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Troops rescue farmers from abductors

Muslims told to be ready for self-rule

Raid on suspected Mindanao dens in vain

Air Force pilots rescue soldiers

MILF gunmen kidnap trader for helping troops

MILF warns government

Peacekeepers will stay in Iraq says Manila

Nine Filipino trekkers rescued

Mass burial of nameless victims

Soldiers rescued before dawn yesterday a dentist and his nephew after a shootout with their abductors who are believed to be Abu Sayyaf militants in the southern Philippine island of Sulu, officials said.

Escaped hostage recants statement

Philippine security officials yesterday said they were close to re-arresting escaped Inodnesian militant Fathur Rohman Al Ghozi, adding they had received vital information from Omar Opik Lasal, the Abu Sayyaf member who had escaped with him from a cell in Quezon City on July 14, and who was recaptured on Wednesday.