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Grieving relatives yesterday received the bodies of 10 out of 16 Filipinos who perished a week ago in an accident at the Dubai Drydocks. "I waited more than a year for my husband to return from work.

The highest incidence of deaths of journalists in the past 20 years was recorded in the Philippines.

Detained Moro leader Nur Misuari affirmed he is still the official chairman of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), which had forged a pro-autonomy peace settlement with the government in 1996.

About 300 indigenous people in Central Luzon held an indefinite camp-out in front of the regional office of the Commission on Human Rights in San Fernando, Pampanga, central Luzon, to demand the immediate dismantling of the U.S.-Philippine military detachments in their tribal towns.

The Moro Islamic Liberation Front yesterday issued shoot-to-kill orders against the Pentagon kidnap gang and other groups that kidnap for ransom.

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's popularity rating has declined in the capital Metro Manila and the rest of Luzon, but there is no sign of a sympathy swing to the opposition, according to an independent nationwide poll released yesterday.

About 100 Filipino leftists and a sprinkling of Arabs picketed the Israeli embassy here for a second day yesterday, demanding the Israeli army withdraw from occupied Palestinian towns.

The Filipino elderly, now numbering about 4.5 million, and projected to grow to an estimated 14.5 million by year 2020, is the most neglected sector in Philippine society.

Another war escalates in Southern Philippines, yet only this one is an undeclared military attack in predominantly Muslim southern Sulu province, which has forcibly displaced 5,256 Muslims.

A lawyer representing Nur Misuari, the imprisoned former governor of the Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao, said he wanted a Muslim judge from the southern Philippines to handle the rebellion charges brought against Misuari.

A member of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) peace panel has urged the government to let the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) take care of former Moro leader Nur Misuari.

It has been more than a century since the United States went on a campaign to colonise the Philippines in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War.