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Exploratory talks with NDF fail

The Philippines and Australia are set to sign a security co-operation agreement tomorrow that will provide for joint military training exercises and combating terrorism, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) yesterday said.

Biazon calls for 40,000 reservists to fight rebels

President Gloria Arroyo yesterday banned the deployment of Filipino maids to Hong Kong, in protest over that government's "unfair and unjust" move to reduce the wages of its 200,000 foreign domestic helpers.

After two years in detention, former actor and mayor of San Juan town, Jose 'Jinggoy' Estrada, son of deposed president Joseph Estrada and co-accused in a P4.1-billion ($75.9 million) plunder case, called himself "a free man" again after being granted bail.

Prosecutors have filed murder charges against the leader of the country's biggest Muslim rebel group and 150 of his fighters over a deadly bombing at Davao airport, officials said yesterday.

Police disperse anti-war rallies

A local Davao City court has issued arrest warrants against Hashim Salamat, chairman of the southern Philippine-based secessionist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), three other top MILF officials and 144 MILF activists in connection with the Davao International Airport bombing on March 4 that killed at least 21 and wounded 134.