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NPA formation in Davao Oriental (FILE PHOTO/davaotoday.com)

NPA on Mayor Sara’s peace offer: NDF still the negotiating entity

The New People’s Army in Southern Mindanao emphasized that although it welcomed the talks with Mayor Sara Duterte, it stands by the national leadership of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines as the negotiating entity in the peace process.

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Read more about the article Pleading for mercy: Solons file House reso as calls mount to spare OFW on death row

Pleading for mercy: Solons file House reso as calls mount to spare OFW on death row

Gabriela Women’s partylist Rep. Emmi De Jesus and Arlene Brosas filed House Resolution 829 on Wednesday, urging President Rodrigo Duterte to seek executive clemency ?from the ?United Arab Emirates government ?for an overseas Filipino worker from General Santos City who is facing an execution.

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Read more about the article ?’Barbaric, un-Islamic?’: Mindanao solons? hit? ?A?bu Sayyaf’s? ?beheading of German hostage 
Rep. Ruby Sahali, chairperson of the Special Committee on Peace, Reconciliation and Unity during the second round of the formal talks between the government and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines in Oslo, Norway last October 2016. Beside her is House Deputy Speaker Bai Sandra Sema. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)

?’Barbaric, un-Islamic?’: Mindanao solons? hit? ?A?bu Sayyaf’s? ?beheading of German hostage 

Moro lawmakers on Wednesday condemned ??as "barbaric" and “un-Islamic" the Abu Sayyaf Group's beheading of 70-year old German national Jurgen Kantner?.

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Read more about the article Army welcomes Mayor Sara Duterte’s talks with NPA
New People's Army guerillas gather in Paquibato district in Davao City on Monday, Dec. 26, 2016 for the celebration of the Communist Party of the Philippines' 48th founding anniversary. (Earl O. Condeza/davaotoday.com)

Army welcomes Mayor Sara Duterte’s talks with NPA

A government anti-terrorist unit here said it welcomed the upcoming talks of Mayor Sara Duterte and the New People's Army, armed-wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines.

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