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Read more about the article Baby killed by bullet was scheduled for vaccine shots
Rural health workers visit the wake of a 5-month old Rex June Laride who was killed in a police operation in Tubod, Lanao del Norte. The baby was killed with his father, Bebino and his mother, Virginia when police were supposed to serve a warrant of arrest against Junel Laride, Bebino's brother. (Divina M. Suson/davaotoday.com)

Baby killed by bullet was scheduled for vaccine shots

It was supposed to be his follow-up vaccine, but health workers in this town visited Baby Rex June Laride in his wake instead. He was killed in a bloody police operation, 4 am in the morning on September 11, at their residence in Barangay Taguranao here.

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Read more about the article ‘Hero of Cordillera’: Political prisoner dies under Duterte admin
Photo taken from KARAPATAN Alliance for the Advancement of People's Rights' Facebook page

‘Hero of Cordillera’: Political prisoner dies under Duterte admin

An aging, and sick political prisoner died at ?the ?Kalinga Provincial Hospital on Wednesday night as a human rights group blamed the Duterte administration for continuously denying the release of all political prisoners across the country.

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Read more about the article Clipping CHR’s teeth: what’s at stake?
A man stands before the Commission on Human Rights office in Davao City, calling the agency to probe into killings of slain and detained farmers from Compostela Valley. (File photo / davaotoda.com)

Clipping CHR’s teeth: what’s at stake?

DAVAO CITY, Philippines – The P1,000 fund allotted by the House of Representatives to the Commission on Human Rights for 2018 will not help the committee in performing its mandate…

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Read more about the article Duterte called a ‘turncoat’ as US deploys drone in Marawi
The Gray Eagle (General Atomics MQ-1C Unmanned Aircraft System) can be armed with four precision-guided Hellfire missiles to attack and destroy targets on the ground. (Photo from the US Embassy in Manila)

Duterte called a ‘turncoat’ as US deploys drone in Marawi

DAVAO CITY, Philippines—Lawmakers criticized President Duterte for his seemingly inconsistent stand against the United States’ colonial atrocities, saying the deployment of a US combat drone in Mindanao does not sit…

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