According to reports, Clooney, who filed the case before the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD) on February 26, wanted the UN to act for the release of the incumbent Pampanga representative who is facing a plunder case over the alleged misuse of intelligence funds and electoral sabotage during her presidency.
A popular television and movie actor said that the country's “only hope” in order for it to wade through its problems is if Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte would win as the next elected President.
A group launched a humanitarian campaign Friday to help internally-displaced persons amid a massive military operation in the central Mindanao province of Maguindanao.
The Comission on Elections will conduct a special registration inside the main camp and seat of power of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, which Malacanang hopes to strike a comprehensive political settlement.
To stop the military offensive in Central Mindanao and resume the course of the peace process with the Moro secessionist group, a peace network said President Benigno Aquino III is still the best person to make this happen.