A Filipino fisherman who fell ill while trying to rescue a colleague after he was overcome by fumes died in hospital yesterday morning.

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A funeral procession for eight journalists among 57 people killed in the Philippines' worst political violence was showered with flowers today, as security forces confiscated an entire armoury from a powerful clan suspected in the massacre.

A leading member of a powerful political clan was arrested today accused of leading the Philippines election massacre.

A FERRY carrying nearly 1,000 passengers sank in the southern Philippines yesterday, leaving at least nine people dead and more than 30 missing.

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A bomb explosion rocked a southern Philippine public market today, killing at least three people and wounding 20 others, police said, as officials warned that Muslim militants may try to disrupt this weekend’s Asian regional summit.

JAPANESE diplomats are investigating an astonishing claim that two former Japanese soldiers have been hiding in the mountains of the southern Philippines since World War Two.

The death toll in a market bomb blast in the Philippines has risen to 13, with 52 injured.

Eleven people were killed and nearly 30 others injured today when a powerful explosion rocked a market packed with Christmas shoppers in the southern Philippines.

A bomb exploded today at a crowded market, killing at least 13 people, in the latest deadly attack in the southern Philippines, officials said.

Two people have died and at least 50 others are injured after a grenade attack during Labour Day celebrations in the southern Philippines today.

The Philippine Government has declared a state of emergency in the southern city of General Santos, where a series of bombings yesterday killed at least 14 people and injured 69 others.

At least 12 people died and 27 were injured today when a bomb exploded at a busy department store in the southern Philippines city of General Santos, police said.

At least seven people have been killed when a bomb exploded at a department store in General Santos, in the Philippines.

An Indonesian man who allegedly planned a series of bombings that killed 22 people in the Philippines nearly 16 months ago today pleaded guilty to illegal possession of explosives.

The death toll from a powerful earthquake in the southern Philippines rose to 10 today.

At least four people were killed and 15 injured as a strong earthquake rocked the southern Philippines early today, destroying buildings and cutting off electricity, officials said.

As the Philippines Government stepped up its battle with Muslim rebel hostage-takers today, the military said it found two bodies in guerrilla territory, but neither belonged to the American captive the insurgents claim to have beheaded.