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Residents ride a military truck as they evacuate to safer grounds in preparation for the coming of Typhoon Kammuri in Legazpi, Albay province, southeast of Manila, Philippines on Monday Dec. 2, 2109. The Philippines' main island, including the national capital, Manila, is under a tropical cyclone warning for a typhoon forecast to hit Monday night into Tuesday. (AP Photo)

Powerful typhoon leaves at least 4 dead in Philippines

By JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

Residents evacuate their area in preparation for the coming of Typhoon Kammuri in Legazpi, Albay province, southeast of Manila, Philippines on Monday Dec. 2, 2109. The Philippines' main island, including the national capital, Manila, is under a tropical cyclone warning for a typhoon forecast to hit Monday night into Tuesday. (AP Photo)

Powerful typhoon nears Philippines, forcing evacuations

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Approaching storm, snafus cast pall on Southeast Asian Games

By AARON FAVILA and TATAN SYUFLANA - Associated Press

Philippines seizes huge drugs stash, arrests Chinese

By JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

Rescuers search for victims after a budget hotel which is undergoing demolition, collapsed Monday, Sept. 23, 2019, in Manila, Philippines. Rescue efforts are still ongoing to free another victim after one of the workers was retrieve after almost six hours following the incident, according to Manila Mayor Francisco &quot;Isko Moreno&quot; Domagoso. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

2 killed in collapse of Manila hotel being demolished

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FILE - In this Aug. 27, 2016, file photo, Philippine Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales, one of the Ramon Magsaysay awardees for this year, stresses a point during a news conference in Manila, Philippines. Carpio- Morales, who accused Chinese President Xi Jinping of crimes against humanity before the International Criminal Court, says she has been barred for hours from entering Hong Kong for unspecified reasons. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez, File)

Ex-Philippine judge says she was held at Hong Kong airport

By JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

Rescuers gesture to clear the way following the discovery of another survivor in Monday's magnitude 6.1 earthquake that caused the collapse of a commercial building in Porac township, Pampanga province north of Manila, Philippines Tuesday, April 23, 2019. A strong earthquake struck the northern Philippines Monday trapping some people in a collapsed building, damaged an airport terminal and knocked out power in at least one province, officials said. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Philippine police summon owner of quake collapsed building

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Philippine president threatens to return garbage to Canada

By JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

Rescuers carry an earthquake survivor after being pulled out from the rubble of a commercial building following Monday's 6.1 magnitude earthquake in Porac township, Pampanga province, north of Manila, Philippines, Tuesday, April 23, 2019. The strong earthquake struck the northern Philippines Monday trapping some people in a collapsed building, damaged an airport terminal and knocked out power in at least one province, officials said. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Powerful quake hits Philippines, day after deadly temblor

By Bullit Marquez - Associated Press

A staff of the Philippine Department of Environment and Natural Resources shows one of the 757 Tarantulas kept inside plastic containers at their office in metropolitan Manila, Philippines on Wednesday, April 3, 2019. Philippine Customs District Collector Carmelita Talusan said in a statement that 757 live Tarantulas, with an estimated value of P310,000 (about US$6,000), were seized by customs agents at Manila's airport last April 1. The endangered wildlife species were found concealed in gift-wrapped oatmeal and cookie boxes and was shipped from Poland. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Creepy cargo: Philippines seizes 757 tarantulas from Poland

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U.S. Vice Adm. Phillip Sawyer, commander of the U.S. Navy's Seventh Fleet, gestures during an interview with a select group of journalists aboard the USS Blue Ridge, the U.S. 7th Fleet Flagship, while docked at Manila South Harbor in Manila, Philippines Monday, March 18, 2019. Sawyer told reporters in Manila Monday that Washington protested that "unprofessional behavior" by the Chinese ship, which maneuvered very close to the USS Decatur as the latter sailed closely by a Chinese-occupied island in the Spratlys in late September. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

U.S. Navy won’t alter sail-bys at sea despite China maneuver

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo strongly felt the need for patience and deeper, working-level talks with the North Koreans, but he didn't skip a beat in backing up President Trump over his decision to walk away from the table with Kim Jong-un when denuclearization talks in Vietnam hit a snag. (Associated Press/File)

Mike Pompeo’s influence with Donald Trump at State Department questioned

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Abdullah Macapaar, center, who uses the nom de guerre Commander Bravo, talks with Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana, left, and Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Carlito Galvez following oath-taking ceremony for the creation of the Bangsamoro Transition Authority or BTA at the Presidential Palace in Manila, Philippines Friday, Feb. 22, 2019. The Muslim rebels will serve as administrators of a new Muslim autonomous region in a delicate milestone to settle one of Asia's longest-raging rebellions. Several commanders, including Commander Bravo, long wanted for deadly attacks were given safety passes to be able to travel to Manila and join the ceremony.(AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Philippine Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana wants review of 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (right) met with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday for private talks on a range of subjects, including "ways to improve cooperation on regional security and counterterrorism," according to the State Department. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

China rivalry hovers over Mike Pompeo’s Manila stop

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, left, greets U.S. State Secretary Mike Pompeo upon arrival at Villamor Air Base in suburban Pasay city southeast of Manila, Philippines, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019. Pompeo, who joined U.S. President Donald Trump in the second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Vietnam, is here for talks on the two countries' relations as well as the mutual defense treaty. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez, POOL)

Pompeo: US worried over Chinese moves threatening navigation

By JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, Sept. 12, 2014, file photo, a local health worker administers a vaccine to a baby at a local health center at the financial district of Makati, east of Manila, Philippines. The World Health Organization and the British government are working with the Philippine Department of Health, UNICEF and a host of other partners to help deliver a month-long campaign to immunize children against Measles, Rubella, commonly known as German measles and Polio which aims to immunize 13 million children nationwide. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez, File)

Philippines says 136 people have died in measles outbreak

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FILE - In this March 31, 2016, file photo provided by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, from left; Second Secretary of the Bangladesh Embassy in Manila Probash Lamarong, Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) Director Julia Bacay-Abad and AMLC Member Emmanuel Dooc opens a case containing US dollars that was returned by Chinese casino junket operator Kam Sin Wong to Bangladesh and Philippine AMLC officials in Manila, Philippines. Bangladesh's central bank has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against Philippine private bank over the heist of $81 million from Bangladesh Bank's account with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The head of Bangladesh Bank's Finance Intelligence Unit confirmed the lawsuit against the Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. (Jason Arlan Raval/Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas via AP)

Bangladesh sues Manila-based bank in NY over heist

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Filipino Roman Catholic devotees raise their hands in prayer as the image of the Black Nazarene is readied for a raucous procession to celebrate its feast day Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019, in Manila, Philippines. Tens of thousands of mostly barefoot Filipino Catholics joined the annual procession of a centuries-old statue of Jesus Christ to celebrate the Feast of the Black Nazarene which usually ends before dawn the next day. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Huge crowd of Filipino Catholics gathers amid terror fears

By JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Rampage’ by James M. Scott

By Thomas W. Schaaf Sr.

FILE - In this July 23, 2018, file photo, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte gestures during his third State of the Nation Address at the House of Representatives in Quezon city, Philippines. Duterte put the corruption-plagued Bureau of Customs temporarily under military control amid a scandal after two huge shipments of illegal drugs reportedly slipped past through the port of Manila. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)

Duterte puts Customs under military control, citing drugs

By JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press