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Debris are scattered on the floor of a damaged store a day after a strong quake struck in Digos, Davao del Sur province, southern Philippines Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019. A powerful and shallow earthquake hit several southern Philippine provinces Wednesday night injuring some people in collapsed houses and prompting thousands to scramble out of homes, shopping malls and a hospital in panic, officials and news reports said. (AP Photo)

Landslide, building damage from Philippine quake kills 5

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Debris is scattered on the floor of a damaged building in Digos, Davao del Sur province, southern Philippines on Wednesday Oct. 16, 2019. A powerful and shallow earthquake hit several southern Philippine provinces Wednesday night injuring some people in collapsed houses and prompting thousands to scramble out of homes, shopping malls and a hospital in panic, officials and news reports said. (AP Photo/Romell Bacongco)

Strong quake leaves 1 dead, dozens injured in Philippines

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FILE - In this Nov. 20, 2019, file photo, students burn a Chinese flag as they protest against the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping outside the Presidential palace in Manila, Philippines. The Philippine foreign secretary has ordered via Twitter the filing of a diplomatic protest against China after Chinese coast guard ships reportedly strayed near a Philippine-occupied shoal in the disputed South China Sea. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)

Philippine official tweets order for new protest vs China

By JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

Remains of WWII Army airman to be interred in Michigan

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Duterte flies to Russia for 2nd time to meet ‘idol’ Putin

By JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

7 dead, 14 rescued as dragon boat capsizes in Philippines

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Philippines declares new polio outbreak after 19 years

By JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 28, 2013, file photo, Taiwanese investigators ride a rubber boat as they inspect a ship involved in the alleged shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman while they continue their probe in Manila, Philippines. A Philippine court found eight Filipino coast guard personnel guilty Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019 of conspiring to shoot and kill a Taiwanese fisherman in a 2013 incident at sea that strained ties between the neighboring nations. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)

Filipino coast guard men convicted in Taiwan fisherman death

By JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

More than 320 Chinese arrested in Philippines

By JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the Philippine Red Cross, Red Cross volunteers retrieve the bodies of victims following a road accident Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019, in a remote village in the Tboli township, South Cotabato in the southern Philippine. At least 15 people were killed and several others injured when a truck's brakes apparently failed and plummeted down a ravine. (Philippine Red Cross, South Cotabato Chapter Via AP)

20 dead as truck falls off cliff in southern Philippines

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Office employees, some wearing hard hats, gather in the open as they file out of their building following a magnitude 5.5 that rocked some areas of the country's north, including in the capital, that also briefly disrupted train services Friday, Sept. 13, 2019 in Manila, Philippines. The Philippine Institute of Seismology and Volcanology says Friday's quake was centered about 40 kilometers northeast of the coastal town of Burdeos in northeastern Quezon province and was caused by movement in a local fault at a shallow depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles). There were no immediate reports of injuries or damages. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Quake sends people rushing out of buildings in Philippines

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In this Jan. 27, 2019 photo, two boys play by the shore at a beach resort in Talustusan on Biliran Island in the central Philippines. Since Decmeber 2018, the small village has been rocked by controversy after about 20 boys and men, including these two, accused their Catholic parish priest Father Pius Hendricks of years of alleged sexually abuse. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

US priest accused of abusing boys for decades in Philippines

By TIM SULLIVAN - Associated Press

Suicide bomber dies in Philippines; no other casualties

By JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

New Zealand couple among dead in Philippine lightplane crash

By JIM GOMEZ and NICK PERRY - Associated Press

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, meet at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019. (How Hwee Young/Pool Photo via AP)

China tells Philippines it won’t recognize ruling on sea row

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Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks to Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte (not pictured) during their meeting at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019. (How Hwee Young/Pool Photo via AP)

Duterte in China amid expectation he’ll raise sea disputes

By YANAN WANG and JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

In this photo provided by Philippine Coast Guard in Manila, rescued passengers of the ill-fated M/V Lite Ferry 16, are attended to by the coast guard rescuers and crew of responding vessels, on a ferry which responded to the incident, following an overnight ferry fire Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2019, off Dapitan city in Zamboanga del Norte province in southern Philippines. (Philippine Coast Guard via AP)

245 rescued from burning ferry in Philippine waters, 3 dead

By JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

A man struggles with his umbrella against powerful gusts of wind generated by typhoon Ineng in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, Aug. 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)

2 dead as storm triggers landslides, hits south China coast

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FILE - In this May 15, 2017, file photo, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping pose for photographers prior to their bilateral meeting held on the sidelines of the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Duterte is preparing to make his fifth visit to China later this month during which he says he will finally raise the result of the 2016 Hague arbitration on China’s South China Sea claims amid a new spike in tensions. (Etienne Oliveau/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Recent developments surrounding the South China Sea

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 11, 201, file photo, Philippine Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana attends ASEAN defense ministers meeting in Bangkok, Thailand. Lorenzana has asked Beijing to explain the activities of Chinese research vessels and warships in what the Philippines claims as its waters. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit, File)

Recent developments surrounding the South China Sea

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN - Associated Press