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Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, President of the Republic of the Philippines speaks during the 63rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on September 23, 2008. (UPI Photo/Laura Cavanaugh)
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MANILA, Philippines, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Dozens of people have been killed in what Philippines authorities say is election-related violence.
MANILA, Philippines, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo promised Tuesday those behind a political massacre of 46 people would be brought to justice.
MANILA, Philippines, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo ended a freeze on oil prices Monday on her return from an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in Singapore.
CABANATUAN CITY, Philippines, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- Typhoon Parma rolled across Luzon in the Philippine Islands late Saturday with heavy rains and winds gusting above 100 miles per hour, the government reported.
MANILA, Philippines, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- Filipinos will have Wednesday as a holiday to pay their final respects to former President Corazon Aquino, who died last week of colon cancer.
MANILA, Philippines, July 15 (UPI) -- An attorney for a Philippines doctor accused of opening the medical files of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo says she never did it.
WASHINGTON, July 12 (UPI) -- Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will visit President Barack Obama in Washington this month, the White House announced.
MANILA, Philippines, June 13 (UPI) -- Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo plans to leave office as president of the Philippines next year and run for Congress, a close ally in her cabinet said Friday.
MANILA, Philippines, March 20 (UPI) -- While the Philippines government's push to restart peace talks in the southern Mindanao region is being positively received, critics are calling for caution.
MANILA, Philippines, March 4 (UPI) -- Calling peace the foundation for progress, the Philippines' president Wednesday welcomed 18 former rebels into a societal-reintegration program.