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Police practice raids with “Go bags” for the controversial Philippine Nobel laureate

LAGMAN2 months ago06 mins

In her fight for press freedom in the Philippines, Nobel laureate Maria Ressa told AFP that she keeps a prison “go bag,” bundles of cash for bail, and plays out police raid scenarios with her staff. The Rappler editor was cleared on all four tax evasion allegations on Wednesday, but she said she is still…

The death toll from a major earthquake in the northern Philippines rose to 10 Friday after another four bodies were found in rubble

LAGMAN8 months ago02 mins

Authorities said, as aftershocks continued to rock the mountainous region. Rescuers in the town of Luba in the hardest hit province of Abra retrieved the remains of the men on a section of road that was buried by a landslide during Wednesday’s 7.0-magnitude quake, the provincial civil defence office told AFP. Landslides and collapsing structures…