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Feb. 28 (BBC News) - Islamist militants have attacked a village in the southern Philippines, killing at least 11 people, military officials have said.

BEIJING, Feb. 9 (China Daily) - China has completed construction of 13 permanent facilities - stone tablets and lighthouses - on islands and reefs in the East China Sea, in an effort to clarify its territorial waters' baseline in the oil-rich area.

December 16, 2009 (AFP) - The Philippines announced on Wednesday that one of the co-founders of the Al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf extremist group had been arrested after being detained at Jakarta airport for using a false passport.

MANILA December 3, 2009 (Reuters) - Philippine media groups may ask the United Nations' to intervene in a probe into the massacre of 57 people in a suspected clan feud that has stoked tensions ahead of elections next May, six local journalist groups said on Thursday.

December 2, 2009 (Al Jazeera) - Prosecutors in the Philippines have charged a provincial governor and head of a powerful local clan in connection with last week's politically-linked massacre on the southern island of Mindanao.

November 30, 2009 (Al Jazeera) - Prosecutors in the Philippines have formally filed 25 murder charges against a man accused of leading a election-related massacre on the southern island of Mindanao that outraged the nation.

November 25, 2009 (Al Jazeera) - The lead suspect accused of masterminding the massacre of at least 57 people in the Philippines has turned himself in to police, officials have said.

JAKARTA November 24, 2009 (RIA Novosti) - A state of emergency was declared in parts of the Philippines on Tuesday as 24 bodies were discovered in a shallow grave, bringing the death toll from a politically-motivated massacre on Monday to 46.

MANILA November 23, 2009 (AFP) – Hundreds of extra troops have been deployed in the southern Philippines after gunmen believed linked to a local politician kidnapped and killed at least 22 people, a military spokesman said Tuesday.

MANILA, Philippines November 20, 2009 (AP) – Philippine troops killed a senior commander of al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf militants wanted for kidnappings and bombings amid an ongoing offensive, the military said Friday.