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An opposition legislator claimed on Tuesday that the newly found consensus in both chambers of Congress about the campaign to liberalize the 1987 Constitution's economic sections amounted to declaring a "war" on the Charter. Following the Senate's unprecedented reversal on the proposed modification to the Charter, which Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri said was done at the president's request, Representative Edcel Lagman of the Albay, First District, declared that there are now two fronts in the "war" on the Constitution. This is in response to Zubiri's filing of Resolution of Both Houses (RBH) No. 6, which restricts potential constitutional amendments…

The Philippine government's "seemingly broad and unchecked" use of the anti-terrorism statute to target religious leaders and humanitarian workers who have been red-tagged has been brought to the attention of six independent UN human rights experts. This month, special rapporteurs from the United Nations made public a letter they wrote to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on October 10, detailing instances of judicial harassment, red-tagging, and targeted financial sanctions against activists and religious groups "in the name of countering terrorism and terrorist financing." Over the course of the government's counterterrorism activities from 2019 to 2023, which includes the second half of…

At the preliminary inquiry on Tuesday, the policeman who has been identified as the main suspect in the disappearance of beauty queen Catherine Camilon did not appear. Police Major Allan de Castro was unable to visit the Batangas City Hall of Justice on Wednesday due to a fever, according to his legal representative, as GMA Regional TV Balitang Southern Tagalog's Denise Abante reported on Unang Balita. "Atty. Ferdinand Benitez stated that although Major De Castro was unable to attend due to a fever, the counter-affidavit was properly filed." "The next preliminary investigation is scheduled on January 17 at the same…

COTABATO CITY: In an ambush that took place on Wednesday afternoon in a remote area of Barangay Lininding in Munai, Lanao del Norte, gunmen killed two Army intelligence agents. The fatal ambush of the two soldiers from the Army's 51st Infantry Battalion—whose names were withheld pending notification of their families—was independently confirmed to reporters on Thursday by the Lanao del Norte Provincial Police Office and the Munai Municipal Police Station. Their bodies were taken right away to a mortuary by members of the Munai MPS and 51st IB under the command of 1Lt. John Mark Tayaban. The guys, who were…