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SEOUL -- Official forecast says Pyongyang will change tack in 2018, emboldened by nuclear advances North Korea is likely to explore the possibility of dialogue with the United States in 2018 as the communist state seeks recognition as a nuclear-armed country, South Korea’s Ministry of Unification said on Tuesday, Dec. 26.
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Malacañang on Monday, Dec. 25, said it continues to rely on “China’s good faith” after a Reuters report said Beijing has “reasonably” expanded its islands in the South China Sea.
Read more: Palace still relying on China’s ‘good faith’ amid reports of island expansion
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The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) denied reports it was engaged in talks with Israel to relocate the Philippine Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, as the United States said it planned to do despite an international outcry.
Read more: DFA denies PH has plan to move embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem
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There was good news days after Tropical Storm “Vinta” (international name: Tembin) devastated swaths of Mindanao.
Read more: Woman survivor swept by floods from Zamboanga to Antique
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With the drug war questioned before the high court, a senator jailed for drug charges, and a former president accused of graft and usurpation, 2017 would not be complete without its hottest legal issues, trials and debates.
Read more: The most controversial cases that stunned the nation in 2017
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Opposition lawmakers who want to stop the year-long extension of martial law in Mindanao don’t know any better than President Rodrigo Duterte about the situation in the region, according to Solicitor General Jose Calida.
Read more: Calida: Petitioners vs martial law extension don’t know Mindanao situation
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“Is he preempting an Ombudsman decision on his corruption case?”
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SAN FRANCISCO -- A San Francisco Bay Area man who survived the infamous 1942 Bataan Death March and symbolized the thousands of unheralded Filipinos who fought alongside American forces during World War II has died. He was 100.
Read more: Death March survivor, symbol of unsung PH fighters, dies at 100
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Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV has made it his life’s mission to make the “murderous” and “corrupt” Duterte family accountable for their actions.
Read more: As his ’life’s mission,’ Trillanes vows to hold Duterte family accountable for acts
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The European Union (EU) has pledged €570,000, or almost P34 million, worth of humanitarian aid for survivors of Tropical Storm “Vinta” (international name: Tembin).
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