After three years of steady progress in the peace talks between the government of the Philippines and two separate rebel groups, negotiations are now in jeopardy.
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The Philippine government's chief negotiator says peace talks aimed at ending one of the world's longest-running insurgencies are "on the cusp of history."
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A bloody religious clash last month in the central-Burma town of Meikhtila left some 40 people dead and displaced roughly 9,000, leaving Muslim communities living in fear.
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Clashes between ethnic Arakan Buddhists and stateless Rohingya Muslims in western Burma, leaving about 50 dead, are dominating Burmese headlines.
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An ethnic Kachin, Christian woman was gang-raped by the Burmese army at a church in Kachin State, northern Burma, where the insurgent war is still active.
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ON-AND-OFF HOSTILITIES between the Burmese government troops and ethnic rebels threaten the peace negotiation and the parties' recent agreement to cease hostilities.
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An independent inventory and decommissioning of rebel weaponry follows the end of hostilities in one of the world's longest-running Islamist insurgencies.
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A teenage boy kidnapped this summer by Abu Sayyaf guerrillas dashed to freedom while his captors slept.
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A major breakthrough in peace talks could end one of the world's longest-running insurgencies waged by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front against the Philippine state.
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Workers are finishing the Maguindanao Massacre Memorial Shrine in time for the 2nd anniversary of the killings of 58 people, including 33 journalists.
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