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Soldiers with machine guns guarded the sidewalks and police yelled at residents who tried to leave their homes Sunday, hours after officers battled bomb-tossing assailants in the second daring attack in a week in China’s restive Muslim territory.
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In this photo release by the Office of the Press Secretary-News and Information Bureau (OPS-NIB), President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, right, comforts a victim’s relative from Thursday’s bombing during her visit Friday, Dec. 19, 2008, in Iligan City in...
