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Cop, Cohort jailed for illegal sale of rifles, pistols
COTABATO CITY (October 13, 2025) — A police team clamped down a patrolman from the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region and a companion after selling to them two assault rifles and three pistols in an entrapment operation in Davao City before dawn Monday, October 13. The suspect, Patrolman Muhammad Sidomar Gando of PRO-BAR’s Regional Mobile
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OPAPRU, Basilan governor embark on peacebuilding projects
COTABATO CITY (October 13, 2025) —- The Office of the Presidential Adviser on Peace, Reconciliation and Unity and the provincial government of Basilan forged on Thursday, October 9, an agreement to jointly embark on two peacebuilding programs in the island province. The now apparently peaceful Basilan is one of the five provinces in the Bangsamoro
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Soldiers sent to tremor-stricken Davao towns for relief works
COTABATO CITY (October 12, 2025) —- The Army’s 10th Infantry Division has mobilized more than a thousand soldiers from its units to assist in emergency response and relief efforts in tremor-stricken towns in Davao Oriental. Major Gen. Allan Hambala, commander of the 10th ID, said on Sunday, October 12, that among the first to respond
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Drug den closed, 3 busted in 2 PDEA-12 operations
COTABATO CITY (October 12, 2025) — Agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-12 shutdown a clandestine drug den and arrested three shabu peddlers in two separate operations within four days. Benjamin Recites III, director of PDEA-12, said on Sunday, October 12, that their agents entrapped last Friday, October 10, two shabu dealers together facilitating pot
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Misuari sympathizes with family of Speaker Balindong
PICONG, Lanao del Sur (October 11, 2025) — The acting chairman of the Moro National Liberation Front — Ustadz Abdulkarim Tan Misuari — visited here last week the family of Bangsamoro Regional Speaker Ali Pangalian Balindong, who died from illness in a hospital in Makati City early on. Misuari, son of MNLF’s founding chairman, Nur
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Suspect in beheading of Teduray chieftain nabbed
COTABATO CITY (October 10, 2025, Friday) — Soldiers arrested and turned over to the police on Friday, October 10, one of the six men who beheaded a Teduray tribal chieftain in Datu Hoffer, Maguindanao del Sur week. Brig. Gen. Edgar Catu, commander of the Army’s 601st Infantry Brigade, and personnel of the Division Public Affairs
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First modern, largest hospital in BARMM opened
Officials launched on Wednesday, October 8, the Bangsamoro Regional Hospital and Medical Center in Datu Hoffer town in Maguindanao del Sur, the first ever largest and well-equipped hospital in the autonomous region. The BRHMC was established by the 80-member parliament of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao via the Bangsamoro Autonomy Act 74 that
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New Bangsamoro town gets ambulance, medical provisions
COTABATO CITY (October 7, 2025) — A newly-created Bangsamoro municipality got on Monday, October 6, a new patient transport vehicle, medical and food supplies for pregnant women and malnourished children from the office of the health minister of the Bangsamoro region. Bangsamoro Health Minister Kadil Sinolinding, Jr. personally turned over on Monday to the mayor