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Philippine Marines pay tribute to the flag-draped coffins of seven fellow marines who were killed Saturday in a clash with Abu Sayyaf militants in Jolo, southern Philippines, during the wake at the Philippine Marines headquarters at Fort Bonifacio in Taguig city, east of Manila, Philippines Monday, May 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
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A mushroom of volcanic ash shoots up into the sky from Mount Mayon, one of the Philippines' most active volcanoes, after daybreak as seen from Legazpi city in Albay province, about 285 miles southeast of Manila, on Tuesday, May 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology)
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Protesters display placards as they picket the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG), a government body tasked with recovering alleged ill-gotten wealth of the late deposed strongman Ferdinand Marcos, on Monday, April 8, 2013, at Mandaluyong, Philippines, northeast of Manila. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
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** FILE ** In this Jan. 22, 2013, photo released by the Philippine Coast Guard, coast guard divers approach the USS Guardian, a U.S. Navy minesweeper, to assess the situation after it ran aground last week off Tubbataha Reef, a World Heritage Site in the Sulu Sea, 640 kilometers (400 miles) southwest of Manila, Philippines. (AP Photo/Philippine Coast Guard)
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The new Chinese passport outlines all of the South China Sea as part of China’s territorial waters. The Philippines has protested China’s depiction of its claims. The potentially oil- and gas-rich waters also are claimed by the Philippines, Vietnam, Taiwan, Brunei and Malaysia. (Associated Press)
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From left, Thein Sein, president of Myanmar; Benigno Aquino III, president of the Philippines; Lee Hsien Loong, prime minister of Singapore; Yingluck Shinawatra, prime minister of Thailand; Nguyen Tan Dung, prime minister of Vietnam; and Hun Sen, prime minister of Cambodia, join hands after a signing ceremony of adoption of the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration during a summit for the association in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Sunday. (Associated Press)
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Philippine President Benigno Aquino III said Sunday “this framework agreement paves the way for final and enduring peace in Mindanao,” the southern Philippine region that is the homeland of the country’s Muslims. (Associated Press)
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Branded high-heel shoes once worn by flamboyant former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos sit among equally damaged shoes and bags in a section of the National Museum in Manila on Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
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Renato Solidum, head of the Philippine seismology agency, points Aug. 31, 2012, during a press conference in suburban Quezon city, north of Manila, to an area on a Philippine map where the epicenter of a 7.6-magnitude earthquake happened that day. (Associated Press)
