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Duterte rules out Christmas truce with communist rebels

by Jim Gomez
| December 7, 2020 9:21 PM

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine president has ruled out any cease-fire or resumption of long-stalled peace talks with communist guerrillas and renewed a vow to destroy the insurgents in his last two years in office.

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