Philippines declares holiday truce with Maoist rebels

2009/12/23 00:43:14 @Reuters: World News

MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine security forces will unilaterally suspend army offensives against Maoist-led rebels for 60-hours over Christmas, but will maintain defenses, a senior government official said on Wednesday. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=c08-lQz5vok:IfS4sNqOu1A:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=c08-lQz5vok:IfS4sNqOu1A:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=c08-lQz5vok:IfS4sNqOu1A:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=c08-lQz5vok:IfS4sNqOu1A:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=c08-lQz5vok:IfS4sNqOu1A:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/c08-lQz5vok" height="1" width="1"/
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