Philippine President Benigno Aquino urged legislators to pass a draft law aimed at ending a decades-long Muslim revolt and ensuring lasting peace in the southern part of the country, citing the growing threat of global terrorism as one reason to do so. Aquino, who has been struggling to get the law passed before his term ends this year, told lawmakers it would break "the cycle of violence and poverty that has stalled peace and progress" in the southern island of Mindanao, said his spokesman Herminio Coloma.
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