A powerful explosion ripped through a Catholic mass in the southern Philippines this morning. Four people were killed and 40 people were left injured. The explosion took place during the morning mass that was underway in a state-run University gymnasium.

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Earthquakes were still happening at the Taal volcano, which shot giant clouds of ash miles into the air on Jan. 12, and levels of the gas were rising, a sign of magma "recharging" and "resupplying" beneath it, a Philippine vulcanologist said.

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Two men were killed and at least 32 others wounded Monday after a bomb went off outside a shopping mall in the southern Philippine city of Cotabato, police said.

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