Filipino priests stationed in Italy led by Caritas Internationalis president, Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle, on Thursday offered a Mass for Marawi City residents amid the continuing violence in the Lanao del Sur capital.

The two chambers of Congress will hold separate closed-door briefings with executive and security officials because there is no need for them to approve President Rodrigo Duterte’s declaration of martial law in Mindanao, leaders of the House of Representatives said.

(UPDATE 3 - 11:16 p.m.) Residents of this besieged city unable to evacuate earlier have hunkered down, bracing for the worst, as government security forces faced the difficult task of flushing out members of the Maute terror group who continued to fire at will Thursday morning as if to flaunt their continued presence, three days since hostilities broke out.

Security forces maintained a heavy presence in so-called “places of convergence” in Metro Manila Thursday following President Rodrigo Duterte’s declaration of martial law over Mindanao, where operations are continuing to flush out gunmen of the Maute group from Marawi City.

The opening of classes for public elementary and high schools, including in Mindanao, which is under martial law, will push through as scheduled on June 5, the Department of Education said Thursday.

The declaration of martial law over Mindanao does not mean the automatic suspension of civil rights, not even of the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus, the Department of National Defense said.

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Human rights lawyers helping with the prosecution of the couple who allegedly duped Mary Jane Veloso into becoming a drug mule decried the Court of Appeals injunction on the taking of the Filipina death row convict’s testimony against her recruiters.

A US Navy warship sailed within 12 nautical miles of an artificial island built up by China, US officials said on Wednesday, the first such challenge to Beijing under US President Donald Trump.

Malacanang has formally transmitted the declaration placing Mindanao under martial law to Congress.

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Communist rebels have been ordered to “plan and carry out more tactical offensives across Mindanao and the entire archipelago” in response to President Rodrigo Duterte’s declaration of martial law over the southern island.

Egypt has banned 21 websites, including the main website of Qatar-based al Jazeera television, for "supporting terrorism," state news agency MENA and security sources said on Wednesday.