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Philippines still confident U.N. peacekeepers will be released from Syria

The Philippines still expects its 21 UN peacekeepers held hostage in the Golan Heights to be freed, despite shelling by Syrian forces that scuttled a handover, a military spokesman said. A UN convoy that entered the Syrian village of Jamla on Friday to pick up the Filipinos abducted by rebels…