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Supreme Court approves Poe's run for Philippine presidency

​The Philippines’ Supreme Court gave the go-ahead Tuesday for leading presidential candidate Grace Poe to run in May elections, removing a major obstacle in her bid to become the country’s third female leader.

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Philippine poll body bars female senator to run for president

The Philippine Commission on Elections (Comelec) en banc has upheld the disqualification of a female senator to run for president in the 2016 elections, a poll official said Wednesday.