Balangiga bells, seized by US forces as trophies after 1901 massacre, finally returned to Philippines
(WorldNews France)

Church bells seized from the Philippines by the US as war trophies over a century ago were returned on Tuesday, in a bid to turn the page on a difficult chapter between the historical allies. Returning the three so-called Balangiga bells meets a decades-old demand from the former US colony at a time when the two nations’ ties have been rattled by President Rodrigo Duterte’s pivot to China. An American military plane delivered the bells to a Manila airfield, where Philippine and......