Threat to Philippine peace talks
Updated
The Philippines' largest Muslim rebel group has threatened to pull out of peace talks with Manila.
The Moro Islamic Liberation front made the threat because the government cancelled a territorial deal after it was challenged in the Supreme Court.
The chief peace negotiator of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front says the rebels would only go back to the negotiating table if the government revived and signed the agreement expanding an autonomous Muslim region in the south of the Catholic-majority nation.
The rebel group has been in talks with Manila since 1997 to end nearly 40 years of conflict that has killed 120,000 people.
