Philippines seeks removal of exiled communist from U.S. terrorist list

The Philippines wants U.S. President Donald Trump to remove the exiled leader of Philippine communists from a U.S. terrorist list to enable him to come home for peace talks, government negotiators said on Wednesday. Maoist-led rebels have waged an insurgency against Philippine governments for nearly five decades and at least 40,000 people have been killed. Jose Maria Sison, the founder and leader of the Communist Party of the Philippines, has lived in the Netherlands for three decades.