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Manny Pacquiao shifts from sports to politics

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Boxing star Manny Pacquiao scored a big political win on Thursday as he was elected into the Philippines senate.

The WBO world welterweight champion was declared among 12 new members of the upper house of Congress by the country's elections commission.

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