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There is something terribly wrong in Beirut, Lebanon. Female migrant domestic workers are apparently killing themselves in droves, at least one per week, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW). 6 in October alone; and there are plenty more who are injured.
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The Philippines placed two southern provinces and a city under emergency rule on Tuesday after gunmen killed 46 people in a brutal election-related massacre that has...
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The wife of a candidate for governor and about 30 others were abducted Monday morning in the southern Philippines — with at least 21 of them later killed, army...
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At least five people have died in a shooting incident in the Northern Mariana Islands in the Pacific.
The gunman killed four local people in the main island of Saipan,...
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Communist rebels killed 12 security forces when they responded to an attack on a logging company in the southern Philippines, the military said Friday. At least one...
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Muslim militants beheaded a school principal on a remote southern island in the Philippines after holding him for ransom for three weeks, a marine general said on...
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I know I should be attending more to my car repairs and house repainting (I was a victim, too, of the recent massive flooding of Metro Manila, thanks to Cyclone...
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Rescuers struggled through mud and pounding rain Friday to clear mountain roads and retrieve more than 160 dead from dozens of landslides that buried villages and cut...
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A powerful typhoon Saturday battered extreme northern Philippines with forceful winds and heavy rains, but spared the capital and surrounding areas still recovering...
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Victims of floods in the Philippines trudged through ankle-deep sludge to crowded relief centres in search of scarce food and clean water today, as the government...
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Rescuers pulled more bodies from swollen rivers and debris-strewn streets Tuesday, pushing the toll from flooding in the northern Philippines to more than 284 dead or...
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Passengers leapt into the dark sea and parents dropped children into life rafts when a ferry carrying nearly 1,000 people capsized in the middle of the night in the...
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The global effects of recession have resulted to numerous setbacks worldwide. Conflicts among nations, particularly the war against terrorism, worsen the situation....
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The fighting was sparked by military raids on Abu Sayyaf militant training camps in the villages of Silangkum and Baguindan on the southern island province of Basilan,...
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Three French tourists died when their vehicle was swept into the water; two local tourist guides also died when they tried to rescue them, she said.
Heavy rain...
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Ex-president of Philippines and global icon of democracy Miss Corazon Aquino died on Saturday (August 01, 2009) at the age of 76. She had been suffering from colon...
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She passed away 8 hours ago, after a 16-month battle with colon cancer which doctors found a week ago to have spread to her liver.
I don’t wish to remember Cory on...
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Some men marry for love, other for the men, and then there are the romantic type who marry for the kidney.
A Saudi man falls in that third category. The Philippines...
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In Jack Balkin’s Cultural Software: A Theory of Ideology, memes are said to be the foundation of ideological thought, and that they form the cultural ideas behind...
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Two separate blasts rocked the restive southern Philippines and killed six civilians Tuesday morning, bringing the death toll to 12 in bombings there over the past...
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The Uighurs are an ethnic group composed mostly of Muslim people who want their territory, the Xinjiang province in western China, to become independent. In their claim...
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The former military ruler of Uruguay, Gregorio Alvarez, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for murder and human rights violations.
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More than one million people, the majority of them women and children, are smuggled across international borders to work in near slavery every year, the US state...
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As she strolls through a park near her temporary home, Shen Lixiu glances warily at passers-by who may be listening in on her conversation.
The 53-year-old mother of...
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The global economic downturn has aggravated human rights violations and distracted attention from abuses, Amnesty International said on Thursday.
The world faced a...
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What kind of person willfully harms another human being? Subjects them to such unimaginable pain and torture for the simple fact they happen to be different. A...
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60 years down the line and every human rights celebration across the globe is a reminder that atrocities committed by man against man have not known any bounds,...
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The U.S. arms trade is booming — sales reached $32 billion last year — and more than half of the purchasers in the developing world are either undemocratic...
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I thank all of you for giving me the opportunity to face you today to tell my story. Your microphones, voice recorders, and cameras make me realize that this story will...
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I’m still trying to figure out what possessed the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to bestow upon China the honour of hosting the 2008 Olympic Games. A...
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The national Police University is expected soon in India to teach police officers to maintain some important matters while on duties such as internal security matters,...
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