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MANILA, Philippines — The city fire marshal of Tuguegarao was ordered relieved Monday following reports that there was no fire safety inspection clearance at the...
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MANILA, Philippines—The Catholic hierarchy in the country should take cue from the statement of Pope Benedict XVI, who said he doesn’t oppose the use of condom to...
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The Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD), a regional federation of organizations of families of the disappeared and human rights advocates...
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A Philippine court has sentenced a father to 14,400 years in prison after he was convicted of the near-daily rape of his teenage daughter over the course of a year.
A...
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Hundreds of squatters in the Philippine capital faced off against authorities Thursday, in a bid to stop the demolition of their makeshift homes to make way for...
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The baby boy born on a flight from the Middle East to the Philippines and abandoned in an airplane trash bag will be put up for adoption if the mother is not found or...
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What kind of mother would leave a newborn baby in the garbage bin of an airplane? I know it happens all the time, all over the world, in many different places, but...
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A powerful family accused of being behind the worst political massacre in the Philippines plotted the killings over dinner, a court has heard.
The witness, a former...
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Philippine President Benigno Aquino said today he takes full responsibility for the outcome of the bus siege that killed eight members of a Hong Kong tour group.
“At...
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Suspected Muslim rebels wearing police and military uniforms detonated bombs and opened fire Tuesday in a southern Philippine town, triggering clashes that killed at...
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The voluntary crucifixions in the northern Philippines were the most extreme displays of religious devotion in this mainly Catholic country, where millions are praying...
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Former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos, bedecked in jade and diamonds, began a grueling campaign for a congressional seat Friday that she hopes will allow her to...
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A group of parents torched a school in the central Philippines after complaining their children weren’t given the food promised by a government program aimed at...
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Jasmin Uy Lababo (The Freeman News) Updated February 25, 2010 12:00 AM
CEBU, Philippines - President Arroyo yesterday ordered the Department of Transportation and...
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I know that listening to someone singing off-key can be extremely painful, especially at a karaoke bar where most people couldn’t sing their way out of a paper...
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The Regional Trial Court has sentenced an ex-policeman to life imprisonment after finding him guilty of selling drugs in 2006.
PO1 John Rey Catiri, 34, was arrested...
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I guess it’s okay for Muslims to proselytize and force or coerce others to convert to Islam, but it’s not okay for Christians to do the same thing. Frankly...
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A passenger ferry sank in the northern Philippines in a second sea disaster in three days. Six bodies, including three children, were recovered and at least 22 people...
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A passenger ferry collided with a fishing boat in the Philippines, killing three people and leaving search and rescue crews combing the water for dozens more who...
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President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has added her voice to the chorus calling on world leaders to reach a substantive and politically binding deal at the UN climate...
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Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo lifted martial law in the country’s south, which she declared after the massacre of 57 people last month, Philippine...
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The private army accused of a civilian massacre in the southern Philippines has killed at least 200 other people, the country’s human rights commissioner said...
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The son of a Philippines clan boss, suspected of the massacre of at least 57 journalists and political activists, turned himself in today, as investigators announced...
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The suspected mastermind of Monday’s massacre in the southern Philippines is the son of a powerful local politician who is also a key local supporter of the...
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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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Rodel Borreta, right, a Filipino crew of the chemical tanker Stolt Strength, receives a hug from his wife Catherine upon arrival Saturday, May 2, 2009 at Manila’s international airport after they were released from captivity by Somali pirates. The ship...
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