A powerful earthquake in mountainous central Italy knocked down whole blocks of buildings early Monday as residents slept, killing more than 150 people in the country’s deadliest quake in nearly three decades. Tens of thousands were homeless and 1,500 were injured.
Premier Silvio Berlusconi, speaking by telephone with one of the TV networks of his media empire, said more than 150 people were dead and more
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Basilan, Philippines – Armed men attacked a truck carrying coconut plantation workers in Lantawan, Killing 3 and wounding several others.
Investigators are still trying to determine if the attack was sparked by a local feud or by Abu Sayyaf bandits, who are reportedly active in the area.
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At least 10 people were arrested and investigated since the declaration of the state of emergency in Sulu by Gov. Abdusakur Tan, where the Abu Sayyaf bandits are still holding captive two workers of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
However, the National Police identified seven of those arrested, three of them policemen, two barangay captains and two civilians.
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John Solecki, the head of the UN refugee agency’s office in the southwestern province of Baluchistan, was found on Saturday night by the side of a road near Quetta, the provincial capital, with his hands and feet bound, pleading: “Help me, help me!”
Ethnic Baluch separatists had earlier claimed responsibility for the abduction and at one point threatened to kill Mr Solecki — the highest-profile Westerner
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Sen. Richard Gordon said Abu Sayyaf bandits are demanding a military pullout in some parts of Sulu before they start talks on the fate of the two International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) workers who remain in captivity.
Gordon, who is also chairman of the Philippine National Red Cross, said he spoke to Albader Parad after the release of ICRC staffer Mary Jean Lacaba, and the kidnappers were demanding that so
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Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has listed the Philippines in the list of “uncooperative tax havens”, other countries named are Uruguay, Costa Rica and the Malaysian territory of Labuan as the worst offenders, saying they had refused to adopt new rules on financial openness.
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After an apology the Philippine government is now looking to remove Chip tsao from BI (bureau of Immigration) blacklist. Accordingly Tsao was placed under the immigration blacklist for being an undesirable alien in connection with his March 27 article “The War at Home.”
Tsao called the Philippines a “nation of servants” not worthy of claiming the Spratly Islands from China, citing the fact that Hong Kong e
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According to scientists. One Antarctic ice shelf has disappeared, this means the glaciers are melting faster than anyone predicted due to climate change.
They said the Wordie Ice Shelf, which had been disintegrating since the 1960s, is gone and the northern part of the Larsen Ice Shelf no longer exists. More than 3,200 square miles (8,300 square km) have broken off from the Larsen shelf since 1986.
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A North Korean rocket appears to have passed over Japan, the Japanese government said on Sunday, having dropped booster stages to the east and west of the country.
“The projectile launched from North Korea today appears to have passed over towards the Pacific,” the prime minister’s office said in a statement.
North Korea has said it was putting a satellite into space and but regional powers say Py
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This article was written by a chinese columnist Chip Tsao who called the Philippines a “nation of servants.”, This has enraged Filipinos all over the world for his racial slur.
The Russians sank a Hong Kong freighter last month, killing the seven Chinese seamen onboard. We can live with that-—Lenin and Stalin were once the ideological mentors of all Chinese people. The Japanese planted a flag on Diàoyú Isla
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Ahron Villena: Ahron Villena (born Roche Ahron Villena in 1987 in Brgy. San Jose Sico, Batangas City, Province of Batangas, Philippines) is a Filipino actor. He is currentl...
Teresita de Castro: On October 12, 2007, the Sandiganbayan special division headed by Presiding Justice Teresita de Castro convicted ousted President Joseph Estrada for the crime o...
