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gulfnews.com - Manila: Former president Gloria Arroyo, now a representative of her hometown in Pampanga, central Philippines, and her husband, Jose Miguel "Mike" Arroyo, have approached the Supreme Court to allow them to travel ... |
Sky News Australia - Thailand's Prime Minister has launched a recovery plan to help the country bounce back from weeks of devastating floods. Water is slowly starting to recede in central Thailand, which was one of the hardest hit areas. |
BusinessWorld Online Edition - INITIATIVES aimed at settling the South China Sea issue will be offered by President Benigno SC Aquino III during next week's Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Bali, a senior official yesterday said. |
AFP - SEOUL - Vietnam agreed on Tuesday to seek greater nuclear energy cooperation with South Korea, opening the way for its participation in a project to build atomic power plants in energy-hungry Vietnam. |
Bangkok Post - The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration is making an all-out effort to drain floodwater from the northern outskirts through Khlong Bang Sue in the hope of protecting the heart of Bangkok. |
Inquirer.net - A new witness has come forward to corroborate the initial testimony of a purported henchman who claimed to have plotted the killing of Ramgen Bautista with two of the victim's siblings and five other people. |
Inquirer.net - MAJ. GEN. EMMANUEL BAUTISTA 'We have been fighting too long. Too many have died, including my father.' CONTRIBUTED PHOTO The soldier-son of a general treacherously killed by Moro separatist rebels in the infamous ... |
The Sun Daily - JAKARTA (Nov 9, 2011): A former Citibank relationship manager was charged with embezzling more than US$5 million of her clients' money, a Jakarta court heard on Tuesday, in a sports-car fuelled case that has shaken up the wealth management business in ... |
The Sun Daily - PETALING JAYA (Nov 7, 2011): Former Malaysian Bar chairman Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan has warned that she would not hesitate to sue a television station if it continues to misconstrue the objectives of the Seksualiti Merdeka 2011 movement in its reports. |
Mindanao Examiner - MANILA (Mindanao Examiner / Nov. 8, 2011) - A Philippine migrant workers' rights group expressed alarm over reports of abductions of Filipino workers in the Middle East. |
Inquirer.net - ZAMBOANGA CITY—The military has confirmed it was hunting down two—not just one—ranking Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) leaders in Basilan suspected of being behind recent criminal and other atrocities on the island province. |
Inquirer.net - MARAWI CITY—The government has assured South Korea it will do all it can to ensure the safe recovery of three South Korean businessmen who have been abducted by a kidnap-for-ransom gang in Lanao del Sur. |
DigitalJournal.com - At least 31 people were reported injured in a 5.2 magnitude earthquake that hit Bukidnon province in southern Philippines late Monday. |
Aljazeera.com - West Papuans have been rising up against neocolonial Indonesia - which took control of the country in 1962. While the international community is fixated on events taking place across the Middle East, they are turning a blind eye to desperate cries for ... |
Washington Post - HANOI, Vietnam - Vietnamese officials say some of the country's worst flooding in a decade has killed 88 people and left four others missing in the central and southern regions. |
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Voice of America (blog) - The International Atomic Energy Agency says it has “credible” information that Iran has engaged in activities aimed toward the development of nuclear weapons. |
Toronto Star - "I cannot bear Netanyahu, he's a liar," Sarkozy told Obama during a frank exchange overheard by the media present. Angela Charlton Associated Press PARIS—The French president's overheard remark to President Barack Obama that Israeli Prime Minister ... |
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Sharon Bialek, a Chicago-area woman,waits to address a news conference at the Friars Club, Monday, Nov. 7, 2011, in New York. Bialek accused Republican presidential contender Herman Cain of making an unwanted sexual advance ... |
Reuters UK - A Liberian man exits a polling booth for the presidential election run-off at Klay town just outside the capital Monrovia November 8, 2011. |
TVNZ - More than 3500 people have been killed in Syria's crackdown on protesters, the United Nations says, as the military pressed its campaign to put down resistance in the city of Homs against President Bashar al-Assad's rule. |
TODAYonline - SYDNEY - Australia yesterday passed legislation that would impose a tax on the nation's 500 largest polluters, a deeply unpopular measure that the government defended as necessary to control climate change. |
Hindustan Times - PTI A huge crowd at the spot where a stampede claimed 16 lives at Laljiwala where the centenary celebration of International Gayatri Parivar founder Pandit Shri Ram Sharma was being held, in Haridwar. |
Forbes - Many people wait until the holidays to upgrade their home computer on the cheap. Between the pre-Christmas sales and the post-Christmas inventory sell-offs, good bargains can usually be found around the holidays. |
Huffington Post (blog) - Last week saw the end of the G20 summit in Cannes, with the attendant focus on the Euro crisis. At the end of this week another meeting will be held which will hopefully have a more optimistic outcome: the APEC CEO summit, bringing together business ... |
National Post (blog) - Full Comment's Araminta Wordsworth brings you a daily round-up of quality punditry from across the globe. Today: There seems something almost quaint about the causes espoused by Ilich Ramirez Sanchez - Marxist-Leninism and the socialist revolution. |
BusinessWorld Online Edition - INITIATIVES aimed at settling the South China Sea issue will be offered by President Benigno SC Aquino III during next week's Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Bali, a senior official yesterday said. |
NewsMax.com - If ET phones here, the White House will answer the call. But no one is really That's the gist of the official response to an online petition that 12978 people signed asking the government to acknowledge “an extraterrestrial presence... |
Oman Daily Observer - Annual Haj rituals close - MINA, Saudi Arabia - Nearly three million Muslim pilgrims performed the final rituals of the Haj yesterday as the world's largest annual gathering closed without major incident. |
Inquirer.net - TARLAC CITY—President Benigno Aquino III on Tuesday announced that the country had an adequate supply of rice—good for 100 days—despite the strong typhoons that damaged crops in Luzon in the past months. |
Voice of America - November 08, 2011 One Year On: Has Aung San Suu Kyi's Release Changed Burma? Henry Ridgwell | London Twelve months after Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest, a new government has begun talking to some of its critics ... |
The Express Tribune - By APP Top Russian military commander meets Kayani to discuss post-Osama regional security, say official sources. ST. PETERSBURG: The leaders of Pakistan and Russia have expressed the willingness to speed up work on the proposed Free Trade Agreement ... |
Huffington Post (blog) - Eid-al-Adha is also known as Bakra Eid, Eid-el-Kabir, the Big Eid and by 20 other names including a non-Eid sounding phrase 'Waliya Perunnal' in Malyalam language. |
Huffington Post - SERTHAR, China (RNS) Breathless but beaming, Sheng Zisu sounds confident after five months in a maze-like Buddhist encampment high on the eastern Tibetan plateau, nearly 400 miles from the nearest city. |
Inquirer.net - Raul Hernandez, spokesperson of the Department of Foreign Affairs, on Tuesday said the issuance of an arrest warrant for Ma. Ramona “Mara” Bautista in connection with her brother Ramgen Bautista's murder would prompt the DFA to cancel her passport or ... |
BBC News - Beijing has described Japan's arrest of a Chinese fishing boat captain as a "regular fishery case", in a muted response to the incident. |
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