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Alien troops must
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In a move that frontally pits the leaders of Asean against the
President and State Department of the United States, its oldest and
most powerful ally and supporter, the 10-nation Association of
Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) on Tuesday called for the withdrawal
of all foreign troops from Iraq.
Asean said it was the way to
bring back normality to the Civil War-wracked Arab country.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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Bulusan eruption
2007’s 25th, big bang possible
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SORSOGON’s Mount Bulusan
erupted on Tuesday, raining ash on two towns, but there were no
reports of casualties, volcanologists said.
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FM Jr. to testify
vs. Lucio Tan today
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Rep. Ferdinand “Bong-bong”
Marcos Jr. of Ilocos Norte will testify today before the
Sandiganbayan against tycoon Lucio Tan, but he is doing this not to
serve the government’s objectives but the Marcos family’s
claim...
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Former Sen. Jovito
Salonga leads Magsaysay Awardees
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FORMER senator Jovito R. Salonga
on Tuesday won the 2007 Ramon Magsaysay Award, Asia’s Nobel Prize,
for government service.
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PNP teams miss
perps in Basilan
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Hundreds of heavily armed police
swept into this village Tuesday to arrest Muslim separatists accused
of killing and beheading Philippine soldiers but the suspects were
gone along with all the residents.
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ADB pessimistic
about advance to First World
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IT is doubtful if President
Arroyo’s vision of the Philippines becoming a First-World country
in the next two decades will come true because local living
standards and infrastructure—which are far behind its neighbors...
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GMA allots P664M
for expected drought problems
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A SENIOR weather forecaster said
Tuesday he hoped more typhoons would lash the Philippines this year
to ease a lengthening dry spell that has caused power outages and
threatens agriculture.
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US gives books,
equipment to Thomasites’ old school
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American officials and Navy
sailors are keeping the Thomasites’ old school in Intramuros
well-equipped and modernized.
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