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Bossi released after 6-week ordeal |
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‘I’ve forgiven
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Looking thin and haggard, Italian priest Giancarlo Bossi said Friday
that he had forgiven the men who kidnapped him and kept him captive
for almost six weeks.
Bossi, 57, seized outside his
parish in Payao, Zamboanga Sibugay, on June 10, was turned over to a
local politician Thursday night in Karumatan, Lanao del Norte,
following negotiations with his Islamic rebel captors.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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Hunt for Basilan
beheaders in full swing, says military
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WITH Father Giancarlo Bossi freed
by his captors, the hunt for the group that killed 14 Marines in
Basilan could proceed in earnest, the military said Friday.
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1,200-pound
Mexican weighs into record books
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MONTERREY, Mexico: A Mexican
tipping the scales at 560 kilograms (1,234 pounds) will be listed as
the world’s fattest man by the Guinness Book of Records, while a
loss of 200 kilos (440 pounds) may make him the man...
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Ping growls at
Senate ‘mongrels’
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The split within the Senate
opposition deepened Friday as Sen. Panfilo Lacson described as
“political mongrels” and “stragglers” his four erstwhile
allies who plan to join administration senators in forming the new
Senate...
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Trillanes
attendance unresolved
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With days to go before the
inaugural session of the Fourteenth Congress, the issue of whether
detained Sen. Antonio Trillanes 4th could attend remains unresolved.
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SPECIAL REPORT
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Supreme bishop’s
supreme sacrifice
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AT LEAST 22 church workers had
been killed since 2001, according to Karapatan, a human rights group
linked to the National Democratic Front, a coalition of far left
leaning political parties, agricultural unions,...
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