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Cold and wet
Students report to their class as intermittent rains continue to pound Metro Manila even if typhoon Henry has left the country.Photo BY Ruy Martinez
View ArticleMore than 40 feared dead in Taiwan plane crash
TAIPEI: More than 40 people were feared dead in a plane crash in Taiwan on Wednesday, officials said, with witnesses and local media reporting the flight came down in a storm after an aborted landing....
View Article‘Bangsa law may spark war’
Joel M. Sy Egco Senior Reporter And Jerry Adlaw CorrespondentTHE impasse over alleged “alterations” in the draft Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) may trigger a fresh conflict that could leave the government...
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Missiles of protest
Members of the Di Ka Pasisikil Movement aim paper missiles at the Chinese Embassy in Makati City to dramatize their protest against Chinese aggression on Thursday.PHOTO BY RUY L. MARTINEZ
View ArticleAlgerian airliner missing over Mali ‘probably crashed’
ALGIERS: An Air Algerie plane missing since early Thursday over Mali with 116 passengers and crew, including 50 French nationals, on board probably crashed, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said....
View ArticleIsraeli tanks shells target UN-run school, killing 16 civilians
GAZA: Four Israeli army tanks shells fired on Thursday at a school, run by the United Nations for Relief and Work Agency (UNRWA) in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun, killing 16 and wounded...
View ArticleGaza death toll approaches 800, no sign of ceasefire
GAZA/JERUSALEM: Though Israel’s air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip has claimed the lives of almost 800 Palestinian civilians by Thursday night, the international efforts to broker a ceasefire...
View ArticlePAGASA tracks another LPA outside PAR, expects fair weather this weekend
The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services (PAGASA) has tracked another weather disturbance that may enter the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) on Monday. In an interview,...
View ArticleWreckage of missing Algerian airliner found in Mali
OUAGADOUGOU: The wreckage of an Air Algerie plane missing since early Thursday with 116 people on board has been found in Mali near the Burkina Faso border, an army coordinator in Ouagadougou said. “We...
View ArticleRussia firing across border on Ukraine troops: US
WASHINGTON: The United States on Thursday said it had evidence Russian forces are firing artillery from inside Russia on Ukrainian troops, in what officials called a “clear escalation” of the conflict....
View ArticleUkraine’s PM resigns, complicating MH17 probe
DONETSK, Ukraine: Ukraine’s prime minister resigned Thursday after his governing coalition collapsed, plunging the former Soviet state into political limbo as it struggles to quell a deadly rebellion...
View ArticleNorway on alert over feared terrorist attack
OSLO: Norway is stepping up security amid intelligence reports of a possible imminent “terrorist attack” by militants who have fought in Syria, the country’s security officials said Thursday. The move...
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Aquino’s new title: ‘Thief Executive’
YEN MAKABENTA Activists, the serious and real ones, never sleep. And they never run out of ideas. The youth activist group, Anakbayan (sons and daughters of the people), may have scored another homerun...
View ArticleDelay of Bangsamoro Law passage
OUR banner story yesterday “Bangsa law may spark war” made some online comment writers say we were being alarmists. We were not spreading alarmist fears, we were merely telling the truth. While the...
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Pasay creek cleared
Hundreds of shanties along the Maricaban creek in Pasay City were demolished on Friday in an effort to rehabilitate the waterway. The residents affected will be relocated to Trece Martirez City in...
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Today’s Front Page July 26, 2014
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The founders portrait
Artist Dante Hipolito applies the finishing touches to his masterpiece “Centennial” inside his house in Bacoor, Cavite, on Friday. The oil painting portrays Felix Manalo as founder of the Iglesia ni...
View ArticleOccasional rains over Western Luzon to continue
The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services (PAGASA) on Saturday said that southwest monsoon continues to be the dominant weather system affecting the country. For Saturday...
View ArticleIsrael and Hamas declare 12-hour Gaza truce
JERUSALEM: The Israeli military and Hamas said on Saturday that they would observe a 12-hour ceasefire from 8:00 am (0500 GMT), but a longer-term truce remained elusive for now. Hamas said that it and...
View ArticleDutch, Australians ready MH17 troops amid Ukraine deadly fighting
KIEV: Dutch and Australian authorities put their troops on standby for deployment to secure the rebel-held crash site of Malaysian flight MH17 in east Ukraine, where fighting between the army and...
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