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Senator asked to keep mum on China talks 22 Sep 2012 - 05:09 am

MANILA: Malacañang yesterday asked Senator Antonio Trillanes IV to stop talking about the country’s affairs with China and consider national interest first, especially...

Anti-Islam film shown at university despite ban 22 Sep 2012 - 05:09 am

MANILA: An inflammatory anti-Islamic film was screened at one of the Philippines’ top universities yesterday, defying a ban imposed by school officials who...

Tomb raiders spoil Philippine archaeological find in Kamhantik 22 Sep 2012 - 05:08 am

MANILA: Philippine archaeologists said yesterday they had discovered a thousand-year old cemetery of rock coffins in a rainforest, but that tomb-raiders had found...

Illegal settlers in Makati relocate voluntarily 22 Sep 2012 - 05:08 am

MANILA: The Makati City government yesterday reported that 137 of the 236 families who have illegally occupied a city-government property along Guatemala St...

ARMM leaders seek end to clan wars 22 Sep 2012 - 05:07 am

COTABATO CITY: Members of the “little Congress” in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao appealed yesterday to security authorities to help in settling...

Manila raises alert over storm Jelawat 22 Sep 2012 - 05:07 am

MANILA: The government’s disaster response agency yesterday placed all its units under red alert due to tropical storm “Jelawat”, which was expected to...

UK police want minister to quit over remarks 22 Sep 2012 - 05:06 am

LONDON: Police representatives demanded a British minister resign yesterday, saying he had sworn at officers and called them “morons”, in an embarrassing incident...

Obama, allies score financial victory over Romney 22 Sep 2012 - 05:06 am

WASHINGTON: US Democratic President Barack Obama and his allies scored a financial victory in August over Republican challenger Mitt Romney and his backers,...

James Murdoch to oversee Fox Networks: Report 22 Sep 2012 - 05:06 am

LONDON: News Corp is planning to give James Murdoch responsibility for its US television businesses, the Fox Networks Group, the Financial Times reported...

Man takes at least one hostage in US office tower drama 22 Sep 2012 - 05:05 am

WASHINGTON: A man claiming to have a bomb in a canvas bag took at least one person hostage yesterday in an office building...

Chavez plays populist card for elections 22 Sep 2012 - 05:05 am

SABANETA, Venezuela: To understand why President Hugo Chavez may win yet another election in Venezuela next month, go and sit under the mango...

Le Pen calls for ban on Muslim, Jewish headwear 22 Sep 2012 - 05:04 am

PARIS: French far-right leader Marine Le Pen called yesterday for a ban on the wearing of Muslim veils and Jewish skullcaps in public,...

France bans protest over cartoons 22 Sep 2012 - 05:04 am

PARIS: France banned protests yesterday against cartoons published by a satirical weekly denigrating the Prophet Mohammad (Peace Be Upon Him) as part of...

Belarus opposition calls for poll boycott 22 Sep 2012 - 05:03 am

MINSK: The shattered opposition in Belarus urged people yesterday to boycott parliamentary elections which they denounce as a sham, marked, human rights groups...

South Africa issues arrest warrant for ANC renegade Malema 22 Sep 2012 - 05:03 am

JOHANNESBURG: South African authorities have issued an arrest warrant for ANC renegade Julius Malema, President Jacob Zuma’s most vocal critic and a key...

Serbia opens probe into ’08 attack on German embassy 22 Sep 2012 - 05:02 am

BELGRADE: Serbia announced yesterday that it has opened a probe into a 2008 attack on the German embassy that followed riots over Kosovo’s...

Nazi war criminal Heim dead: German court 22 Sep 2012 - 05:02 am

BERLIN: German judicial authorities yesterday officially said for the first time that Nazi war criminal Aribert Heim, known as “Doctor Death”, had died...

The fifty-megaton elephant in the room 22 Sep 2012 - 05:01 am

Chinese usually note that until US joins China in promising not to use nuclear weapons first, there isn’t much to say. By Jeffrey...