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The four Filipino peacekeepers abducted by Syrian rebels in Golan Heights were released safely after five days in captivity, the government and the military said as they called on combatants to respect United Nations (UN) personnel.The four were turned over by a Syrian rebel group…
Five persons were killed in separate ambushes in Mindanao, police and the military yesterday said, and a radio reporter was kidnapped by armed men on the eve of mid-term elections.Two men armed with short firearms abducted radio reporter Melinda Jennifer Glifonea at dawn on Sunday…
A member of the Liberal Party (LP) made a bold prediction that his political party will lose Manila in favor of the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA), including the “imminent defeat” of re-electionist Mayor Alfredo Lim to his challenger, UNA kingpin former President Joseph “Erap” Estrada.This…
A last-ditch attempt at weakening the chances of United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) candidates perceived to be clinging at the bottom half of the senatorial race was put into action during the last few days of the campaign period through a devious scheme of hacking into…
Commentaries
Breaking all election rules, laws
19-05-2013 Ninez Cacho-Olivares
He is a lawyer, as most election commissioners are, but...
Culture chokes in Spain as bookshops, ci…
19-05-2013 AFP
MADRID — The Catalonia bookshop in Barcelona survived a...
Same old, same old
19-05-2013 Louie Logarta
The incumbent chief executives of the five populous pro...
Surprises or shocks
19-05-2013 Larry Faraon
Of course President Joseph Estrada’s victory in Manila ...
For Sweden’s gay Eurovision fans, it’s a…
19-05-2013 AFP
MALMOE, Sweden — When Finnish singer Krista Siegfrids e...
Headlines
Taiwan report: PCG murdered fi…
PALACE REJECTS RESULTS OF PROBE Taiwanese Hung Shih-Chen wh…
Reports of Taiwanese attacks o…
Some 85,000 Filipino workers in Taiwan have been engulfed in…
Poll fraud probable with lull …
The 44-hour lull in the canvassing of the election returns (…
Binay allays fears about healt…
Vice President Jejomar Binay on Friday night appeared before…
Palace points to Comelec over …
In an apparent bid to save face, Malacañang yesterday said t…
DAR out to sabotage HLI audit …
Farmers belonging to the United Luisita Workers Union (ULWU)…
China slams Philippines for Ta…
PROC calls killing by Coast Guard ‘barbaric’ President Aqui…
Poll credibility still a probl…
The mid-term elections are over, but the voting public has y…
‘Massacre clan’ enjoys poll vi…
The Ampatuan clan whose chiefs are on trial for the country’…
Wimpy Fuentebella wins CamSur …
It’s all over — including the shouting, and the fat lady has…