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Facing jail for sedition, Thai student protesters refuse to back down
BANGKOK, Thailand – Bas strums a guitar in a high-rise flat in a working-class Bangkok neighborhood, his thoughts flitting between the new term at university and the prospect of seven years in jail.The...
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Queen Elizabeth goes low-key for record reign landmark
LONDON, United Kingdom – Queen Elizabeth II is planning to keep things low-key on Wednesday, September 9, when she will overtake Queen Victoria as Britain's longest-serving monarch, despite public...
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Germany to make extra 6B euros available for refugees – coalition
BERLIN, Germany – Germany, which is currently opening its doors to a record number of refugees, will make an additional 6 billion euros ($6.7 billion) in public funds available next year to cover the...
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Comedian leads president vote in corruption-weary Guatemala
GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala – Comedian Jimmy Morales led the early count Monday, September 7, in Guatemala's presidential election, after a tumultuous campaign sparked by the jailing of the country's...
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Rate of global forest loss halved – UN report
DURBAN, South Africa – The rate at which the world is losing its forests has been halved, but an area of woodland the size of South Africa has still been lost since 1990, a major UN report said Monday,...
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Duterte: 'I am not running for president'
DAVAO CITY, Philippines (UPDATED) – "I am not running."Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte ended on Monday, September 7, what has been a long wait for supporters and political observers, announcing that...
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Mark Cojuangco 'fights for Binay' in NPC meeting
MANILA, Philippines – The son of businessman Eduardo “Danding” Cojuangco made the case for Vice President Jejomar Binay as the opposition standard-bearer asked the endorsement of the Nationalist...
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Paris climate talks our last chance, say Pacific leaders
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea – Pacific leaders said Monday, September 7, that upcoming climate talks in Paris are the last chance for the world to reach an agreement that can save their vulnerable...
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Supreme Court revives petition to stop Payatas landfill expansion
MANILA, Philippines – The Supreme Court has issued a writ of kalikasan against the planned expansion of the Payatas Sanitary Landfill by the Quezon City government, a reversal of a previous decision...
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Germany, France to take thousands of refugees under EU plan
BERLIN, Germany (2nd UPDATE) – Germany pledged an extra 6 billion euros Monday, September 7, to help the record numbers of desperate refugees crossing its borders, with France vowing to take in 24,000...
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Roxas: 'Possible' for Leni Robredo to be running mate
MANILA, Philippines – Has administration standard-bearer and interior secretary Manuel Roxas II stopped wooing Senator Grace Poe to be his vice president?Roxas dodged the question in a chance interview...
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Netizens on Duterte's decision: He was our last hope for a better PH
MANILA, Philippines – “You have to run, sir! We can’t do this on our own.”That was one way netizens responded to Rodrigo Duterte’s announcement that he won’t be running for president in the 2016...
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Court orders release of Ka Roger's daughter
MANILA, Philippines – More than a year after she was arrested, Andrea Rosal, daughter of the late New People's Army (NPA) spokesperson Gregorio "Ka Roger" Rosal, was ordered released on Monday,...
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Bangkok bomb suspect 'confesses' to possession of explosives – police
BANGKOK, Thailand – One of the two men arrested over last month's deadly Bangkok bombing has admitted to a charge of possessing explosives, police said Monday, September 7, in the first confession over...
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Meteor lights up Thai skies and web
BANGKOK, Thailand – Thais were left stunned Monday, September 7, after a suspected meteor streaked through the daytime skies in a phenomena that also quickly lit up social media. Footage from one...
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Cardinal Tagle, presidential bets in ‘prayer meeting’
MANILA, Philippines – Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle was set to lead a prayer meeting with the Philippines’ top presidential aspirants on Monday, September 7, along with other bets for...
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Palace, VP Binay 'respect' Duterte's decision not to run for president
MANILA, Philippines – After Rodrigo Duterte announced he would not run for president in 2016, the two highest offices in the land said they “respect” the decision of the Davao City mayor.Malacañang on...
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PH to request extradition of Fil-Am murder suspect
MANILA, Philippiens – A Filipino American, who is suspected of murdering a woman in Zambales and who has fled to the United States, is set to be extradited to the Philippines.Department of Justice...
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Binay camp accuses Kid Peña of ‘credit-grabbing,’ ‘epal’ moves
MANILA, Philippines – The camp of suspended Makati City Mayor Jejomar Erwin “Junjun” Binay Jr slammed acting Mayor Romulo “Kid” Peña Jr for issuing a “self-serving” media statement allegedly crediting...
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US dentist who killed Cecil the lion breaks silence
WASHINGTON, United States - The US dentist who killed Zimbabwe's Cecil the lion has broken weeks of silence, saying in an interview that he had no idea it was a special feline and announcing he would...
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