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Belgium charges 9th Paris attacks suspect
BRUSSELS, Belgium – The Belgian authorities have charged a 9th person in connection with last month's deadly Paris attacks, the prosecutor's office said Thursday, December 24.A spokesman said the...
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Japan's Abe orders top diplomat to South Korea for 'comfort women' talks –...
TOKYO, Japan – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has ordered his foreign minister to visit South Korea in a drive to resolve a bitter row over women systematically forced to have sex with Japanese...
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Inquirer editor in chief Letty Jimenez-Magsanoc dead
MANILA, Philippines (UPDATED) – Veteran journalist Letty Jimenez Magsanoc, editor in chief of the Philippine Daily Inquirer (PDI), is dead, the newspaper announced late Thursday night, December 24."It...
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Israeli-Palestinian clashes, attacks rock West Bank
JERUSALEM – New violence erupted in the West Bank on Thursday, December 24, with 3 Palestinian attackers shot dead as they carried out stabbings and a car ramming and another killed in clashes with...
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US air strikes in Afghan district under Taliban siege
KABUL, Afghanistan – The US launched air strikes on Thursday, December 24, to bolster Afghan forces scrambling to beat back Taliban insurgents who seized large swathes of a key opium-rich district,...
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Invisible things
“I think if you document every single moment of your life, then you will have many memories.” This is what a young man told me last weekend when I had a chat with him as he participated in an event...
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Attacks cast pall over Christmas in Paris and around the world
PARIS, France – It was a subdued Christmas Eve in Paris on Thursday, December 24, with tourist numbers down, security bolstered at shops and churches, and locals still on edge after last month's...
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Syria says ready to enter new peace talks
BEIRUT, Lebanon – Syria's regime said Thursday, December 24 it was ready to take part in new talks in Geneva aimed at ending the war, but appeared to make its participation conditional on which...
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Santa absent this year in typhoon-hit Philippines
SAN JOSE, Philippines – Wading through knee-deep floods, 12-year-old Joana Yambao pushes her infant sister in a black wash basin along the surface of the filthy water in a typhoon-hit Philippine...
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IN PHOTOS: Mar Roxas spends Christmas in Nona-hit Mindoro
MANILA, Philippines – It was an unusual Christmas celebration for the standard-bearer of the ruling Liberal Party (LP), who flew to disaster-hit Oriental Mindoro on December 24, Thursday.Dindo Melaya,...
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DOJ backs bill mandating monitoring devices in PUVs
MANILA, Philippines – Will closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras and Global Positioning System (GPS) trackers be required in Public Utility Vehicles (PUVs) soon?The justice department sees no legal...
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Okinawa countersues Japanese gov't over US base move
TOKYO, Japan – The defiant southern region of Okinawa countersued Japan's government on Friday, December 25 over local resistance to a new US military base, the latest chapter in deepening mistrust...
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Toxic smog brings nightmare 'white Christmas' to Beijing
BEIJING, China – Beijing residents woke up to a white Christmas Friday morning, December 25, but with the sky obscured by thick toxic smog rather than snow after more than 100 million people across...
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Japan's top diplomat to visit South Korea for 'comfort women' talks
SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea and Japan's foreign ministers will meet next week to settle a bitter row over a Japanese wartime brothel system, which has strained bilateral ties, officials said...
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EXPLAINER: What happens if Poe doesn't get TRO before printing of ballots?
With the Commission on Elections (Comelec) en banc denying presidential aspirant Grace Poe’s motion for reconsideration, her next step is to elevate the matter to the Supreme Court via a petition for...
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Japanese who paid for sex with 12,000 women in PH convicted
TOKYO, Japan – A former school head teacher, who reportedly paid for sex with 12,000 women in the Philippines, has been convicted in Japan for taking photos of naked Filipino girls.The Yokohama...
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Comelec chief on conspiracy vs Poe: 'We are independent'
MANILA, Philippines – Commission on Elections Chairman Andres Bautista defended the Comelec against allegations that other parties influenced their decisions to take Senator Grace Poe out of the...
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Huge blast at Nigerian gas plant claims at least 8 lives
LAGOS, Nigeria – A huge Christmas Eve explosion at an industrial gas plant in southeastern Nigeria left several people charred beyond recognition, police said on Friday, December 24, as fatality...
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India's Modi on surprise Pakistan visit to meet PM
LAHORE, Pakistan (UPDATED) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a surprise "goodwill" visit to Pakistan on Friday, December 25, to meet his counterpart Nawaz Sharif, both reaffirming to resume...
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Shenzhen landslide an industrial accident, not geological disaster – China
BEIJING, China – A landslide last week that killed seven and has left dozens missing was an "industrial safety accident" rather than a geological disaster, a Chinese cabinet investigation found, the...
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