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Condemning Violence: Philippines

Tulsa World - Wed Nov 25, 3:40 am ET

Protesters hold lighted candles while displaying placards during a rally Tuesday in Manila's Quezon City to condemn election violence in the southern Philippines.

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Philippine official says women were mutilated in massacre
San Jose Mercury News - Sat Nov 28, 12:42 am ET
Women were sexually mutilated, authorities say
World briefs: 11/28/09
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Sat Nov 28, 12:40 am ET
Germany's labor minister resigned yesterday after conceding that he didn't see a military report on a deadly September airstrike in northern Afghanistan while he held the government's defense portfolio.
Cadaver hunt in Philippines massacre ends: police
AFP via Yahoo! News - Sat Nov 28, 12:29 am ET
Police have ended a grisly search for corpses and mass graves from an election-linked massacre in the southern Philippines, with the known death toll standing at 57, officials said Saturday.
Cory Mull: Squires fought to the bitter end
York Daily Record - Sat Nov 28, 12:28 am ET
Two weeks ago, when Manny Pacquiao fought Miguel Cotto for the welterweight boxing title in Las Vegas, the lightning-quick Filipino defied reason when he let the power-punching Puerto Rican lay into
Three dead in Zimbabwean plane blaze at Shanghai airport
EARTHtimes.org - Fri Nov 27, 11:56 pm ET
Beijing - Three people died and four others were injured after a Zimbabwean cargo plane caught fire at Shanghai Pudong international airport on Saturday morning, local media reported. The plane was preparing for takeoff when it veered off the runway ...
Front-runner registers for Philippine presidential election
AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 27, 11:22 pm ET
Benigno Aquino, the front-runner in the race to succeed Philippines President Gloria Arroyo, formally registered his candidacy in the May 2010 election on Saturday with a pledge to fight corruption, witnesses said.
Kiattaweesuk victorious
Fightnews.com - Fri Nov 27, 11:20 pm ET
IBF #12 Tantong Kiattaweesuk (15-0, 9 KOs) successfully defended the IBF Pan Pacific bantamweight championship when he scored a shutout twelve round decision over Filipino Anthony Esmedina (6-9-2) at the I-Karoake Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand on Thursday.
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UPI - Fri Nov 27, 11:20 pm ET
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Singapore authorities note rise in late-stage HIV detections
EARTHtimes.org - Fri Nov 27, 11:11 pm ET
Singapore - Singapore's health ministry is concerned about the increasing number of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) cases being detected in the late stage of HIV-infection. It is also concerned that 27 women tested positive between Jan...
ANALYSIS: The ugly face of Philippine political dynasties
EARTHtimes.org - Fri Nov 27, 11:11 pm ET
Manila - The horrific massacre of 57 civilians this week in the southern Philippines was a grim reminder of the influence of political families in the country and the perils of breaking from their stranglehold. The main suspect in the November 23 gru...
Flooding traps 17 in China coal mine
EARTHtimes.org - Fri Nov 27, 10:41 pm ET
Beijing - Seventeen miners were trapped underground when a coal mine in north-eastern China flooded, state media reported Saturday. The mine in Meikou City, Jilin province flooded at 1:55 pm on Friday trapping the workers, the official Xinhua news ag...
Official says police, military involved in Philippine massacre
EARTHtimes.org - Fri Nov 27, 10:41 pm ET
Manila - Police officers and soldiers were involved in the mass slaughter of 57 civilians in the southern Philippines, the justice secretary said Saturday. Agnes Devenadera said statements from witnesses showed that many police officers, soldiers and...
World/nation briefs
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune - Fri Nov 27, 9:34 pm ET
WASHINGTON, D.C. The Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve are giving U.S. financial institutions an additional six months to comply with regulations designed to ban Internet gambling.
US military deaths in Afghanistan region at 849
ABC 7 El Paso - Fri Nov 27, 9:25 pm ET
As of Friday, Nov. 27, 2009, at least 849 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The...
'Generous' Bangor figure, Sanford 'Sonny' Miller, dies
Bangor Daily News - Fri Nov 27, 9:19 pm ET
BANGOR, Maine -- Sanford "Sonny" Miller, whose buffet-style restaurant on Main Street became a legendary local meeting place until it closed four years ago, died Thanksgiving night at a local hospital due to complications of pancreatic cancer.