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Monday, March 23, 2003 (Philippines)
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(The Sun.Star website is updated every 1 a.m., Philippine time and as often as news alerts from the network come in. If you are having difficulty getting the updates, click on the refresh button of your browser. -- Editors)
| UP IN SMOKE. Smoke covers the presidential palace compound in Baghdad during a massive US-led air raid on the Iraqi capital. Smoke billowed from a number of targeted sites, including one of President Saddam Hussein's palaces, an AFP correspondent said. (AFP PHOTO) |
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THE U.S.-led offensive against Iraq will help safeguard the Philippines from domestic terror groups who may be getting support from abroad, President Arroyo said Saturday.
The President also explained that her government's all-out support for the United States-led war against Iraq is nothing personal and actually has not placed the overseas Filipino workers' welfare at risk at all.
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US support in Iraq war 'nothing personal': GMA
| THE President on Saturday said her government's all-out support for the United States-led war against Iraq is nothing personal and actually has not placed the overseas Filipino workers' welfare at risk at all. |
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Duterte ambivalent on emergency powers
| DAVAO City Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte Saturday doubted if President Gloria Arroyo would need emergency powers during the US-Iraq crisis. |
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