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Thursday, August 03, 2006 (Philippines)
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| After the fire, victims scour site for what can still be used from the ruins. Father and child (right) see little hope. Displaced residents of Lawis and Tangke II in Mambaling, Cebu City will be given help by the Cebu City Government. (Sun.Star Cebu/Allan Defensor) |
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MANILA -- President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Wednesday directed the mandatory pullout of all Filipinos in Lebanon to avoid incurring any casualties following fears that attacks might escalate in the coming weeks.
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Drug addicts 'set off fire' in Cebu City barangay
| CEBU CITY -- A lighted candle used in a shabu session or gas lamps quarrelling drug users threw at each other may have caused the fire in Barangay Mambaling, Cebu City that left about 500 families homeless. |
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Gunmen abduct university president's daughter
| ZAMBOANGA CITY -- Unidentified gunmen snatched the daughter of a university president in Zamboanga City in the southern Philippines, where the Abu Sayyaf group is known to operate, officials said. |
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1 dies, 100 flee from floods in Misamis Oriental
| BALINGASAG, Misamis Oriental -- One person was killed, another went missing, and almost a hundred families fled their houses as a waterspout and heavy rains hit 11 barangays in Balingasag and Lagonglong, Misamis Oriental Wednesday. |
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Bacolod
2 religious icons beheaded, 4 others stolen College entrance exam revival favored
Baguio
Special tribunal sentences 3 to life Koreans go to other Asian countries for language training
Cebu
Website features nude women Asssins in Cebu City ‘trained and paid’; traffic enforcer shot
Cagayan de Oro
'Chop-chop' victims discovered in Lanao Now, Garci nephew wants to run too
Davao
Mayor issues guns to village cops Sale of high-powered arms regulated
Dumaguete
Rob gang leader, 2 cops slain in grenade blast Teacher held up, P181,000 taken
General Santos
2 top crime gangs busted Mayor hails Arroyo's nation address
Iloilo
City not ready for night market: Exec Balikbayans lose P.5M, jewelry to Budol-Budol Gang
Manila
Daughter of slain actress wants murder raps v. aide junked Estrada sues ex-beauty queen, ma, paper for libel
Pampanga
No politics in adopting Legarda: Lapid Cop charged for firing gun in Arayat brawl
Pangasinan
Fiscal escapes slay try 2 big-time 'drug dealers' nabbed
Zamboanga
3 Sayyafs killed, 8 wounded in fierce fighting in Sulu Surrender or die: General to JIs, Sayyafs
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