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Monday, December 10, 2007 (Philippines)
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| President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo meets with Kuwaiti Emir Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (right) at the conference room of the Bayan Palace in Kuwait to seek clemency for a Filipino worker sentenced to death. (Malacañang photo) |
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MANILA -- Kuwaiti Emir Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah has commuted the death sentence of Marilou Ranario, an overseas Filipino worker, to life imprisonment following a personal appeal by President Arroyo during her four-hour visit to Kuwait yesterday, said Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye.
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