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1. Genoa -- the latest victim of global protests

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GENOA: The old port of Genoa was littered with debris and daubed with graffiti yesterday after three days of rioting and the death of a protestor at a Group of Eight summit, the worst violence in 19 months of anti-globalisation protests.

2. Singaporeans dance the night away to the Wild West beat

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SINGAPORE: Sunset on a Saturday and the Roch family of cowboys saddle up and ride into town, proving East shall meet West, at least through Shania Twain as country line dancing takes off in Asia.

3. Paper publishes suicide note of Kohl's wife

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BERLIN: A German newspaper published part of a farewell letter by Helmut Kohl’s late wife, Hannelore, yesterday in an attempt to defuse media speculation that the former chancellor’s neglect drove his wife to suicide.

4. Probe begins into Japan stampede

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TOKYO: Police launched an investigation yesterday into a seaside tragedy that killed 10 people, including eight children, when crowds at a fireworks show in southern Japan jammed the lone exit bridge.

5. ‘Housing the poor biggest challenge for Arroyo’

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MANILA: Millions of Filipinos are forced to live like animals because of inadequate housing facilities, a congressional leader said yesterday.

6. Philippines prepares for talks with rebels

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MANILA: Philippine government negotiators are to leave for Malaysia today to resume formal peace talks with separatist Moro rebels, the leader of the team said yesterday. Manila concluded the first round of talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation...

7. Fierce clashes break out in Macedonia

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TETOVO, Macedonia: Sporadic but intensive firefights broke out between ethnic Albanian rebels and Macedonian security forces yesterday in what was seen as the worst fighting since a fragile July 5 ceasefire, a defence ministry official said.

8. Indonesian army in show of strength

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JAKARTA: Indonesian military tanks paraded through Jakarta yesterday in a show of strength after two bomb blasts on the eve of a parliamentary session likely to impeach President Abdurrahman Wahid.

9. Arroyo orders probe against

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MANILA: President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo authorised a formal investigation yesterday into allegations that her husband received bribes in exchange for the recall of her veto of a telecommunications franchise deal.

10. Manila to import drugs from India to cut costs

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MANILA: President Gloria Arroyo said yesterday that the Philippines would import medicine from India to cut by half the average cost of over-the-counter drugs.

11. Stay put and send money~ Arroyo urges OFWs

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MANILA: Philippine President Gloria Arroyo warned the millions of Filipinos working overseas that the country was not yet ready to absorb them and that they should continue working abroad.

12. Arroyo reiterates pledge to crush Abu Sayyaf rebels

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MANILA: Philippine President Gloria Arroyo yesterday vowed to push through with an operation to crush the Abu Sayyaf Muslim guerrilla group even as more sympathisers of the kidnapping band surrendered or were captured.

13. Villagers continue to flee sizzling Mayon

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LEGASPI: Filipino villagers continued to flee their homes near the lava-pouring Mayon volcano yesterday, straining the resources of relief officials who urged some of them to return home.

14. Sayyaf rebels behead four more hostages

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LAMITAN: Abu Sayyaf Muslim guerrillas who seized more than a dozen hostages in this southern town have beheaded nine of their captives, local officials said yesterday.

15. Troops rescue 13 Filipino hostages

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ISABELA: Philippine troops rescued 13 Filipino hostages, mostly children, during a gunbattle with Muslim guerrillas yesterday but 21 other captives, including a US missionary couple, remained in rebel hands.

16. Philippines~ Milf rebels reach truce deal

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MANILA: One and a half months after the resumption of formal talks between the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (Milf) and the Philippine government in Tripoli, Libya, the warring camps forged a formal ceasefire yesterday in Putrajaya, Malaysia.

17. Philippine troops closing in on Sayyaf guerrillas

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KAPAYAWAN: Philippine troops were zeroing in on Muslim Abu Sayyaf kidnappers holding two Americans and 19 Filipinos on southern Basilan island, military officials said yesterday.

18. Sayyaf rebels will be crushed by November: army

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ISABELA: Philippines military chief of staff Diomedio Villanueva yesterday vowed to crush the Abu Sayyaf guerrilla group and rescue all 21 hostages by November.

19. Arroyo welcomes ceasefire pact with Milf guerrillas

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MANILA: President Gloria Arroyo yesterday welcomed the ceasefire pact with the Philippines’ leading Muslim guerrilla outfit as a long-awaited boost for the impoverished southern economy.

20. Philippines seeks help for missing paintings seized from Marcos loot

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MANILA: A Philippine government agency said yesterday that a number of expensive paintings seized from the loot of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos had been lost in its custody in New York.

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