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Sat, 20 Jun 2009 08:27:39 GMT 10 http://i20.servimg.com/u/f20/11/55/30/37/kpv210.gif http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/-t1.htm http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/don-t-evade-sars-screening-t899.htm misay eh bakit si GLoria di nya sinusunod yung rules.... ^_^ di raw siya mag ququarantine ng sarili nya!!! hehehe ano masasabi nyo dyan?? exemption ... lols Foreign News Sat, 20 Jun 2009 08:27:39 GMT http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/don-t-evade-sars-screening-t899.htm#49380 http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/don-t-evade-sars-screening-t899.htm http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/mail-to-order-bride-by-alec-baldwin-t858.htm Jhuly ]]> Foreign News Tue, 19 May 2009 08:43:29 GMT http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/mail-to-order-bride-by-alec-baldwin-t858.htm#46912 http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/mail-to-order-bride-by-alec-baldwin-t858.htm http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/8-year-old-girl-divorce-husband-t843.htm Jhuly CAIRO – An 8-year-old Saudi girl has divorced her middle-aged husband after her father forced her to marry him last year in exchange for about $13,000, her lawyer said Thursday. Saudi Arabia has come under increasing criticism at home and abroad for permitting child marriages. The United States, a close ally of the conservative Muslim kingdom, has called child marriage a "clear and unacceptable" violation of human rights. The girl was allowed to divorce the 50-year-old man who ... Foreign News Sat, 02 May 2009 02:16:32 GMT http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/8-year-old-girl-divorce-husband-t843.htm#46449 http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/8-year-old-girl-divorce-husband-t843.htm http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/4257-dead-us-troops-in-iraq-t805.htm Jhuly By The Associated Press AP - Friday, March 13 As of Thursday, March 12, 2009, at least 4,257 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes eight military civilians killed in action. At least 3,424 military personnel died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers. The AP count is two fewer than the Defense Department's tally, last updated Thursday at 10 a.m. EDT. The ... Foreign News Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:15:02 GMT http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/4257-dead-us-troops-in-iraq-t805.htm#45136 http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/4257-dead-us-troops-in-iraq-t805.htm http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/obamaipasasara-ang-guantanamo-t748.htm Jhuly WASHINGTON – Breaking forcefully with Bush anti-terror policies, President Barack Obama ordered major changes Thursday that he said would halt the torture of suspects, close down the Guantanamo detention center, ban secret CIA prisons overseas and fight terrorism "in a manner that is consistent with our values and our ideals." "We intend to win this fight. We're going to win it on our terms," Obama declared, turning U.S. policy abruptly on just his second full day in office. ... Foreign News Fri, 23 Jan 2009 06:15:54 GMT http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/obamaipasasara-ang-guantanamo-t748.htm#41245 http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/obamaipasasara-ang-guantanamo-t748.htm http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/obama-1st-black-us-president-t644.htm Jhuly WASHINGTON – Barack Obama swept to victory as the nation's first black president Tuesday night in an electoral college landslide that overcame racial barriers as old as America itself. The son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas, the Democratic senator from Illinois sealed his historic triumph by defeating Republican Sen. John McCain in a string of wins in hard-fought battleground states — Ohio, Florida, Virginia and Iowa. A huge crowd in Grant Park in Obama's home ... Foreign News Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:53:28 GMT http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/obama-1st-black-us-president-t644.htm#32809 http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/obama-1st-black-us-president-t644.htm http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/burma-s-struggle-for-democracy-t52.htm Punong Abala BANGKOK, Sept. 28 — Myanmar’s armed forces appeared to have succeeded today in sealing tens of thousands of protesting monks inside their monasteries, but they continued to attack bands of civilian demonstrators who challenged them in the streets of the main city, Yangon. Witnesses and diplomats reached by telephone inside Myanmar said troops were now confronting and attacking smaller groups of civilians around the city, sometimes running after them through narrow streets, sometimes firing ... Foreign News Sat, 29 Sep 2007 01:53:32 GMT http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/burma-s-struggle-for-democracy-t52.htm#151 http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/burma-s-struggle-for-democracy-t52.htm http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/president-obama-s-inauguration-t725.htm Punong Abala Barack Obama will be sworn in as president just days before the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth, and his inauguration theme will reflect the timing: "A New Birth Of Freedom," a phrase from the Gettysburg Address. From Lincoln's speech: Quote:The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. ... Foreign News Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:11:28 GMT http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/president-obama-s-inauguration-t725.htm#38805 http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/president-obama-s-inauguration-t725.htm http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/human-rights-day-t669.htm Jhuly Human Rights Day is celebrated annually across the world on 10 December. The date was chosen to honour the United Nations General Assembly's adoption and proclamation, on 10 December 1948, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the first global enunciation of human rights. The commemoration was established in 1950, when the General Assembly invited all states and interested organizations to celebrate the day as they saw fit. The day is a high point in the calendar of UN ... Foreign News Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:55:10 GMT http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/human-rights-day-t669.htm#35037 http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/human-rights-day-t669.htm http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/son-of-osama-bin-laden-loses-asylum-bid-in-spain-t649.htm Aslia_008 MADRID, Spain – Spain rejected an asylum request from a son of Osama bin Laden on Wednesday after deciding he had not met the conditions necessary for him to remain. Omar Osama bin Laden, 27, flew to Spain earlier this week and remains in a transit area at Madrid's Barajas Airport, an Interior Ministry official said. He has 24 hours to appeal the government's decision. "The Interior Ministry has not accepted the request for asylum because this does not meet the conditions necessary for ... Foreign News Thu, 06 Nov 2008 07:16:56 GMT http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/son-of-osama-bin-laden-loses-asylum-bid-in-spain-t649.htm#32904 http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/son-of-osama-bin-laden-loses-asylum-bid-in-spain-t649.htm http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/us-presidential-campaign-t360.htm Jhuly PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (Reuters) - Democratic presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama sharpened their attacks on each other on Sunday, trading barbs over health care, trade and experience as they head for key showdowns in Texas and Ohio on March 4. As Obama tried to nail down the Democratic nomination by winning those two states and Clinton battled to say alive, a familiar face joined the presidential race. Consumer advocate Ralph Nader, blamed by many Democrats for their ... Foreign News Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:26:21 GMT http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/us-presidential-campaign-t360.htm#10715 http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/us-presidential-campaign-t360.htm http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/oil-in-brazil-t617.htm Punong Abala SAO PAULO — Brazil is poised to take its place among the world's petro-powers. Estimates of its newfound oil reserves place it in eighth place among oil-producing nations, ahead of Nigeria as well as Brazil's rival for influence in Latin America, Venezuela. Such newfound wealth is normally a source of celebration. But Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, perhaps fearing the infamous "resource curse" that has blighted the development of so many countries blessed with mineral ... Foreign News Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:23:31 GMT http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/oil-in-brazil-t617.htm#30825 http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/oil-in-brazil-t617.htm http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/hugo-chavez-on-us-financial-crisis-t601.htm BobOng Mod PARIS, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez took a fresh swipe at his arch foe the United States on Friday, saying Washington was unable to handle the financial crisis and wanted to use a worthless dollar to own the world. The leader of South America's biggest oil exporting country had just met French President Nicolas Sarkozy on a visit that had already taken him to Cuba, China, and Russia. "The Americans harass us and attack us... (they) want to buy the world with ... Foreign News Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:09:57 GMT http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/hugo-chavez-on-us-financial-crisis-t601.htm#30237 http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/hugo-chavez-on-us-financial-crisis-t601.htm http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/president-musharraf-resigns-t563.htm Punong Abala ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- The events leading up to embattled Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's resignation Monday may have left him with no other choice. Last year, amid growing Islamist violence and massive shortages, Musharraf took the unpopular step of bringing the country briefly under emergency rule and sacked a number of judges for fear they might question the constitutionality of his winning a second term. Those actions triggered massive public protests against ... Foreign News Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:36:58 GMT http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/president-musharraf-resigns-t563.htm#26588 http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/president-musharraf-resigns-t563.htm http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/cuba-health-care-paradise-t524.htm Jhuly Cuba's Cure by Sarah van Gelder Why is Cuba exporting its health care miracle to the world's poor? Cubans say they offer health care to the world's poor because they have big hearts. But what do they get in return? They live longer than almost anyone in Latin America. Far fewer babies die. Almost everyone has been vaccinated, and such scourges of the poor as parasites, TB, malaria, even HIV/AIDS are rare or non-existent. Anyone can see a ... Foreign News Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:38:33 GMT http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/cuba-health-care-paradise-t524.htm#23443 http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/cuba-health-care-paradise-t524.htm http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/leaders-beg-for-zimbabwe-solution-t439.htm Punong Abala Violence Escalates After Near 4-Week Delay of Election Results HARARE, Zimbabwe, APRIL 22, 2008 - Christian leaders in Zimbabwe today voiced a desperate appeal for a solution to the escalating crisis in the Southeast African nation. Leaders of the Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe, the Catholic episcopal conference, and the Zimbabwe Council of Churches issued a joint statement expressing "deep concern over the deteriorating political, security, economic and human rights situation in Zimbabwe ... Foreign News Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:11:51 GMT http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/leaders-beg-for-zimbabwe-solution-t439.htm#14853 http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/leaders-beg-for-zimbabwe-solution-t439.htm http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/afraid-of-peace-t415.htm Punong Abala The Main Obstacle to Peace Is the Fear of Peace ROME, APRIL 1, 2008.- The retiring patriarch of Jerusalem has completed his mission as the leader of the Latin Church in the Holy Land, a mission he characterized as very difficult for his entire 20-year tenure. Archbishop Michel Sabbah offered an interview to the news service of the Custody of the Holy Land reflecting on the conflict that has plagued the region he led as pastor since his appointment in 1987. The Nazareth-born prelate, ... Foreign News Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:14:45 GMT http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/afraid-of-peace-t415.htm#13356 http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/afraid-of-peace-t415.htm http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/slain-prelate-sowed-justice-in-martyred-iraq-t400.htm Jhuly Benedict XVI Offers Memorial Mass for Archbishop Rahho VATICAN CITY, MARCH 17, 2008 - The kidnapped archbishop of Mosul found dead last week was a man who contributed to bringing justice to his martyred country and the whole world, says Benedict XVI. The Pope affirmed this today when he celebrated a memorial Mass in the Vatican for the soul of Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho of Mosul of the Chaldeans, Iraq. Archbishop Rahho was kidnapped Feb. 29 in a shoot-out that resulted in the deaths ... Foreign News Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:18:33 GMT http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/slain-prelate-sowed-justice-in-martyred-iraq-t400.htm#12870 http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/slain-prelate-sowed-justice-in-martyred-iraq-t400.htm http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/raping-a-filipina-t376.htm Jhuly The reported sexual assault on a Filipino woman by an American serviceman in Okinawa was not the first rape case reported but the second incident that has occurred in the Japanese island. In July 8, 2004, United States Marine Corps Maj. Michael Brown was convicted by a Japanese court of attempted sexual assault on a 40-year-old Filipino woman bartender in 2002. The case received extensive attention from the Japanese media and sparked debates anew on the presence of American troops in Japan ... Foreign News Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:45:07 GMT http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/raping-a-filipina-t376.htm#11757 http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/raping-a-filipina-t376.htm http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/traubles-in-pakistan-t123.htm Jhuly LAHORE, Pakistan (CNN) -- The United States has urged Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf to sever his links with the military and reinstate civilian rule. Police confront lawyers protesting aginst the state of emergency in Lahore on Monday. "Our hope is that he will restore democracy as quickly as possible," U.S. President George W. Bush said Monday after a White House meeting with Turkey's prime minister. Musharraf's government will discuss a timetable for parliamentary ... Foreign News Tue, 06 Nov 2007 09:05:34 GMT http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/traubles-in-pakistan-t123.htm#638 http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/traubles-in-pakistan-t123.htm http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/un-philippine-army-killed-activists-t195.htm BobOng Mod GENEVA - The Philippine army has killed left-wing activists as part of its military campaign against communist rebels, a U.N. rights expert said Monday. "In some parts of the country, the armed forces have followed a deliberate strategy of systematically hunting down the leaders of leftist organizations," said Philip Alston, a New York University law professor charged by the U.N. Human Rights Council with investigating extra-judicial killings in the Philippines. Alston called ... Foreign News Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:13:17 GMT http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/un-philippine-army-killed-activists-t195.htm#3597 http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/un-philippine-army-killed-activists-t195.htm http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/garbage-crisis-in-an-italian-city-t265.htm Punong Abala By SALVATORE LAPORTA, Associated Press Writer Fri Jan 4, 8:46 PM ET NAPLES, Italy - Stinking mounds of garbage piled up on the streets of Naples on Friday and officials around the country blamed organized crime and bureaucratic red tape for the city's refuse crisis. Effigies of city officials, suspended from lampposts and trees, reflected the fury ... Foreign News Sat, 05 Jan 2008 08:05:37 GMT http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/garbage-crisis-in-an-italian-city-t265.htm#5734 http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/garbage-crisis-in-an-italian-city-t265.htm http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/christmas-tree-survives-atomic-bomb-t253.htm Jhuly By ERIC TALMADGE, Associated Press Writer Fri Dec 21, 1:03 PM ET TOKYO - Warren Nobuaki Iwatake's family has seen more than its share of calamity. When he was still a child his father was lost at sea off Hawaii. With no breadwinner, his family was forced to move to Japan, where Iwatake was drafted during the war. He lost a brother when the bomb fell on Hiroshima. But through it all one thing has remained constant. The tree. His ... Foreign News Sun, 23 Dec 2007 14:47:07 GMT http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/christmas-tree-survives-atomic-bomb-t253.htm#5385 http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/christmas-tree-survives-atomic-bomb-t253.htm http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/one-child-policy-threatening-china-s-growth-t230.htm BobOng Mod Beijing (AsiaNews/Agencies): China's one-child policy is causing higher youth crime and divorce. Increasingly it is coming under attack even from official sources who are concerned that it might threaten the country's economic future. The China Daily recently reported that two-thirds of the four million criminal cases handled annually by courts involve minors. Altogether the number of juvenile delinquents rose from 33,000 in 1998 to 80,000 this year. "Offenders' average ages have become ... Foreign News Thu, 06 Dec 2007 06:19:21 GMT http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/one-child-policy-threatening-china-s-growth-t230.htm#4522 http://kabataangpinoy.heavenforum.com/foreign-news-f19/one-child-policy-threatening-china-s-growth-t230.htm