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MOSCOW — The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), today, launched its global campaign against impunity in the killing of journalists and media staff at a special session of the IFJ?s World Congress in Moscow, attended by more than 500 representatives of the world?s journalists? community.
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?The Philippines is a disaster area for human rights," Green Party Foreign Affairs spokesman Keith Locke says. "Arroyo should be urged to stop the political carnage that she is currently condoning.?
MANILA, Philippines — Team Unity is filing over 100 cases of electoral fraud in opposition bailiwicks in Metro Manila and elsewhere where the Genuine Opposition (GO) ticket had supposedly won big, and will ask the Commission on Elections to exclude or re-canvass the Certificates of Canvass (COCs) in these areas, TU official said yesterday.
MANILA – Philippine Airlines has increased its planned Boeing 777-300
Extended Range fleet to a total of six aircraft – four on firm order and
two on lease – by exercising its purchase rights on two option airplanes
that were part of the original order last year.
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MANILA ? The Philippine Mission to the United Nations announced that a female Filipino police officer serving with the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Timor Leste was reported injured in a civil disturbance in the capital Dili on 20 May 2007.
In his report to Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto G. Romulo, Philippine Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Hilario G. Davide Jr., identified the injured peacekeeper as Jimeli Valera Acuna, 32, of Taytay, Rizal, and a member of the Philippine police contingent serving with the UN Integrated Mission in Timor Leste (UNMIT).
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