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Philippine’s Marcos Jr sworn in, praises rule of dictator father
Published on 30/06/2022
» Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr on Thursday praised his dictator father's rule after being sworn in as the country's new leader, completing a decades-long effort to restore the clan to the country's highest office.
Marcos Jr to be sworn in as Philippine president
AFP, Published on 30/06/2022
» MANILA - The son of the Philippines' late dictator Ferdinand Marcos will be sworn in as president Thursday, completing a decades-long effort to restore the clan to the country's highest office.
Philippines Supreme Court rejects last bid to thwart incoming president Marcos
Published on 28/06/2022
» MANILA: Philippines Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a final bid to disqualify President-elect Ferdinand Marcos from last month's election, local media reported, clearing the way for his inauguration later this week.
Marcos heir to oversee hunt for loot if he wins Philippines presidency
Published on 03/05/2022
» Nearly 40 years after the Philippines began hunting for the billions of dollars plundered during former dictator Ferdinand Marcos's regime, much of the loot is still missing and no one in the family has been jailed.
Jerusalem church glows in 'Holy Fire' ritual attended by thousands
AFP, Published on 24/04/2022
» JERUSALEM - Thousands on Saturday celebrated the traditional "Holy Fire" ceremony of blazing candles at Christianity's holiest site in Jerusalem to mark the eve of Orthodox Easter.
Pope condemns 'unspeakable horror' of nuclear weapons at Nagasaki
AFP, Published on 24/11/2019
» NAGASAKI, Japan: Pope Francis railed against the use of nuclear weapons and the growing arms trade on Sunday as he paid tribute to the "unspeakable horror" suffered by victims of the Nagasaki atomic bomb.
George HW Bush dies at age 94
Associated Press, Published on 01/12/2018
» HOUSTON: George HW Bush, a patrician New Englander whose presidency soared with the coalition victory over Iraq in Kuwait, but then plummeted in the throes of a weak economy that led voters to turn him out of office after a single term, has died. He was 94.
Cambodia's Buddhist clergy divided over controversial poll
AFP, Published on 28/07/2018
» PHNOM PENH - Buddhist monk Sao Chanthol will cast his ballot for Cambodia's ruling party on Sunday, but the vote has exposed a deep fracture in the 60,000-strong clergy with some planning to stay home to protest a ban on the opposition in what is now effectively a one-party state.
Marcos critics strip, parade coffins in Philippines
AFP, Published on 25/11/2016
» MANILA - Critics of the Ferdinand Marcos regime staged a naked protest Friday, while others marched through the streets with a mock coffin to denounce the late dictator's burial at the Philippines' cemetery for heroes.
Pope slams 'deafening silence of indifference' to war victims
AFP, Published on 20/09/2016
» ASSISI (ITALY) - Pope Francis slammed the "deafening silence of indifference" of the world to the suffering of war victims on Tuesday as he prayed with faith leaders for an end to religious fanaticism.