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Typhoon Haiyan: In hard-hit Tacloban, children ripped from arms

http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_embed_2x_container.swf?site=cnn&profile=desktop&context=embedwww&videoId=world/2013/11/10/pkg-stevens-philippines-typhoon-tacloban-city.cnn&contentId=world/2013/11/10/pkg-stevens-philippines-typhoon-tacloban-city.cnn By Andrew Stevens and Paula Hancocks, CNN updated 12:16 AM EST, Sun November 10, 2013  Tacloban, Philippines (CNN) — No building in this coastal city of 200,000 residents appears to have escaped damage […]

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Super Typhoon Haiyan Could Be One Of The Strongest Storms In World History

http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_embed_2x_container.swf?site=cnn&profile=desktop&context=embedwww&videoId=weather/2013/11/07/super-typhoon-haiyan-philippines-stevens-sater.cnn&contentId=weather/2013/11/07/super-typhoon-haiyan-philippines-stevens-sater.cnn Source of post below Huffington Post: From Climate Central’s Andrew Freedman: Super Typhoon Haiyan — which is one of the strongest storms in world history based on maximum windspeed — is about to plow through the Central Philippines, producing a potentially deadly storm surge and dumping heavy rainfall that could […]

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Super Typhoon Haiyan, one of strongest storms ever, heads for central Philippines

http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_embed_2x_container.swf?site=cnn&profile=desktop&context=embedwww&videoId=world/2013/11/07/sot-typhoon-haiyan-philippines-chad-myers-12p.cnn&contentId=world/2013/11/07/sot-typhoon-haiyan-philippines-chad-myers-12p.cnn (CNN) — Thousands of people in vulnerable areas of the Philippines are being relocated as the strongest storm on the planet so far this year spins toward the country. With […]

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Philippine Muslim teachers told to remove veils

MANILA (AFP) – The majority-Catholic Philippines told Muslim teachers Tuesday to remove their veils inside classrooms, in part to promote better relationships between teachers and pupils. Education Secretary Armin Luistro said the move was part of reforms to make schools more sensitive to religion. Muslim schoolgirls will still be allowed […]

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NELSON MANDELA IN MANILA

Inquirer: JOHANNESBURG— As Nelson Mandela remained in critical condition in hospital Friday, a family feud over where the 94-year-old former president should be buried went to the courts, according to South Africa’s national broadcaster. Mandela’s oldest daughter, Makaziwe, and 15 other family members have pressed a court application to get […]

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Picture of the Day-Holy Week flagellation

Hooded flagellants worship during holy week in Pampanga province, Philippines. It looks mighty painful, but for these religious worshipers flagellation is a necessary act of mortification in which they scourge themselves by whipping their own flesh. Although the bloody practice is condemned by the Catholic church and frowned upon in […]

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Syria rebels free 21 Filipino UN peacekeepers abducted in Golan Heights

Source: globalpost, by Allison Jackson. Twenty-one UN peacekeepers held hostage by Syrian rebels for four days have been freed. The Filipino peacekeepers arrived in Jordan from neighboring Syria on Saturday, Agence France-Presse reported,citing a Jordanian government spokesman and the Philippines ambassador in Amman. Rebels fighting the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad abducted […]