| March 20, 2008 | - Francisco Duque III, the Philippine Secretary of Health, encouraged Roman Catholic worshippers who planned on flaying the skin off their backs or crucifying themselves on Easter to get a tetanus shot first and to use clean whips and nails.
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Daily Telegraph
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| September 16, 2007 | - A dismissed trial-court judge in the Philippines was fighting to be returned to the bench along with his three elves, Angel, Armand, and Luis the Avenger.
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The Wall Street Journal
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| July 30, 2007 | - A lost and distraught lovebird flew amok on a flight from Bangkok to Manila.
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Inquirer via Global Nation
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| March 22, 2007 | -
Gay policemen in Manila were ordered not to swing their hips while on duty.
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MSNBC
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| February 4, 2007 | - Moro rebels in Jolo captured a number of senior Philippine military officers including General Dolorfino, Colonel Ramon, and Colonel Baboon.
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Sun.Star Davao
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| October 10, 2006 | - The Philippines rejected a plan to help a monkey-infested island by importing monkey-eating eagles.
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gulfnews.com
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| May 20, 2006 | - A 4.3-million-square-foot mall opened in the Philippines.
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AP via Yahoo! News
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| February 24, 2006 | -
Philippines President Gloria Arroyo declared emergency rule after an attempted coup by several politicians, military officers, and a former nun.
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Reuters
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| February 20, 2006 | - In Guinsaugon, Philippines, at least 1,371 people were buried in a mudslide. Imelda Marcos promised to visit the region soon.
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Reuters
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| November 3, 2005 | - In the Philippines five U.S. Marines were arrested for raping a woman they met at a karaoke bar.
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BBC News
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| June 3, 2005 | - A group of men in the Philippines, naked save for head scarves and caps, protested cuts in education funding.
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ABS-CBN
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| March 25, 2005 | - Western Christians celebrated Easter. In the Philippines, fourteen men were crucified, one for the nineteenth time.
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The Independent
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| March 9, 2005 | - A badly prepared snack killed twenty-seven children in the Philippines.
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ABC13
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| January 20, 2005 | - A poll of thousands of people in 21 countries revealed that just 26 percent consider Bush a positive global force. Three quarters of respondents in France and Germany and 64 percent of Britons felt that U.S. actions would have a negative impact on the world, and for the first time it appeared that an international dislike of Bush is metamorphosing into a dislike of Americans in general. The three countries that approved of Bush's reelection were the Philippines, Poland, and India.
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The Guardian
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| January 12, 2005 | - A police officer in the Philippines was accused of stealing a fellow officer's bomb-sniffing dog, then eating it.
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Sun Star Davao
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| December 5, 2004 | -
Mudslides killed more than 1,100 in the Philippines.
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New York Times
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| August 11, 2004 | -
Philippine president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo told her countrymen to stop kissing her, and
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Associated Press
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| August 10, 2004 | - four people were arrested in the Philippines for killing, cooking, and eating a relative at a wedding reception.
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Associated Press
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| July 17, 2004 | -
Philippine forces were withdrawn from the country in response to the kidnapping of a truck driver. The Bush Administration was not pleased.
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CNN
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| April 9, 2004 | - A Christian was crucified (for the 17th time) in the Philippines.
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Reuters
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| January 5, 2004 | - At least eleven people were killed and 68 were wounded when a bomb blew up at a basketball game in the Philippines.
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The Australian
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| December 24, 2003 | - Hundreds of Filipinos were buried in landslides.
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Malaya.com.ph
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| October 19, 2003 | - President George W. Bush traveled to Asia and gave a speech in Manila comparing Iraq to the Philippines, a former U.S. colony that was "liberated" from Spain in 1898 and occupied for 48 years. Bush said that the Philippines, which he called "the oldest democracy in Asia," should be seen as the model for a new democratic Iraq, and then quickly left the country because of security concerns.
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New York Times
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| September 5, 2003 | - There were rumors of a coup plot in the Philippines.
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New York Times
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| December 4, 2001 | - Somalia, Yemen, Sudan, Libya, the Philippines, Indonesia, and North Korea were also being mentioned as future targets.
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| October 23, 2001 | -
Prostitutes were descending on Angeles City in the Philippines in preparation for the arrival of American troops.
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| October 9, 2001 | -
Islamic rebels in the Philippines attacked the capital city of the island of Basilan.
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| June 26, 2001 | - Mayor Lito Atienza of Manila caught fire during a public burning of pornography and gambling machines.
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| February 13, 2001 | - Joseph Estrada, the former president of the Philippines, asked for more time to answer corruption charges but was refused; Estrada is said to be having a hard time finding a lawyer willing to defend him.
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| February 13, 2001 | - Political violence continued in Afghanistan, China, Colombia, Congo, Ecuador, Guinea, Indonesia, Iran, Kashmir, Liberia, Nigeria, Palestine, the Philippines, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Zimbabwe, and elsewhere.
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| February 6, 2001 | -
President Bush called the new president of the Philippines and remarked that “we are the two freshest faces in the presidential ranks.” He also noted that “it's about past seven in the evening here, so we're actually in different time lines.” Former Philippine president Joseph Estrada, a recent victim of People Power, affirmed that he was still legally president; his successor told him to give up his “evil designs.” “You cannot win against the people,” she said. “I shall crush you.”
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| September 5, 2000 | - Abu Sayyaf, a militant Islamic group in the Philippines, received a ransom, arranged by Libya, of $1 million each for six European hostages and reportedly will spend its new fortune on arms, ammunition, 10 motorcycles, and a speedboat; the group also kidnapped an American, whom they said they might behead, and demanded $18 million.
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