MANILA, PhilippinesPresident Benigno Aquino on Friday said the Rizal Park hostage-taking fiasco showed deficiencies in police training and equipment to handle crisis situations, and claimed responsibility for what happened. Mr. Aquino was asked for his reaction to Sen. Francis Escudero's remarks...
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Defence Secretary Liam Fox promised "closer co-operation" with the French as military budgets face being squeezed on both sides of the Channel. Dr Fox, who was in Paris for talks with his French counterpart Herve Morin, said the "tough financial climate" meant it was in the...
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WASHINGTON - Israeli and Palestinian leaders launched their first direct negotiations in 20 months here on Thursday, agreeing to meet every two weeks in a bid to settle core differences within a year. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas vowed to hold a...
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It was meant to be Delhi's moment of glory. By staging the Commonwealth Games successfully in its capital, India wanted to announce to the world that it was an emerging...
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The Amazon river has dropped to its lowest level in 40 years in north-eastern Peru, causing severe economic disruption in a region where it is the main transport route. At least six large boats have been...
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The panel of judges in a mammoth child sex abuse trial in Portugal is to deliver its verdict, more than five years after...
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LONDON - God did not create the universe and the Big Bang was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics, the eminent British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking argues in a new book. In The Grand Design�, co-authored with US physicist Leonard Mlodinow, and due to go on sale next week, Prof...
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