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(Update) Gov't-MILF talks on Moro homeland collapse

Reuters - 7/26/2008 12:49:52 AM

KUALA LUMPUR/MANILA - The Philippine government and the largest Muslim rebel group failed to reach a pact on Friday to create an ancestral home for 3 million Muslims in the country's south, both sides said. "The talks collapsed because the government was undoing already-settled issues. The signing ceremony set for August 5 was cancelled," Mohaqher Iqbal, chief negotiator of the MILF, told Reuters.

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Kidnap: Facing Death

Last of three parts

For the first days, my cell phone, with Smart as the service provider, was used by our captors to contact my family, and for their own use as well. By the third or fourth day, the battery of my cell phone was used up. They transferred my SIM card to one of their phones and continued to use my line. The group would send a messenger from time to time to charge the phone, I assumed, to a nearby village.
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First part: Kidnap: Days of captivity in the depths of Sulu Second part: Kidnap: Ransom and guns
Days of captivity in the depths of Sulu
KIDNAP, the documentary on the abduction in Sulu of ABS-CBN broadcast journalist Ces Drilon and her crew by the Abu Sayyaf Group, will be replayed on ANC on:

Saturday, July 19, 3.30 pm
Sunday, July 20, 10.30 pm

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a documentary on the abduction in Sulu of ABS-CBN broadcast journalist Ces Drilon and her crew by the Abu Sayyaf Group, will be aired on ABS-CBN (Channel 2) on Sunday, July 13, 10:05pm.

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'High world oil, food prices made worse by bad governance'

Three days before President Arroyo’s State of the Nation Address in Congress, former Cabinet members and senior officials said Friday that it’s not just high world oil and food prices that are behind the current socio-economic crisis but Arroyo's bad governance as well.

More than 80 ex-high-ranking government officials who have banded under the group FSGO—Former Senior Government Officials—said the state of the nation is characterized by food insecurity, worsening poverty and inequality, deteriorating social services, widespread corruption, and abuse of presidential privileges.
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Rains/ Monsoon Rains Issued At: 5 p.m.
At 2 p.m. Friday, Tropical Storm "IGME" was estimated based on satellite and surface data at 920 kms northeast of Aparri, Cagayan ( 21.9°N, 130.6°E) with maximum sustained winds of 75 kph near the center and gustiness of 90 kph. It is moving west northwest at 11 kph. Moderate to occasionally strong southwesterly surface windflow prevailing over Luzon and the western sections of Visayas and Mindanao.

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