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                    [Title] => Arroyo to congratulate Aussie PM in due time, says Bunye
                    [Summary] => President Arroyo will send her congratulations "in due time" to re-elected Australian Prime Minister John Howard, who has chided the Chief Executive for pulling out Filipino troops from Iraq last July, Malacañang said yesterday.


Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye said the Philippines and Australia may disagree on certain policy matters, but that the two countries remain allies in the war against terrorism.


"I’m sure in due time the President will be sending her congratulatory message to Prime Minister Howard," he told reporters.


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                    [Title] => Lawmakers back Baja’s retention in UN post
                    [Summary] => Crossing partylines, at least 60 lawmakers signed yesterday a manifesto urging Pre-sident Arroyo to retain Ambassador Lauro Baja as the country’s permanent representative to the United Nations.


Pulling out Baja to be replaced by outgoing Foreign Affairs Secretary Delia Albert would send a wrong message to the international community, said Surigao del Norte Rep. Robert Ace Barbers, Camarines Sur Rep. Felix Alfelor and Cagayan de Oro Rep. Constantino Jaraula, who represented the signatories in a press conference.


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                    [Title] => Norway: No stand on delisting CPP-NPA
                    [Summary] => Norway remains neutral in the efforts of Philippine communists to be removed from a list of international terrorist groups, its embassy in Manila said yesterday.


Charge d’Affaires Lars Loberg denied a report published in The STAR last Thursday quoting him as saying that any move by Manila to help the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its armed wing, the New People’s Army (NPA), remove the terrorist tag pinned on them by the United States and the European Union would help in peace talks.


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                    [Title] => Albert insists no troop return to Iraq
                    [Summary] => Foreign Affairs Secretary Delia Albert reiterated yesterday that the Philippine government has no plan to send another humanitarian contingent to Iraq.


During the regular breakfast forum of the Manila Overseas Press Club at the Ristorante La Dolce Fontana in Greenhills, San Juan yesterday, Albert said that there were "never any talks about sending troops" to Iraq during her meeting last Monday with United States Ambassador  Francis Ricciardone.


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                    [Title] => Pinas,US bati na !
                    [Summary] => Matatag pa rin ang relasyon ng Pilipinas at Estados Unidos!


Ito ang joint statement kahapon nina Foreign Affairs Secretary Delia Albert at US Ambassador Francis Ricciardone sa kanilang pag-uusap sa DFA bilang sagot sa ipinahayag ng US State Department na tinanggal na ng Amerika ang Pilipinas sa listahan ng mga bansa na kabilang sa Coalition of the Willing sa Iraq.


Nilinaw ni Ricciardone na nagkaroon lamang ng "serious disagreement" sa kaso ng humanitarian contingent na pinaatras sa Iraq kapalit ng kaligtasan ng Pinoy truck driver na si Angelo dela Cruz. Sumusuway kasi ito sa kagustuhan ng pamahalaang US dahil kontra raw sa pakikibaka sa international terrorism.
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                    [Title] => ‘Ka Turing’ laid to rest at Libingan
                    [Summary] => Former vice president Arturo Tolentino was laid to rest at the Libingan ng mga Bayani at Fort Bonifacio in Makati City at high noon yesterday, following state funeral rites honoring him as one of the country’s best parliamentarians.


In an ironic twist, Tolentino’s final resting place lies right beside that of former Vice President Salvador Laurel, who passed away last Jan. 27. Tolentino and Laurel were former allies at the Kilusang Bagong Lipunan, but ran against each other for vice president in the 1986 snap elections.


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                    [Title] => ‘RP-US relations remain good’
                    [Summary] => Despite differences between the Philippines and the United States over the early withdrawal of Filipino troops from Iraq, relations between the two countries remain strong, a foreign affairs official said yesterday.


Speaking at the regular breakfast forum of the Manila Overseas Press Club at the Ristorante La Dolce Fontana in Greenhills, San Juan, Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Franklin Ebdalin said it is normal for countries to clash occasionally over policy decisions since each country has different interests to uphold.


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                    [Title] => Protesters pelt Aussie embassy with marshmallows
                    [Summary] => Protesters hurled marshmallows at photos of Australia’s prime minister and foreign minister yesterday in a rally to vent their anger over Canberra’s repeated criticism that Manila’s pullout from Iraq encourages terrorism.


More than a dozen protesters carried placards denouncing Australian Prime Minister John Howard and Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, who have blamed the Philippines for setting a bad precedent by giving in to the demand of Iraqi insurgents threatening to kill a Filipino hostage.


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                    [Title] => Two icons
                    [Summary] => The case of Angelo de la Cruz will go down in history as a phenomenal episode in the long and still unending pathetic saga of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs). The volume of worldwide publicity focused on the story  reminds one of  the Sarah Balabagan case. Sarah was a teenage Filipino who was sentenced to die on the charge of murdering her Arab employer. But the Philippine government was able to negotiate her execution and return to the Philippines. She had at that time become a heroine.


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                    [Title] => Palace mum on reported ransom to Angelo’s kidnappers
                    [Summary] => Malacañang invoked yesterday the government’s "news blackout" policy on the hostage crisis in the wake of reports detailing the alleged payment of a $6-million ransom to Iraqi militants for the release of Filipino truck driver Angelo de la Cruz.


The Land Bank of the Philippines belied the reports, which claimed the bank released $1 million while the Malaysian government allegedly shelled out $5 million. 


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FOREIGN AFFAIRS SECRETARY DELIA ALBERT

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Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye said the Philippines and Australia may disagree on certain policy matters, but that the two countries remain allies in the war against terrorism.


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Pulling out Baja to be replaced by outgoing Foreign Affairs Secretary Delia Albert would send a wrong message to the international community, said Surigao del Norte Rep. Robert Ace Barbers, Camarines Sur Rep. Felix Alfelor and Cagayan de Oro Rep. Constantino Jaraula, who represented the signatories in a press conference.


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Nilinaw ni Ricciardone na nagkaroon lamang ng "serious disagreement" sa kaso ng humanitarian contingent na pinaatras sa Iraq kapalit ng kaligtasan ng Pinoy truck driver na si Angelo dela Cruz. Sumusuway kasi ito sa kagustuhan ng pamahalaang US dahil kontra raw sa pakikibaka sa international terrorism.
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Speaking at the regular breakfast forum of the Manila Overseas Press Club at the Ristorante La Dolce Fontana in Greenhills, San Juan, Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Franklin Ebdalin said it is normal for countries to clash occasionally over policy decisions since each country has different interests to uphold.


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