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Nov. 29 (PNA) – A P4.5-million “Kalayaan sa Barangay Program,” or KBP, of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) started over the weekend in San Vicente village, Barangay Canangaan, Cabanglasan town in Bukidnon. Army spokesman Mitchele B. Anayron, Jr.,...

Fight and fight until you wear down the enemy and you defeat them," said Castro. "The objective is to never surrender, never to abandon the fight," local media quoted the Cuban leader as saying. Castro, who has served as head...

ET The Associated Press Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas receives a replica of Venezuelan independence hero Simon Bolivar's sword from Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez in Caracas on Friday. (Ariana Cubillos/Associated Press) Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has dismissed as insufficient...

Relations between the two countries have been badly strained by Colombia's agreement to allow US troops onto its soil to combat drug trafficking. The Union of South American Nations (Unasur) meeting in Ecuador was intended to defuse the row. But...

But Cuban military leaders have insisted in state-run press that Bastion 2009 is "a necessity of the first order in the current political-military situation that characterizes the confrontation between Cuba and the empire (the United States)." They appeared to signal...

Tourism Numbers Are Worst in 30 years Tourism Numbers Are Worst in 30 years, yet Global Hue, a US advertiser, renewed its Government contract in May which was valued at $28 million over two years. Bermuda’s government has struck from...

Jaime Humberto Uscategui's sentence is the longest ever for an army officer in Colombia. The court was told the general had knowingly let far-right paramilitary death squads use his army base. Some 50 unarmed peasants were killed by the militia...

Abbas said on Wednesday that he plans to stay on in his post until the next election is held and that he would be ready to hold the vote as soon as consensus was reached with Hamas, Reuters reported. "If...

Croix man is facing negligent homicide and drunken driving charges following a vehicular accident Sunday night that claimed the life of a 64-year-old man, Lynn Nelson...Rose, 43, of Estate Cane Carlton was taken into custody just before midnight Sunday following...

Venezuela — President Hugo Chavez is hailing the forthcoming arrival of 300 Russian-made tanks and armored vehicles, and urging civilians to join government-organized militias to be ready to defend Venezuela from a foreign invasion. Chavez called on his supporters to...