Manila deploys more troops to search for priest
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Dozens of U.S.-trained commandos have joined the search for an Italian Roman Catholic priest taken captive by Muslim gunmen in the troubled southern Philippines, the country's military chief said on Thursday.
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Police in Haiti detained a priest on suspicion of links to violence, while ex-soldiers who carried out a bloody revolt against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide said reinforcements were headed for the capital to help put down clashes that have killed at least 48 people.
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Elite Austrian commandos and bomb squads checked venues and equipment Thursday, the eve of Pope Benedict XVI's arrival, and authorities said more than 3,500 police officers and soldiers were being deployed for the pontiff's visit.
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BELEM, Brazil  - Brazil mobilized some 2,000  troops in the Amazon rain forest on Wednesday to curb death  squads blamed for the deaths of an American nun, a union leader  and two workers in land battles in the last four days.
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The Catholic Church has issued guidelines on what Filipinos should wear to mass in Manila after some parishioners complained about distracting skimpy attire.
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The United Nations relief agency has called for more international troops to be sent to the flood-devastated Haitian city of Gonaives to secure the delivery of emergency food supplies.
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Philippine security forces hunted on  Tuesday for the bombers behind blasts in Manila and two other  cities that killed 11 people on Valentine's Day, while  investigating a Muslim rebel claim of responsibility.
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THE PHILIPPINES on Wednesday ordered all its embassies abroad to be on heightened alert after its mission in Sweden was threatened with a terrorist attack, the foreign office said.
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An Italian priest is abducted by armed men near a coastal village in the southern Philippines.
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The Philippine military appears to have been responsible for many of the hundreds of extra-judicial killings in the country, a U.N. investigator said on Wednesday.
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Philippine rescuers resumed digging at dawn on Friday, hoping to find more survivors after four were pulled from a building that collapsed 11 days ago during a fierce storm.
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As many as 1,000 people are dead or missing, and another 160,000 have been displaced as the second typhoon in a week tracks over the eastern Philippines.
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Philippine President Gloria Arroyo yesterday ordered the replacement of soldiers and police guarding a farm controlled by the family of former president Corazon Aquino after deadly riots involving striking workers claimed as many as seven lives.
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Philippine security forces were on high  alert on Tuesday and investigating claims by Muslim rebels  after explosions in Manila and two southern cities killed at  least 11 people on Valentine's Day.
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Police jailed a priest on suspicion of links to violence while ex-soldiers who carried out a bloody revolt against president Jean-Bertrand Aristide said reinforcements were gathering in Haiti&#39;s capital to help put down clashes
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MANILA: Over 900 people were dead or missing after a storm triggered landslides and floods in the Philippines this week, rescuers announced on Thursday as a new and even more powerful typhoon approached the main island of Luzon.
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Troops are on the streets of the Philippine capital ahead of a rally set to demand President Arroyo's resignation.