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| Manila rejects hostage deadline |
| A Filipino hostage in Iraq slipped into graver peril today after Manila rejected his captors’ demands for an early withdrawal of Filipino troops.
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| Japan polls |
| Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s party looked set to fall short of its target of winning 51 seats in today’s upper house election, most TV exit polls forecast, a s
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| Vatican blacklists Kerry |
| American Catholic bishops are trying to defy secret advice from Rome that Communion should not be given to John Kerry, the Democratic presidential candidate.
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| Miss Universe 2004 Jennifer Hawkins of Australia
with actor Richard Gere at the opening ceremony of the 15th International AIDS
conference in Bangkok on Sunday. (Reuters) |
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