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| Emergency in Manila |
| Coup bid foiled: Military |
| President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo declared emergency rule in the Philippines today after the military said it foiled a coup attempt, but analysts criticised the move as unwarranted and potentially damaging to the economy.
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| Tense Iraqis ponder future |
| Iraqis spoke fearfully of their future today after a curfew failed to halt a wave of revenge killings that has claimed more than 200 lives in Baghdad alone in the two days si
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| Nazi jibe puts mayor in spot |
| London’s feisty mayor Ken Livingstone was suspended for a month today for comparing a Jewish reporter to a concentration camp guard, a verdict the mayor said struck
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| Pak hawk held before protests |
| Pakistani authorities detained the head of the country’s main Islamist Opposition alliance today for the second time in a week to prevent him from leading protests over
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| Nigeria riots |
| Muslim and Christian mobs took to the streets of three Nigerian cities today and killed at least four people, extending a week of tit-for-tat religious riots that have claime
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