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Manila . The last-minute reprieve for a Filipina drug convict facing execution in Indonesia sparked an outpouring of euphoria and disbelief on Wednesday, with crowds weeping with joy and her children crying “Mama will live!” Mary Jane Veloso’s family said their prayers had been answered after it.... |
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Mary Jane Veloso's family said their prayers had been answered after it emerged that the 30-year-old single mother was not among a group of foreign drug convicts sent to the firing squad shortly after midnight. "Miracles do come true," Veloso's mother, Celia, told Manila radio from Indonesia. |
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MANILA // The last-minute reprieve for a Filipina drug convict facing execution in Indonesia sparked an outpouring of euphoria and disbelief on Wednesday, with crowds weeping for joy and her children crying ȁ#x201c;Mama will live!ȁ#x201d; Mary Jane Veloso’s family said their prayers had been.... |
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MANILA, Philippines - The last-minute reprieve for a Filipina drug convict facing execution in Indonesia sparked an outpouring of euphoria and disbelief on Wednesday, with crowds of supporters weeping with joy and her children crying "Mama will live!" Mary Jane Veloso's family said their prayers had.... |
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He said: 'They were in hospital. All their belongings and things were still in the bungalow.' Mr Shepherd and his wife both told the inquest they had seen a boiler room adjacent to the bungalow, next to the children's bedroom and on their second day there, a neighbour came to tell them there were problems with the hot water supply. |
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But gunshots were heard about 12:30 a.m. local time (17:30 GMT) from Nusakambangan island where executions take place, and Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced that Australia will withdraw its ambassador from Jakarta in response to the executions of two Australians, Myuran Sukumaran, 33, and Andrew Chan, 31. |
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EPA An ambulance carries the body of one of the eight death-row prisoners as it drive out from Nusakambangan Island prison in Cilacap. Picture: Adi Weda Jakarta - Indonesia on Wednesday staunchly defended its execution of seven foreigners including two Australians as a vital front of its “war” on.... |
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He said: 'They were in hospital. All their belongings and things were still in the bungalow.' Mr Shepherd and his wife both told the inquest they had seen a boiler room adjacent to the bungalow, next to the children's bedroom and on their second day there, a neighbour came to tell them there were problems with the hot water supply. |
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MANILA/JAKARTA As the clocked ticked on Tuesday towards midnight, the hour when nine drug traffickers were expected to be executed on a high-security prison island in Indonesia, mandarins in the Philippines waited nervously for some word from Jakarta.
There never was a response to a last-ditch.... |
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CILACAP, April 29- Indonesia on Wednesday staunchly defended its execution of seven foreigners including two Australians as a vital front of its “war” on drugs as testimony emerged of how they went singing to their deaths. Australia withdrew its ambassador in protest at the midnight executions, but.... |
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Australia withdrew its ambassador in protest at the midnight executions, but Indonesian President Joko Widodo said he was merely applying “the rule of law” against narcotics traffickers. The seven convicts — two from Australia, one from Brazil and four from Africa — were shot by firing squad along.... |
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