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Indonesia's Attorney-General Muhammad Prasetyo (right) and Police Chief General Badrodin Haiti (left) arrive at Nusakambangan port in Cilacap after an inspection of Nusakambangan maximum security prison island on Wednesday following the execution of seven foreign drug convicts and an Indonesian man. AFP/Jakarta. |
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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. |
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Authorities put the seven plus a local man to death after midnight (1700 GMT Tuesday) on the high-security prison island of Nusakambangan in central Indonesia, but a Filipina was spared at the 11th hour. "We respect Indonesia's sovereignty but we do deplore what's been done and this cannot be simply.... |
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“While there are many things we can endure, redefining marriage is so fundamental to the natural order and the common good that this is the line we must draw and one we cannot and will not cross,” the pledge states. The signees are a who’s who of religious leaders including former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, former U. |
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Pope Francis gestures as he attends the weekly general audience in St Peter's square at the Vatican on April 22, 2015. AFP PHOTO / FILIPPO MONTEFORTE (Photo credit should read FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP/Getty Images) | FILIPPO MONTEFORTE via Getty Images
The wide gulf between wages for men and women is "pure scandal," Pope Francis said on Wednesday. |
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Cilacap, Indonesia: Indonesia faced a storm of international protest on Wednesday for putting seven foreign drug convicts before a firing squad, but Filipinos rejoiced after a compatriot was spared at the last minute. Australia withdrew its ambassador in protest at what it called “cruel and.... |
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INDEPENDENT MEDIA Mmusi Maimane is calculating now, thinking tactically, like a politician, and not quite the man, as he later insists, who is solely driven by a commitment to principle, says the writer. File photo: David Ritchie Eusebius McKaiser talks sex, drugs and non-racialism with Mmusi Maimane. |
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CILACAP, INDONESIA: 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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Pope Francis said Wednesday that he supports equal pay for men and women who perform the same jobs. The fact that a disparity exists, the pontiff said, is a “pure scandal.” The remarks during his weekly general audience at the Vatican were part of a broader statement on the importance of marriage. |
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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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