INQ7 Breaking News http://news.inq7.net/breaking 2008-01-31T15:00:21+08:00 text/html 2006-06-22T15:24:00+08:00 http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=1&story_id=80039 http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=1&story_id=80039 GUESS who was at the 80th birthday lunch of Queen Elizabeth II last week? Apart from royalty and other dignitaries, a Filipina met with the British monarch for the second time. She is Lady Aurea Taguiang. text/html 2006-06-22T14:26:00+08:00 http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=1&story_id=80037 http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=1&story_id=80037 (UPDATE) AROUND 150 lawyers and law students reached the foot of historic Mendiola Bridge around 2:15 p.m. Thursday afternoon in defiance of a government no permit-no rally policy that designates the area a no-rally zone. text/html 2006-06-22T14:23:00+08:00 http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=1&story_id=80036 http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=1&story_id=80036 SENATE President Franklin Drilon has closed the door to the 2006 budget and said that when Congress resumes session on July 24, focus will be on the 2007 budget, which President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has until August 24 to submit. text/html 2006-06-22T12:14:00+08:00 http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=1&story_id=80025 http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=1&story_id=80025 (UPDATE) ORGANIZATIONS and individuals seeking the ouster of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo formally launched on Thursday the 'Citizen's Impeachment Case” to drumbeat the new complaint they will file on Monday. text/html 2006-06-22T12:14:00+08:00 http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=1&story_id=80026 http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=1&story_id=80026 PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has ordered the deployment of more troops in areas where communist rebels collect "revolutionary taxes" from businessmen. text/html 2006-06-22T12:32:00+08:00 http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=1&story_id=80028 http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=1&story_id=80028 A TWO-MAN team from the Philippine embassy in Abuja, Nigeria is already in Port Harcourt in southern Nigeria to monitor the efforts of the employer and Nigerian authorities to secure the release of two Filipinos abducted on Tuesday. text/html 2006-06-22T11:58:00+08:00 http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=1&story_id=80024 http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=1&story_id=80024 DELEGATES to a conference of Asian and Europe Liberal Democrats that opens in Manila Thursday condemned the continued political killings of Leftist militants. text/html 2006-06-22T10:25:00+08:00 http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=1&story_id=80018 http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=1&story_id=80018 OVER 100 Liberal Democrats from 30 countries will meet this Thursday to discuss economic and security challenges facing their nations, including the killings of militant leaders and journalists in the Philippines, a statement from Senate President Franklin Drilon's office said. text/html 2006-06-22T10:10:00+08:00 http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=1&story_id=80017 http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=1&story_id=80017 FORMER senator Gregorio 'Gringo” Honasan has no intention to come out of hiding and turn himself in even though three of his alleged accomplices in a shortlived mutiny in Makati City three years ago had been arrested, a senator close to him said. text/html 2006-06-22T09:58:00+08:00 http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=1&story_id=80016 http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=1&story_id=80016 LAGOS -- Nigerian authorities vowed Wednesday to find and free two Filipino oil workers who were kidnapped a day earlier by unknown militants in the country's oil-producing heartland. text/html 2006-06-22T11:35:00+08:00 http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=2&story_id=80022 http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=2&story_id=80022 (UPDATE) AMID reports of fresh reports of terrorist threats, security around President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and in Metro Manila has been tightened, authorities said. text/html 2006-06-22T13:22:00+08:00 http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=2&story_id=80031 http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=2&story_id=80031 COTABATO CITY – The head of the police task force formed to investigate the murders of journalist couple George and Mazel Vigo has accused the New People's Army (NPA) for the killings. The Vigos were on their way home Monday afternoon in Kidapawan City when waylaid and shot by two motorcycle-riding men in. text/html 2006-06-22T13:05:00+08:00 http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=2&story_id=80030 http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=2&story_id=80030 LUCENA CITY-- A farmer and his son have been missing since June 17 in Calauag town in Quezon province after they were abducted by a group of armed men in military uniforms, an official of the militant human rights group Karapatan said Thursday. text/html 2006-06-22T11:27:00+08:00 http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=2&story_id=80021 http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=2&story_id=80021 THE INTEGRATED Bar of the Philippines (IBP) has asked the Supreme Court to compel Manila Mayor Lito Atienza to allow them to hold a rally in Mendiola this Thursday, according to its president. text/html 2006-06-22T10:34:00+08:00 http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=2&story_id=80019 http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=2&story_id=80019 ILAGAN -- Communist guerrillas disguised as soldiers raided the home of a northern Philippine town mayor, seizing firearms but harming no one, the rebels and the military said Thursday. text/html 2006-06-22T15:26:00+08:00 http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=3&story_id=80040 http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=3&story_id=80040 BEIJING -- China said on Thursday that it was very concerned about a potential missile test by North Korea and urged greater action by all parties to resolve the issue. text/html 2006-06-22T15:17:00+08:00 http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=3&story_id=80038 http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=3&story_id=80038 SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea's Supreme Court ruled Thursday that people who have sex change operations should be legally recognized by their new gender -- the first such ruling by the country's top court. text/html 2006-06-22T10:57:00+08:00 http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=3&story_id=80020 http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=3&story_id=80020 SINJAI, Indonesia – (UPDATE) The death toll after floods and landslides in Indonesia's South Sulawesi province hit 190 Thursday and more than 120 people remained missing, a disaster management official said. text/html 2006-06-22T14:13:00+08:00 http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=3&story_id=80035 http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=3&story_id=80035 SYDNEY -- Prime Minister John Howard on Thursday announced a new and more risky role for Australian troops in Iraq after the withdrawal of the Japanese military engineers they have been guarding. text/html 2006-06-22T14:07:00+08:00 http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=3&story_id=80034 http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=3&story_id=80034 BAGHDAD -- Deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has gone on hunger strike to protest the killing of his lawyer, his lead lawyer Khalil al-Dulaimi said Thursday. text/html 2006-06-22T13:41:00+08:00 http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=3&story_id=80033 http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=3&story_id=80033 JAKARTA -- A 5.2-magnitude earthquake on Thursday shook the eastern Indonesian island of Seram in Maluku province, but there were no reports of casualties or damage, the meteorology office here said. text/html 2006-06-22T13:39:00+08:00 http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=3&story_id=80032 http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=3&story_id=80032 SYDNEY, Australia -- Nicole Kidman's son and daughter with ex-husband Tom Cruise became the latest notables Thursday to arrive in Australia for the Oscar-winning actress's star-studded marriage. text/html 2006-06-22T12:56:00+08:00 http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=3&story_id=80029 http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=3&story_id=80029 PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia -- Malaysia officially declared itself free of bird flu Thursday, three months after the last outbreak of the virulent H5N1 strain was detected in chickens in a northern village. text/html 2006-06-22T12:22:00+08:00 http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=3&story_id=80027 http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=3&story_id=80027 SYDNEY -- Australian pop princess Kylie Minogue will resume her "Showgirl" tour later this year, 18 months after it was postponed when she was diagnosed with breast cancer, the promoters said Thursday. text/html 2006-06-22T11:42:00+08:00 http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=3&story_id=80023 http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=3&story_id=80023 WASHINGTON -- The United States ruled out direct talks with North Korea over test firing a long-range ballistic missile as worldwide concern intensified over Pyongyang's readiness for a launch.