Thousands pay their last respects
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President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo joined yesterday the rest of the Catholic faithful all over the world in grieving over the passing away of Pope John Paul II and declared a period of national mourning until the Pontiff is laid to his final resting place.
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — From every corner of the world, the redrobed "princes" of the Roman Catholic Church headed toward the Vatican yesterday to prepare for the secret duty they were appointed to carry out — gathering in the Sistine Chapel to elect the successor for the late Pope John Paul II.
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Senate President Franklin M. Drilon urged yesterday parliamentarians attending the ongoing 112th Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) general assembly in Manila to support legislation that would make global trade more beneficial, rather than harmful, to the poor.
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At least 23 persons were killed while 26 others were injured in two separate accidents involving passenger buses and jeepneys in Quezon and Pangasinan last Saturday, reports reaching Camp Crame in Quezon City said yesterday.
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VATICAN CITY (AP/AFP) — Pope John Paul II’s funeral will be held Friday morning, and his remains will be interred in the grotto of St. Peter’s Basilica where popes throughout the ages have been laid to rest, the Vatican said Monday.
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Senate President Franklin M. Drilon was elected President of the ongoing 112th Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) General Assembly by the union’s governing council at the start of the convention proper yesterday at the Philippine International Convention Center in Pasay City.
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The Sandiganbayan Special Division cautioned yesterday the prosecutors and the lawyers of former President Joseph Estrada against issuing offensive remarks that "tend to demean the administration of justice.’’
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President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo will return to her hometown of Lubao, Pampanga to celebrate her 58th birth anniversary today but will spend the rest of the day working in Malacañang.
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Thirty passenger buses fueled by compressed natural gas (CNG) are expected to operate within the year, in line with the Department of Science and Technology’s (DoST) Natural Gas Vehicle Program for Public Transport (NGVPPT).
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