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  • Philippine Supreme Court suspends cybercrime law

    The Philippine Supreme Court on Tuesday suspended implementation of the country's anti-cybercrime law while it decides whether certain provisions violate civil liberties.


  • World Scene

    JAPANThe United States sent a representative for the first time Tuesday to the annual memorial service for victims of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, one of two nuclear attacks that led Japan to surrender in World War II.


  • World Briefs

    Philippine officials, police face hostage-crisis raps


  • Briefly - Asia

    Philippines official says police may have shot hostages


  • President Benigno Aquino III, center, takes his oath before Supreme Court Associated Justice Conchita Carpio-Morales as the Philippines' 15th President during inaugural ceremony Wednesday June 30, 2010, in Manila, Philippines. Mr. Aquino, the only son of Philippine democracy icons, the late President Corazon Aquino and assassinated opposition leader Sen. Benigno Aquino Jr., won by a landslide in the May 10 automated presidential elections. At right holding the Holy Bible is Jesuit priest Father Catalino Arevalo. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

    Benigno Aquino III sworn in as Philippine leader

    Benigno Aquino III was sworn in Wednesday as the Philippines' 15th president, leading a Southeast Asian nation his late parents helped liberate from dictatorship and which he promises to deliver from poverty and pervasive corruption.


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