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JAKARTA - Indonesia has begun to tap the Philippine tourism market as part of its efforts to expand its tourism business in ASEAN, a tourism official said. "We have begun tapping the Philippine tourism market this year. We will conduct a number of tourism promotion activities in the Philippines next September," Deputy Director for ASEAN region of the Ministry of Tourism and Culture,

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund has been hit by a cyber attack on its computer systems, an IMF spokesman said on Saturday, highlighting a growing rash of network break-ins at high-profile institutions."The fund is fully functional," said IMF spokesman David Hawley. "I can confirm that we are investigating an incident. I am not in a position to elaborate further on the

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AP – Junrey Balawing poses for a Guinness World Records-hired photographer after a series of measurement conducted …SINDANGAN, Philippines – Officials say a Filipino about two feet tall is expected to be named the world's shortest man when he turns 18 on Sunday.Lolit Homay, municipal health officer in Zamboanga del Norte province's Sindangan township, says Junrey Balawing was

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HIT: A medic tends to one of the five victims yesterday at Brighton Beach, which was packed with kids enjoying a day off. Teen slain & 4 men hurt as gunfire erupts on Brighton Beach A teenage girl was killed and four men wounded after bullets started flying yesterday on the Brighton Beach boardwalk, where thousands of young people had flocked to spend a school holiday in the sun. "It

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Multiplatinum-selling rapper Ja Rule is set to go to prison, but he's leaving fans with an album on the way. The rapper-actor — whose gravelly voice, thuggish tough talk and duets with R&B divas made him one of rap's stars in the early 2000s — is set to be sentenced Wednesday to two years in a New York prison. "My last day out," he tweeted Tuesday afternoon, adding that he was spending it

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TRIPOLI (AFP) – A wave of NATO air strikes battered Tripoli Wednesday, piling pressure on embattled Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi who said he was "near" the bombing but vowed never to surrender.Loud blasts were heard near Kadhafi's residential complex Bab al-Aziziya at around 1:45 am (2345 GMT Tuesday), an AFP correspondent said. A little later the city was shaken by more powerful explosions.On

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Offended by Rick Santorum's assertion that President Obama is not feared by America's enemies, ABC anchor George Stephanopoulos stuck up for the President Monday and pressed Santorum to give evidence to his claim. The former Pennsylvania senator was announcing his bid for the presidency on ABC's Good Morning America, and Stephanopoulos hit him early and often during the interview. "You've also

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Hot off of his season-ending "Saturday Night Live" hosting gig,Justin Timberlake is still bringing the funny. It fact, he brought it all the way to Los Angeles and the stage of the MTV Movie Awards when he and co-presenter Mila Kunis pulled off straight-faced gropes while presenting the Best Male Performance award --Robert Pattinson won, though that's kind of beside the point.

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Since HIV was discovered 30 years ago this week, 30 million people have died from the disease, and it continues to spread at the rate of 7,000 people per day globally, the UN says.There's not much good news when it comes to this devastating virus. But that is perhaps why the story of the man scientists call the "Berlin patient" is so remarkable and has generated so much excitement among the

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There's a major fire at an ammunition storage depot in Central Russia. It's triggered a series of explosions and injured 57. Two elderly people have died from heart attacks, said to have been brought on by the incident. Thirty thousand people made up of military personnel and local residents have been forced to leave the immediate area.

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NEW YORK - Profile of Shaquille O'Neal, who announced his retirement from the NBA on Wednesday. Born in New Jersey in 1972, he caught the eye of NBA scouts when he was at Louisania State University, and was selected by the Orlando Magic as the number one pick in the 1992 NBA Draft. He was Rookie of the year in 1993 and NBA scoring champion in 1995. In 1996, he joined the Los Angeles Lakers,

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SANAA, Yemen -- Street battles between Yemeni government forces and armed tribesmen killed dozens of people Wednesday in this country teetering on the brink of civil war, forcing residents to cower in basements or brave gunfire to fetch bread and water.Nearly four months of mass protests calling for President Ali Abdullah Saleh's ouster have exacerbated already dire poverty, shuttering

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AP – Miami Heat's LeBron James (6) dribbles as Dallas Mavericks' Peja Stojakovic (16) defends during the first  MIAMI – Dwyane Wade's night began with a hug for his mom. It ended with an embrace from LeBron James.And the Miami Heat have struck first in the NBA finals.James scored 24 points for his first win in five finals-game appearances, Wade added 22 points and 10 rebounds

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Was it an unknown marine monster that raised its head above the surface of the River Mersey in England on May 25? And what was the mysterious 7-foot-long creature that washed ashore near New York's famous Brooklyn Bridge on May 21?Creature sightings, like UFOs, certainly create a sense of wonder and excitement -- until they're actually identified, stripping away the sense of something truly

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AP – In this Saturday, May 28, 2011 photo, John Bishop, executive director of the Massachusetts-based Organ … JOHNS CREEK, Ga. – The soaring sounds of a pipe organ silenced when dust from the collapsing World Trade Center invaded its church sanctuary nearly a decade ago could soon fill a place of worship once again.The historic instrument was dismantled and put in storage days

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AP – File -- In a Feb. 8, 2011 file photo Sean Kingston arrives at the premiere of the documentary film 'Justin  MIAMI – Authorities say rapper Sean Kingston is hospitalized after a crashing a personal watercraft into a Miami Beach bridge.Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spokesman Jorge Pino says Kingston and a female passenger were injured when the watercraft

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A slowdown in global trade has has a negative affect on the Philippines economy The country's economy grew by a 'modest' 4.9% in the three months to March compared with the same period last year, the latest government data showed. Compared with the previous three months the economy grew by 1.9%.The Philippines is targeting annual growth of 7.8% for this year.However analysts said that given

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The President of the Abkhazian Republic has died. Sergey Bagapsh, who was 62, passed away early on Sunday morning in a Moscow hospital. He underwent a complex surgery to treat lung cancer, but suffered complications. Bagapsh had led the country towards independence from neighbouring Georgia, which it achieved following a war in 2008. The Abkhazian vice-president will take over in an acting role

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 AP – The tombstone of Uttamlal 'Tom' Shah is seen at a cemetery in Bremen, Ind., Thursday May 26, 2011. Shah … WASHINGTON – For a small cadre of CIA veterans, the death of Osama bin Laden was more than just a national moment of relief and closure. It was also a measure of payback, a settling of a score for a pair of deaths, the details of which have remained a secret for

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RT's Adam vs the Man host Adam Kokesh and several other activists participating in a flash-mob were body slammed, choked and arrested at the publicly-funded Thomas Jefferson Memorial. Their crime? Silently dancing, in celebration of the first amendment's champion and in response to US District Judge John D. Bates' ruling that denounced dancing on the site.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Lockheed Martin Corp, the world's biggest aerospace company and the Pentagon's No. 1 supplier by sales, has been hit by an unspecified cyber incident, the government said on Saturday.The Department of Homeland Security said it and the Defense Department had offered to help gauge the scope of a "cyber incident impacting LMCO," as the maker of fighter jets, ships and other

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KHAR, Pakistan – A suicide bomber targeted pro-government tribal elders in Pakistan's northwestern frontier Saturday, killing eight men, officials said, a day after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton during a visit here implored Pakistanis to take decisive steps to fight terrorism.Eight men died and 10 were wounded when a bomb ripped through a restaurant at a market in the troubled

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