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Bicol region and Eastern Visayas will experience cloudy skies with moderate to heavy rainshowers and thunderstorms which may trigger flash floods and landslides, according to the 5:00 a.m. weather bulletin issued on Sunday. The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said moderate and strong northeasterlies are affecting the eastern section of Central and Southern Luzon. CARAGA region will be cloudy with light to moderate rainshowers and thunderstorms while Cagayan Valley and the provinces of Aurora and Quezon will have cloudy skies with light rains. Metro Manila and the rest of the country will be partly cloudy with isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms. PAGASA also said that moderate to strong winds blowing from the northeast will prevail over the Bicol region and from the east to northeast over the eastern Sections of Visayas and Mindanao.

U.S. veteran Senator John McCain on Saturday called for a congressional hearing into the transportation authority's decision to allow small knives on planes, which has been banned following the September 11 attacks. "We need a congressional hearing on the whole issue of what is a danger to the entire flight," McCain said in an interview with CNN's Piers Morgan. The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced Tuesday that travelers will be allowed to bring small knives and some other once-prohibited sporting equipment in their carry-on baggage. The change will take effect on April 25, which marks the first loosening of restrictions for carry-on baggage since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Items allowed include knives that do not lock and have blades that are 6 cm or less in length and are less than 1.27 cm in width, novelty- size and toy bats, billiard cues, ski poles, hockey sticks, lacrosse sticks and two golf clubs. "They are o...

Two policemen were injured in gunfights with militants on Sunday as more than a week-long of deadly clashes between police and the Filipino intruders in Malaysia's Sabah state takes its toll on civilians. Authorities said the policemen were shot by gunmen in overnight skirmishes as militants showed no signs of backing down. The militants had come in a group of more than 180 who arrived in the east coastal town of Lahad Datu in Sabah from southern Philippines on February 9 to claim territorial rights to the land. They were followers of Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram III who insisted Sabah belongs to his sultanate. Police on Sunday raised the number of people they arrested under suspicion of sympathizing with the militant to 85 from 79 Saturday night. Authorities said they are concentrating efforts to hunt down the militants holed up in Kampung Tanjung Batu and Kampung Tanduo by launching airstrikes and sifting them out house-to-house. Police said some of the militants were foun...

The National League for Democracy reelected Aung San Suu Kyi as leader of Myanmar's main opposition party on Sunday before closing a two-day national congress, the first in its 25-year history. The NLD also expanded the size of its decision-making body, the Central Executive Committee, from seven to 15 members and elected 120 members of the party's Central Committee. Under a new mandate, Suu Kyi, 67, will take the reins in steering the fractious NLD toward scheduled parliamentary elections in 2015.

US President Barack Obama was in his elements over a whopping USD 85 billion forced spending cuts his administration was facing, saying, "My joke writers have been placed on furlough." "Before I begin, I know some of you have noticed that I'm dressed a little differently from the other gentlemen.

Egyptian police in various governorates nationwide went on strike over the past few days, complaining recurrent bloody confrontations with anti-government protesters, rioters and sometimes outlaws when they are only allowed to use teargas bombs and water cannons in dealing with troublemakers. Over 50 police stations across the country closed their gates and central security forces assigned with facing rioters went on strike in different governorates, demanding to sack the interior minister and to be equipped with necessary deterrent weapons to be able to deal with outlaws, thugs and rioters, protect the citizens and properties and maintain the country's security. Some security experts believe that the protesting policemen have the right to go on strike as they cannot control the criminal acts committed during anti-government protests as some hired armed thugs and outlaws hidden among protesters to incite violence while the policemen are empty-handed against them. "The po...

The Malaysian police shot dead a teenage boy and injured a man on Sunday, bringing the death toll to 62 as the Malaysian security forces continue to launch assaults to end the Filipino militant incursions in Malaysia's Sabah state. Police chief Ismail Omar said the teenager, aged between 12 and 15, was killed when police sensed movements behind a bush and fired shots at it as they were frisking five people in Sungai Bilis village. The identity of the teenager has yet to be disclosed. A man in his 30's were also injured in the shooting. Two policemen were shot and injured by gunmen in overnight skirmishes as the Malaysian authorities said the militants showed no signs of backing down. The Filipino armed intruders had come in a group of more than 180 who arrived in the east coastal town of Lahad Datu in Sabah from southern Philippines on February 9 to claim territorial rights to the land. They were followers of a self-proclaimed Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram III who insiste...