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“The Holy Father said “I have special admiration for the Filipinos, ‘” Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma said in a report by the Catholic Bishops” Conference of the Philippines News (CBCP News).

The emotions stemmed partly from the elderly reuniting after decades spent apart, and partly from the knowledge that this would nearly certainly be their only chance. Additional reporting came from Youmi Kim in Seoul.

Emergency services said 21 people have been rescued and taken to hospital. The area where the boat sank was a popular site to view sea lions.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met with Oman’s top diplomat, Yussef bin Alawi, in Damascus on Monday, in a rare visit for a Gulf official since Syria’s conflict broke out, state media reported.

The government will notify the one-rank-one-pension scheme after the Bihar assembly elections are completed, defence minister Manohar Parrikar said Monday citing the Model Code of Conduct for the delay.

The Afghanistan national cricket team defeated Zimbabwe in the first match of Twenty20 cricket match following their historic win in One Day worldwide (ODI) series.

Wilma “is the last major hurricane to strike the U.S.-an unprecedented stretch that could unfortunately lead to “hurricane amnesia” for the destruction such a hurricane can cause”, NOAA noted. Losses in Mexico are likely to be less than $2 billion, he said.

Lavrov made the remark following a Friday meeting between Russian Federation, the United States, Turkey and Saudi Arabia over the Syrian conflict in the Austrian capital Vienna.

“Exactly because of that we’ve got the very hard situation in Ukraine, and we still have a hard situation on our borders, in [the Russian region] Kaliningrad where Russia is exercising and trying to frighten us”.

“On the basis of South Korea-U.S. cooperation, (we) will constantly elicit China’s constructive role”, said the ministry.

As for the summit meeting, Hua said China hopes the first meeting in three years will determine the direction of China-Japan-ROK cooperation.

The quake was felt in most of the northern parts of Pakistan including such major cities as Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Sargoda and Kohat, officials said.

Ambassadors Igor Popov, James Warlick, Pierre Andrieu and Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk, Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office.

The district head along with other dignitaries including a former Minister, Alhaji Hassan Adamu narrowly escaped the blast as they left the mosque shortly after the inauguration to observe their prayers at their usual jummat mosque in Jimeta area of Yola.

Scioli, the governor of the Buenos Aires province and a former vice president, was the chosen successor to Fernandez, who nears the end of her second term with approval ratings around 50 percent.