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                    [Title] => Obama 'confident' US-Philippine defense pact will proceed
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President Barack Obama says he's confident the U.S. will be able to execute a defense cooperation agreement with the Philippines despite a hold-up in implementation.

[DatePublished] => 2015-11-17 19:22:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/headlines/20151118/obama-philippines.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1317452 [Title] => WATCH: Obama ends Asia tour with pitch for alliance [Summary] =>

President Barack Obama is headed home after a four-nation Asia tour that aimed to cement alliances in a key part of the world but still faced questions about America's staying power and commitment to defending its friends.

[DatePublished] => 2014-04-29 15:03:38 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => News Videos [SectionUrl] => news-videos [URL] => http://i1280.photobucket.com/albums/a497/ph1lstarcom/obamathumb_zpsaaf87d77.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 816693 [Title] => Merkel, opposition negotiating EU growth policy [Summary] =>

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is holding talks with the country's opposition leaders to forge a compromise on proposals for a European growth initiative.

[DatePublished] => 2012-06-13 18:52:54 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 804512 [Title] => Mandaue, Borbon agree to forge ties [Summary] =>

Mandaue City Mayor Jonas Cortes and Borbon town Mayor Bernardo Sepulveda yesterday signed at the session hall a memorandum of understanding for a sisterhood pact.

[DatePublished] => 2012-05-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1321282 [AuthorName] => Flor Z. Perolina [SectionName] => Freeman Metro Cebu [SectionUrl] => metro-cebu [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 782078 [Title] => US offers Philippines help to join trade pact [Summary] =>

The United States says it is ready to help the Philippines meet membership requirements for a Pacific free trade pact that the US and eight other countries are negotiating.

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A pact that will reduce tariffs on hundreds of products traded between Taiwan and China took effect Sunday, a significant step for the Taiwanese president's efforts to forge closer trade ties with Beijing.

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China and Taiwan have signed a trade pact that boosts economic ties and further eases political tensions six decades after the rivals split amid civil war.

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Speaker Prospero Nograles and Mayor Rodrigo Duterte led more than 64 local bets in last Thursday’s signing of a peace covenant initiated by the Commission on Elections, the police and military.

[DatePublished] => 2010-04-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 418718 [Title] => GLOBAL NEWS: Iraqi parliament delays vote on US pact [Summary] => BAGHDAD (AP) – Intense dealmaking among Iraq's political factions yesterday delayed by one day a parliamentary vote on a security pact that would allow American forces to stay in the country through 2011 under tight Iraqi supervision. [DatePublished] => 2008-11-27 03:29:02 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 416437 [Title] => GLOBAL NEWS: In televised speech, Iraqi PM defends pact with US [Summary] => BAGHDAD (AP) – Iraq's prime minister went on national television yesterday to defend a security pact with the United States that keeps US forces in Iraq through 2011 and assure neighbors that Iraqi territory would not be used to attack them. [DatePublished] => 2008-11-19 01:38:15 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) ) )
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