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                    [Title] => No poverty, hunger in 15 years? UN sets sweeping new goals
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A season of goal-setting begins this month as the United Nations launches a new 15-year plan to fight grinding world poverty, improve health and education and quell climate change.

[DatePublished] => 2015-09-21 08:07:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1756833 [AuthorName] => Steven R. Hurst [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1483154 [Title] => ‘Close US military bases and save money, lives’ [Summary] =>

Now comes a new  and quite reasonable  proposal on what to do with the 700 US military bases overstaying in various countries across the world: Close them all, and save money and lives.

[DatePublished] => 2015-07-31 10:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133567 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804785 [AuthorName] => Satur C. Ocampo [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1432410 [Title] => Cairo's Mother Theresa serves children of Egypt's slums [Summary] =>

In a slum inhabited by Cairo's legions of informal garbage collectors, children in tattered sandals walk down muddy, trash-strewn alleys to get to Mama Maggie's community center, where their feet are washed, their wounds are dressed and they are encouraged to learn and play.

[DatePublished] => 2015-03-11 07:27:52 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1515894 [AuthorName] => Merrit Kennedy [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1419356 [Title] => Egypt antiquities showman tells the world it's safe to visit [Summary] =>

Egypt's best-known archaeologist is a passionate showman with an explorer's fedora who joined the last, doomed Cabinet of President Hosni Mubarak, then resigned in a swirl of corruption allegations after the 2011 revolution ousted his patron.

[DatePublished] => 2015-02-02 02:08:48 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1231969 [AuthorName] => Christopher Torchia [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1372277 [Title] => Russia wants to keep Ukraine off UN radar [Summary] =>

As world leaders gather at the UN this week, the US and its European allies are consumed by efforts to blunt the savage advance of the Islamic State group, to end the raging Ebola epidemic and to make progress in nuclear negotiations with Iran.

[DatePublished] => 2014-09-23 02:23:42 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1756833 [AuthorName] => Steven R. Hurst [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1372246 [Title] => Russia wants to keep Ukraine off UN radar [Summary] =>

As world leaders gather at the U.N. this week, the U.S. and its European allies are consumed by efforts to blunt the savage advance of the Islamic State group, to end the raging Ebola epidemic and to make progress in nuclear negotiations with Iran.

[DatePublished] => 2014-09-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134176 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1756833 [AuthorName] => Steven R. Hurst [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1359726 [Title] => Holder brings civil rights push to racial crisis [Summary] =>

 Eric Holder talks about the nation's civil rights struggles in a way no previous U.S. attorney general could — by telling his own family story. It's a legacy he'll likely draw on when he travels Wednesday to Ferguson, Missouri, to supervise the federal investigation of the fatal shooting of a black 18-year-old by a white police officer.

[DatePublished] => 2014-08-20 11:51:47 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1237686 [AuthorName] => Connie Cass and Jesse J. Holland [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/nation/20140820/missouri%20rally.jpg ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1358255 [Title] => A treasure in my hand [Summary] =>

After several days of furious rain, peaceful blue skies and glorious sunshine blessed this momentous occasion.

[DatePublished] => 2014-08-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134115 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1520204 [AuthorName] => Michelle Dayrit-Soliven [SectionName] => Allure [SectionUrl] => allure [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/lifestyle/allure/20140817/treasure-in-hand-7.jpg ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1348238 [Title] => Cone’s son a future Fil-Am in PBA? [Summary] =>

San Mig Coffee coach Tim Cone’s son Kevin is 6-3 and at only 18, could grow a few more inches. Since Cone’s wife Cristina Viaplana is Filipina, Kevin is considered a Fil-Am and eligible to play in the PBA as a local. But that’s way into the future. At the moment, Kevin is an incoming freshman at Santa Clara University, a private Jesuit school in Santa Clara, California. He was a varsity player at Brent during his high school years.

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San Mig Coffee coach Tim Cone wouldn’t be as successful if not for his competitive nature, spirituality, ability to communicate as a teacher, searching mind and genuine desire to build championship basketball teams by molding disciplined players with a positive attitude.

[DatePublished] => 2014-07-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804869 [AuthorName] => Joaquin M. Henson [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/sports/20140715/tim-cone-family-SPO4.jpg ) ) )
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