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A Guinean court has charged a second son of the late President Lansana Conte with drug trafficking.
Moussa Conte and his three alleged associates deny importing machines for the manufacture of narcotics, saying they were for processing...
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Argentina - Valuing truth over the right to privacy, Argentina’s Congress has authorized the forced extraction of DNA from people who may have been born to...
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A 5-year-old North Carolina girl was raped and killed the same day she was taken from her home, according to an arrest warrant released Friday. Shaniya Davis was...
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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Saturday vowed to continue Russia’s anti-crisis program as the economy moves out of one of the deepest recessions in post-Soviet...
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President Hosni Mubarak vowed on Saturday that Egypt will be firm in dealing with attacks on its nationals, amid hot tempers and a diplomatic spat with Algeria over a...
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Alessandra Mussolini, a right-wing MP, said she was outraged and upset when she heard reports that the remains of her grandfather were being sold online.
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Friday that the United States could start holding Afghanistan’s government accountable for corruption by withholding money for...
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representatives of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay met in Caracas to sign the protocol for the entrance of Venezuela into the Southern Common Market (Mercosur)....
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“There should be no differences between black Jews and white Jews,” said Ayeli, 29, who was among 15,000 people who this week celebrated the...
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Colombian President Alvaro Uribe on Friday declared that his country will not retaliate with war threats against Venezuela, his only aim being to defeat terrorism in...
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More than 50,000 people have fled clashes between two ethnic groups in north-western Democratic Republic of Congo in recent weeks, the UN says.
Many of those fleeing...
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Tony Blair warned Gordon Brown a week ago that his campaign to become the first president of the European Council was doomed after a decisive intervention by the German...
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In almost every way, David Headley was the perfect neighbour. When the 49-year-old American citizen began renting an apartment in Mumbai last year he charmed his...
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Hangu police on Friday morning acted efficiently to dispose a bomb placed outside a high school and college building in the Muslim Abad neighborhood of the town. The...
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A gas explosion tore through a state-run coal mine in northern China on Saturday, killing 42 people and leaving 66 others trapped underground as rescuers worked hastily...
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A transsexual Brazilian prostitute known as ‘Brenda,’ who was linked to a sex scandal involving former Italian politician Piero Marrazzo, has been found...
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A group of hackers recently broke into the email system at the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU), one of the leading climate research...
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Federal officials say they arrested a man who strapped 15 live lizards to his chest to get through customs at Los Angeles International Airport.
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Conspicuous by its absence was India. Was India not on his radar? Or was it such a close ally that he skipped naming it at a public function? It left New Delhi...
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For millions of children in India, childhood is an elusive dream, as a UN report has revealed that 5,000 children below five die every day.
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THE five leaders of the East African Community (EAC) have signed a landmark agreement for a common market which allows free movement of people, goods, labour and...
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Conquering armies of centuries past avoided this remote, mountainous area along the present-day border with China, a place once described by a British colonial official...
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Previewing the new US Burma policy with the 17-member UN Group of Friends on Burma in New York, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the US will pursue a policy of...
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Virginia’s senior Senator Jim Webb, a fmr. Secretary of the Navy, has secured the release of an American, John Yettaw, held in Myanmar by the ruling junta.
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There is an uproar in the world over indicting Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. However, nine Nobel peace prize recipients are bearing the torch...
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Isn’t it ridiculous that the world lauds and celebrates the awarding of the Nobel Pace Prizes, but at what cost and what commitment?
Aung San Suu Kyi Has spent the...
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A new constitution proposed by Burma’s military rulers has been overwhelmingly approved in a referendum, according to the country’s state-run media.
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According to The Sun, the death toll in cyclone-ravaged Burma could hit 500,000 if the ruling military junta still does not allow foreign aid into the country....
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As a neighbour to cyclone-ravaged Myanmar, India can help Yangon in a much better way than the United States, American First Lady Mrs Laura Bush has said.
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Tropical cyclone Nargis has brought incalculable disaster in Burma killing around 15,000, and counting. The military junta has issued a rare appeal for international...
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We Burmese celebrated January 4 as the 60th anniversary of country’s independence from United Kingdom. However, the question is haunting our minds that are we really...
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India has urged Myanmar’s military junta to promote national reconciliation immediately and established talks with the detained opposition leader Aung San Suu...
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On the current situation in Myanmar, the government of India has made it clear to UN special envoy Ibrahim Gambari that India, despite supporting pro-democratic...
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According to a report published in the ‘Guardian’ 34 Burmese people, who are in jails in India being accused of arms smuggling, are actually the...
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# The non-violent protests by Buddhist monks have threatened the very foundation of the twenty year military junta rule in Burma.
# The army has ruled Burma for about...
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