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At least 47 people have been killed in fighting between rival groups in southern Sudan in the latest round of bloody clashes in the troubled region.
This attack was blamed on cattle raiding, but it is the latest in a string of violent clashes in the...
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Fourteen people, including a journalist, were yesterday committed to the High Court for trial on treason charges.
The decision to commit Mr Patrick Otim, 34, a...
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Those wishing to marry partners of the same sex still have to seek countries where such marriages are allowed, before they can tie the knot.
Same sex marriages will...
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The tempo of events in Zimbabwe continue to gather pace – and all of it has a more serious nature than happenings of late.
Which begs the question: What is Robert...
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Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) has arrived in Brazil this Wednesday night. He already had dinner with Brazilian president Luiz...
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Faced with an escalating insurgency, Pakistan increasingly views U.S. efforts to stabilize neighboring Afghanistan as critical to its own security — but is worried...
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A battle over Cuba policy is escalating in Congress, with proponents saying they have their best chance in years of repealing the ban on U.S. tourist travel to the...
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A five-year-old girl suffering from swine flu died after doctors took two weeks to diagnose her illness, it was claimed last night.
Nida Qureshi was seen by three GPs...
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Perhaps it’s a case of life imitating bad art. In this year’s mirthless Hollywood comedy Couples Retreat: Return to Eden, eight Americans attempt to...
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At least five people have died in a shooting incident in the Northern Mariana Islands in the Pacific.
The gunman killed four local people in the main island of Saipan,...
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Venezuela has blown up two pedestrian bridges on its border with Colombia in the latest sign of deteriorating relations between the Andean neighbours.
Soldiers...
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Sierra Leone has launched an initiative to enlist boys as young as 10 as crime-fighting volunteers in Freetown.
Police chief Chris Charley said the capital, which is...
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A suicide bomber riding a motorcycle killed 13 people, including a police officer, and wounded 30 others Friday in a busy city square in western Afghanistan.
Several...
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The White House is on a collision course with Catholic bishops in an intractable dispute over abortion that could blow up the fragile political coalition behind...
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President Obama said yesterday he is still several weeks away from adopting a new strategy for the war in Afghanistan.
What’s taking so long? Obama wants his...
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The terrorist walked up the quiet alleyway, police say, and went down nine steps and found himself hidden from view in the stone vestibule outside the famous Holocaust...
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Two Chicago men accused of developing what federal prosecutors call a blueprint for a terrorist assault on a Danish newspaper also are being investigated for possible...
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Afghanistan’s capital Kabul remained sealed for the commoners as the country’s president was to be sworn in for a second five year’s term.
Kabul was...
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Here’s what the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has to say about Mussolini and Italian fascism:...
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This is how low and stupid Arab regimes are:
Earlier this week, the Algerian national soccer [football] team traveled to Cairo for the World Cup qualifying match....
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Gunmen wearing Iraqi army uniforms abducted and killed at least 13 people in a village west of Baghdad, in what some described as revenge against Sunnis who helped...
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STATUTORY WARNING:
I INTEND MAKING POLITICALLY INCORRRECT STATEMENTS. THIS MAY NOT BE TOLERABLE TO SOME BUT IT IS MY INTENTION TO LET READERS...
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It’s been an almost endless summer in Lebanon, with beach weather and relative political harmony continuing well into November. The only thing marring what could...
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The message Maoists have given by ambushing jawans in the market place just outside their camp shows that they are not going to give up the violence.
I think we have...
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Reporting from Culiacan, Mexico - In the story making the rounds here in Mexico’s drug capital, the setting is a beauty parlor. A woman with wealth obtained...
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We know the old story; A forest used to be ruled by a lion one day another tiger also came to that forest. Soon a turf war broke out forcing the weaker one to leave the...
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A number of events has projected Brazil into the headlines of international news, besides the traditional stories about violence, natural catastrophes or environmental...
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Violence in Iraq has been reduced, as Western generals and politicians are keen to point out, but it has not gone away. If anything, it has become more deeply...
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Nearly half of all Iraqis who died in October perished in a single coordinated attack against government offices in Baghdad, a tally by The Associated Press showed...
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A suicide bomber killed 30 people outside a bank near Pakistan’s capital Monday, as the U.N. said spreading violence had forced it to pull out some expatriate...
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Suicide bombers driving two large vehicle bombs again penetrated the heart of Baghdad today, killing 147 people and wounding more than 700, less than three months...
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been putting women’s issues at the center of her work: speaking out forcefully against recent rapes in Guinea, leading a...
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President Obama’s Sudan strategy, announced this week, is consistent with his approach to foreign policy elsewhere: Engage, don’t isolate. Hold out carrots,...
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The Obama administration’s new policy toward Sudan, formally announced Monday, turns the spotlight back on where the troubled nation’s problems first began:...
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I have been writing about Zimbabwe/Mugabe for almost six years now – and I would hate to know how many hours I have spent in research, or how many words I have...
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I had an interesting chat on Skype with a good friend who is also very interested in the situation in Zimbabwe.
Friend: Is Mugabe going to do a go-it-alone?
Me: Looks...
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Somalia’s Shebab Islamist group has growing links with Al-Qaeda and poses a potential threat to foreign interests by radicalising Western youths, a leading expert...
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A month ago, he was snatched on the way to his grandmother’s house. Four days later, after his middle-class family received calls asking for $70 or else — calls the...
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Lately I’ve been doing alot of thinking, pondering actually. I know where I come from, I know our history. I know about the Aztecs, Hernan Cortez, and the Spanish...
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A Mexican marine patrols near the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Tijuana, Mexico, Wednesday, March 18, 2009. The administration of President Barack Obama is preparing to send federal agents to the US-Mexico border as reinforcements in the fight against...
