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As Somalis struggle to survive the chaos that has overtaken their country, a network of companies that distribute money from the nation’s large diaspora has quietly expanded, providing a crucial safety net.
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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.
The initial...
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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.
The U.S. Fish and...
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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.
It may be a shocking...
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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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Also human life is short, kaleidoscope of history-in-making is so speedy changing that last seventy years accomplished events lasting centuries previously: changing...
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Arlington Cemetery is the closest thing to holy ground in America. A national monument it is the nation’s most important military burial ground.
A new book - On...
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According to the definition of Wikipedia, “a civil war is a war between factions of citizens of one country (such as in the English Civil War), or else a dispute...
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Air raids may no longer target the highlands of central Sudan, but heads still turn sharply to scan the skies at the sound of an aeroplane engine overhead.
The Nuba...
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Upon instructions issued by H.M. King Mohammed VI, Morocco decided to send emergency humanitarian aid to Yemen, to help citizens who have been displaced as a result of...
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It is a cynical but time-honoured practice in Middle Eastern politics: the statesmen who decry the political and humanitarian crisis of the approximately 3.9 million...
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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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Let us ignore the fact that the UN has postponed the vote on Goldstone’s report concerning the last Israeli war on Gaza Strip. What we should deal with now is the...
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“The backbone warplanes of the major military powers in the world are third generation. The qualities of some of our warplanes are at a level that is advanced in...
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WHEN Arsen Butayev was seized on a street in broad daylight last month and held captive with four other men, including his younger brother, he must have known a...
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Rape as a weapon of war against men has begun to rise in Congo. The shocking plight of the women suffering what is likely the worst sexual violence in the world has...
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Personally, I feel always a sort of affection in iconic places history associated with. And a living walking history impresses me surely as info of a hundred year old...
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KABUL – NATO launched an airstrike on two fuel tankers hijacked by Taliban militants in northern Afghanistan, sparking a huge blast that killed up to 90 people,...
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According to Russian media, an al-Qaeda team leader known as Mohamed of Algeria, was killed in village Mutsalul, Khasaviyur region, Dagestan, RF on Sunday 10 Aug-09...
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You don’t know how long I’ve been trying to get in touch with you. I know I kind of wander in and out of Church, and I’ll be the first to admit...
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New NATO S-G Anders Fogh Rasmussen of Denmark is to visit Kosovo today, 13th August 2009 with his first official visit as NATO top official.
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Although many American would be offended at the statement, but the United States today commands an empire. Tens of thousands of U.S. troops are stationed in far off...
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The Obama administration is not ruling out the possibility of Russian membership in NATO.
Assistant Secretary of State Philip Gordon told U.S. lawmakers Tuesday that...
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Is any UN legislation in place as Russia is going to dig up Helium on the Moon in 2015 and Japan has found Uranium recently?
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A Navy carry team places the transfer case containing the remains of US Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Tyler J. Trahan of Freetown, Mass. next to the transfer case containing the remains of Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Mark A. Wojciechowski, of Cincinnati, Ohio.
