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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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Predominately white trade union Solidarity is taking South Africa’s government to court, alleging racial discrimination in the police force.
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Ethiopian rebels have launched a wide offensive in the southeastern Somali ethnic Ogaden region and recaptured seven towns from government forces, they claimed Saturday...
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Authorities have announced charges against the owner of a beauty clinic that allegedly performed a botched buttock job on Mexican rock star Alejandra Guzman.
The...
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A former leader of Congo’s Ninja militias has died in Paris, aged 76.
Bernard Kolelas was an MP in Congo at the time of his death and was a popular politician in...
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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...
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Saudi Arabia has evacuated 240 villages because of fighting with Yemeni rebels, the UN children’s fund has reported.
The Unicef statement said more than 50...
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Doctors in Iraq’s war-ravaged enclave of Falluja are dealing with up to 15 times as many chronic deformities in infants and a spike in early life cancers that may...
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U.S. Army Specialist Alexis Hutchinson, a single mother, is being threatened with a military court-martial if she does not agree to deploy to Afghanistan, despite...
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Algeria’s team bus was attacked by stone-throwing fans in Cairo on Thursday ahead of Saturday’s highly-charged World Cup qualifier against Egypt, police officials...
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In a cavernous warehouse amid rolling hills and dairy farms, a group of farmers recently gathered around a buyer in a conversation heralding a sea change in the United...
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A circus lion went on a night-time odyssey in Germany when thieves stole the van carrying him and then abandoned it after crashing into a road sign.
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Sarah Palin’s new book reprises familiar claims from the 2008 presidential campaign that haven’t become any truer over time. Ignoring substantial parts of...
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Girls’ expectations that they can “have it all” may be overly ambitious and they should not feel guilty for taking time out of future careers to raise...
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Florida police say a man arrested for repeatedly calling 911 looking for sex claimed it was the only number he could dial after running out of cell phone minutes. Tampa...
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Colombian stocks and bonds will fall if market-friendly President Alvaro Uribe is barred by the courts from running for a third term next year, a ruling that would...
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The document calls for a “combination of carrot and stick” to encourage Taliban commanders and foot soldiers to lay down their arms and rejoin Afghan...
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People hurled stones and eggs at the Kosovan prime minister’s convoy this week, a spurt of violence just days before the one-time Serbian province holds its first...
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The bulletproof jacket worn on 26/11 by Hemant Karkare, the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) chief gunned down by terrorists, was among a lot
of 110 rejected first as...
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Gunmen shoot a priest and two seminary students in the back. Federal police storm a Mass to capture a suspected drug kingpin. Priests pray with the families of murdered...
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Heavy snow has left 21 people dead in north and central China since Monday, the Ministry of Civil Affairs announced (MCA) Friday.
The ministry did not detail the...
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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.
