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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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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 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...
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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.
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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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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.
