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(AP) A magistrate drops charges against the boyfriend accused in the brutal gang-rape and killing of a teenager that shocked South Africans.Prosecution spokesman Eric Ntabazalila says the magistrate said there was not enough evidence to try 22-year-old Jonathan Davids. A second ...
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(AP) The United Nations refugee agency said that they are working to contain a cholera outbreak in Niger in a refugee camp for people fleeing the conflict in Mali.Melissa Fleming, the chief spokeswoman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, ...
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(AP) Some members of the rebel alliance who overthrew the president of Central African Republic are protesting outside the luxury hotel where their leader is based.Their demonstration marks a dangerous development, underscoring the divisions that are emerging within the Seleka rebel ...
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(AP) Nelson Mandela, old and frail, lives in seclusion in his Johannesburg home. Beyond the high walls of the house, the fighting over his image and what he stood for has already begun.The sense of possibility that Mandela embodied is fading ...
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(AP) The foreign affairs minister of Burkina Faso says talks will soon resume with a Tuareg rebel group whose influence has been growing in northern Mali.Djibril Bassole made the announcement Monday, days after the National Movement for the Liberation of the ...
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(AP) The man who acted as the spokesman for one of the three al-Qaida-linked groups occupying northern Mali turned himself in over the weekend to Mauritanian authorities on the border, an intelligence official briefed on the matter confirmed on Monday.Sanda Ould ...
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(AP) A government official says the spokesman for one of the al-Qaida-linked groups that occupied and controlled northern Mali for much of last year turned himself in to authorities on the border with Mauritania.An official in the country's intelligence agency, who ...
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(AP) A military commander in eastern Congo says rebels attacked an army position north of Goma, a major provincial capital in the country's troubled east.Lt. Col. Mamadou Ndala said Monday that the attackers were from the M23 movement, a Tutsi-led rebellion ...
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(AP) A British lawmaker widely viewed as a rising star in the Labour Party says the United Kingdom should more aggressively forge ties with West Africa's growing economies.While leading a trade mission to Nigeria and Ghana this week, 34-year-old Chuka Umunna ...
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(AP) Zimbabwe's prime minister says his party will end years of bias and abuse by the police, military and intelligence services and will make sure the services uphold the country's new constitution which demands impartiality in their duties.Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai ...
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(AP) Officials in Ivory Coast say the military has detained a militia leader accused of grave crimes during the country's 2010-11 postelection violence whose forces had been illegally occupying a national park.Amade Oueremi, a native of Burkina Faso, fought alongside forces ...
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(AP) Police shot dead a couple suspected to be terrorists after they threw four grenades, wounding five officers in an overnight stand-off, a police official said Sunday.Following a tip, investigators raided the apartment where the couple was staying in the Githurai ...
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(AP) A Congolese official says the body of a journalist was found on the bank of the Ngezi River near the provincial capital of Bunia in eastern Congo.Bunia Mayor Ferdinand Fimbo said Saturday that the body of Guylain Chanjabo was found ...
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(AP) Even before the first drops flow, Uganda's oil sector is beset by bribery allegations against officials, tax-related cases abroad that cost the government millions in legal fees, and the alleged interference of a president whose firm control of the sector ...
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(AP) Mobile phone service has been cut in areas of northeast Nigeria as the military sends more soldiers to the region to fight Islamic extremists.An Associated Press journalist in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, found services unavailable since early Thursday ...
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(AP) In a medical first, doctors used plastic particles and a 3-D laser printer to create an airway splint to save the life of a baby boy who used to stop breathing nearly every day.It's the latest advance from the booming ...
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(AP) The U.S. teen birth rate fell 25 percent over five years to a record low of 31 births per 1,000 teens ages 15 to 19, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.The teen birth rate ...
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(AP) Doctors in Poland say they have performed an urgent total face transplant on a 33-year-old man whose face was torn off in an accident which also crushed his jaws.Doctors at the Oncology Center in Gliwice said the 27-hour operation was ...
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(AP) The Obama administration says more doctors and hospitals are embracing technology as adoption of computerized medical records reaches a "tipping point" in America.A report Wednesday from Health and Human Services says more than 50 percent of doctors' offices and 4 ...
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(AP) The American Cancer Society _ one of the nation's best known and influential health advocacy groups _ is 100 years old this week.Back in 1913 when it was formed, cancer was a lesser threat for most Americans. The biggest killers ...
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(AP) A deadly tornado hit suburban Oklahoma City on Monday. A quick look at some basic facts:Q. Is global warming to blame?A. You can't blame a single weather event on global warming. In any case, scientists just don't know whether there ...
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(AP) A French drug company and its founder are on trial on charges of misleading the public about a diabetes drug marketed as a weight loss method and suspected in hundreds of deaths.But after years of delays in one of France's ...
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(AP) The decade-old law that transformed the battle against HIV and AIDS in developing countries is at a crossroads. The dream of future generations freed from the lethal epidemic is running up against the realities of the current era of harsh ...
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(AP) Doctors tell people with a heart-zapping device in their chests to give up intense sports like basketball and soccer in favor of golf or bowling. But lots of patients ignore that advice _ and now new research is challenging it.Specialists ...
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(AP) The Supreme Court says a woman can seek lawyers' fees from the government even though her lawsuit over damage she said was caused by a vaccine was ruled untimely.The high court on Monday ruled for Melissa Cloer, who wanted lawyers' ...
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