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(AP) Egyptian prosecutors say they are presenting new evidence in the retrial of former President Hosni Mubarak.Mubarak, all in white and wearing sunglasses, attended the hearing in the courtroom defendants' cage alongside his two sons and former interior minister, who was ...
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(AP) An Afghan legislator says conservative lawmakers have blocked a law that aims to protect women's freedoms, saying parts of it violate Islamic principles.The failure highlights how tenuous women's rights remain a dozen years after the ouster of the hard-line Taliban ...
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(AP) Australia's treasurer says his economic blueprint for the fiscal year ahead will support jobs and growth without European-style austerity measures aimed at reining in the national deficit.Treasurer Wayne Swan will unveil the budget in Parliament on Tuesday that is likely ...
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(AP) South Korea says North Korea has fired three short-range guided missiles into its eastern waters. Pyongyang routinely test-launches such missiles.Defense Ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok says the North fired two missiles Saturday morning and another in the afternoon. He says the ...
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(AP) Prince Johnson, a former warlord best known for videotaping himself as he ordered the torture of Liberia's ex-president, announced that he is quitting the political party he founded.For years since the end of Liberia's civil war, Johnson has tried to ...
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(AP) Zimbabwe's prime minister says he is poised to win the presidency in upcoming elections and return the nation to the world community after years of isolation.Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said Friday his party championed a new constitution accepted in a ...
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(AP) South African police say 23 youths have died over a period of nine days at initiation ceremonies that include circumcisions and survival tests.Spokesman Lt. Col. Leonard Hlathi says police have opened 22 murder cases in the deaths in the northeastern ...
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(AP) The medical aid group Doctors Without Borders says one of its medical facilities located in a rural but violent region of South Sudan has been ransacked and destroyed.The group said Friday the attack leaves 100,000 people without medical care in ...
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(AP) The government of Congo says more than 20 people have died in a collapse at a bush mine in the region of Masisi in North Kivu province. That's in the far eastern part of the country.The statement sent to reporters ...
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(AP) Relatives say Mohamed Ould Ali, an employee of the International Committee of the Red Cross, has been arrested in Mali's capital. He had been attempting to sue the Malian military for his father's recent disappearance.Ali belongs to the country's minority ...
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(AP) Hundreds of sweating Sufis chant and sway as the lead sheik moves into the middle of a circle of worshippers and bursts into a chant louder than anyone else'sSufism, a mystical branch of Islam, is having a major comeback since ...
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(AP) The head of the South African army says soldiers who will join a United Nations military mission in Congo will be adequately prepared even though his overall force is overstretched and underfunded.Lt. Gen. V.R. Masondo also told media at a ...
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(AP) A human rights group says authorities in Equatorial Guinea have arrested nine activists before this month's legislative elections.Amnesty International said Wednesday the arrests were "further evidence of the authorities' determination to clamp down on free speech" before the May 26 ...
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(AP) Dozens of paintings, a silver tea set and other items belonging to Nelson Mandela's ex-wife Winnie will be auctioned to pay off debts she owes to a South African school.A law firm representing the Abbotts School in Johannesburg says the ...
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(AP) Police in Rwanda say a four-story building that was under construction collapsed, killing at least three workers and injuring 21 more people.Rwandan police said in a statement late Tuesday that the building in the eastern district of Nyagatare collapsed Tuesday ...
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