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(AP) Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has received a long-awaited Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission report whose findings show that his father, the country's first president, presided over a government responsible for numerous human rights violations, including political assassinations and illegal allocation ...
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(AP) Soldiers and equipment have been funneling into northeastern Nigeria for a planned offensive against Islamic extremists who have been waging a bloody guerrilla campaign.Associated Press journalists and witnesses have seen army troops, trucks and armored personnel carriers moving into Adamawa, ...
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(AP) Pakistan says it shares "identical views" on foreign policy with China, whose premier is beginning a two-day visit to Islamabad in the latest sign of the tight relationship between the two Asian powers.Premier Li Keqiang arrived in Islamabad on Wednesday ...
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(AP) Authorities in southern China say a mentally ill man stabbed six primary school students and an adult in the latest of several attacks on Chinese schoolchildren.A local government spokeswoman said Wednesday all seven were in stable condition and a suspect ...
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(AP) Japan's nuclear watchdog has endorsed a panel's conclusion that a seismic fault running underneath an atomic plant in western Japan is active, making the plant's restart virtually impossible.The Nuclear Regulation Authority said Wednesday that it agrees with experts that the ...
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(AP) Japan's parliament has approved joining an international child custody treaty amid foreign concerns that Japanese mothers can take children away from foreign fathers without recourse.The upper house of parliament voted Wednesday to join the 1980 Hague Convention on international child ...
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(AP) An 80-year-old Japanese extreme skier who just missed becoming the oldest man to reach the summit of Mount Everest five years ago is back on the mountain to make another attempt at the title.Unfortunately for him, the slightly older man ...
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(AP) Along the northwestern Philippine coast, poor children with claw hammers clamber aboard an abandoned fishing vessel to pry loose and steal rusty nails from its deck. It's become a familiar sight in villages where some fishermen have been forced to ...
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(AP) Thousands of women have taken to the streets in Togo to protest the death of an opposition figure who had been jailed.Tuesday's march comes nearly two weeks ago after the death of Etienne Yakanou.Authorities say he suffered from malaria. His ...
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(AP) Chinese vice-premier Wang Yang has arrived in Zimbabwe at the start of an official trip to view his nation's burgeoning trade and development ties in Africa.Officials at the Harare airport said Tuesday that the third ranking of China's four vice-premiers ...
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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) 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) 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) 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 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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