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A Saudi Arabian oil tanker with 25-member crew was captured by Somali pirates off the coast of the Kenya, officials in the US military and British Foreign Office confirmed Monday.
The tanker Sirius Star was 450 nautical miles south-east of the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa when it was taken over by pirates, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet told the... |
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Germany said Monday it was checking reports that the tourists recently taken hostage in Egypt had been freed, but could not confirm this.
A spokesman for the German Foreign Ministry, Jens Ploetner, advised reporters to treat the news reports with caution.
"When there is something to tell, we'll be the first to tell you,"...
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German authorities attempting to end the kidnapping crisis in which 19 people were snatched in the Egyptian desert a week ago have said that they have no new information regarding their whereabouts or condition, it emerged on Friday.
The group, which consists of 11 tourists - five Germans, five Italians and one Romanian - plus eight...
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Pirates have seized a Ukrainian cargo ship carrying military tanks off the coast of Somalia, a maritime official said Friday.
"The ship was grabbed yesterday evening as it sailed to (the Kenyan port of) Mombasa," Andrew Mwangura of the East African Seafarers' Assistance Programme told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
"It...
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As the dust began to settle Friday on the biggest shake-up in South African politics since the end of apartheid politicians, analysts and ordinary citizens were mostly in agreement on two things.
The first was that there was not, and never had been a crisis. The second was that the ruling ANC really had the country's interest at...
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Hundreds of businesses around Zimbabwe were readying Friday to open their doors to sell goods in foreign currency as the country's own currency accelerated in its crash towards oblivion.
The central bank Thursday granted special licences to 570 retail and wholesale businesses, oil companies and service stations to charge in hard...
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Hassan is a 36-year-old Egyptian waiter who earns 500 Egyptian pounds (93 US dollars) a month. His fiancée Heba is a university student, who works as a salesgirl on the side. She uses half the 400 pounds she earns to save for their wedding.
Hassan and Heba's tale - of saving long and hard with meagre wages to scrape together enough to...
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Kgalema Motlanthe, who was elected South Africa's third post-democracy president Thursday, is a self-effacing, former anti-apartheid activist with a reputation for making peace within the ruling African National Congress (ANC).
Motlanthe, 58, replaces Thabo Mbeki, who stepped down four days before the end of his second five-year term...
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Nineteen people kidnapped by an unknown group of masked men on September 19 in the Egyptian Western Desert have now been transferred to Libya, the Arab satellite broadcaster al-Arabiya reported on Thursday.
A spokesman for the Sudanese Foreign Ministry told the channel that the group, which includes five Germans, five Italians and one...
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Europe's governing football body UEFA is facing a dilemma.
Nobody is questioning that the Euro 2012 preparations in the Ukraine and Poland are in trouble, but the million dollar question is: What to do about it.
For the first time in the history of the organization, the right to host the showpiece of European football could be...
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African National Congress (ANC) deputy leader Kgalema Motlanthe was sworn in as South Africa's caretaker president Thursday after being elected in a landslide vote in the National Assembly in Cape Town.
Motlanthe easily defeated Joe Seremane, candidate of the official opposition Democratic Alliance, 269 votes to 50 votes out of 360...
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Today is Thursday, June 5
the 157th day of 2008 with 209 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and...
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 General Petraeus Set for Central Command
It appears that U. S. President George W. Bush’s favorite
general has been handed the task of winning the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
as well as confronting the...
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 A culinary journey through Crete
Almost as soon as you set foot on the southern Mediterranean island of Crete the poignant smell of oregano, wild flowers and wild teas tickles your senses while the...
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