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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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Dozens of people have died in northern Cameroon after a fuel tanker exploded, reports said Friday.
The BBC reported that around 30 villagers were trying to collect petrol from the overturned tanker when a bus that was trying to edge past set fire to the spilled fuel with its exhaust.
The entire area was then engulfed in...
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Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit has offered his country's assistance in rebuilding Lebanon's army, in a bid to improve security amid ongoing sectarian tensions.
North Lebanon has witnessed in the past two months repeated clashes between Sunni followers of the western-backed government and others loyal to the opposition, led...
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At least 20 people died and 13 were injured when a bus plunged into the swollen waters of a river in northern Uganda, police officials said Wednesday.
The bus, which was carrying 35 passengers, swerved off a bridge over the River Aswa, north of the region's main town of Gulu, on Tuesday night.
"The bus was loaded with people...
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A delegation from the Brunei Finance Ministry met with Cambodian Finance Minister Keat Chhon to discuss importing Cambodian rice and seed, local media reported Wednesday.
The delegation, headed by Brunei Finance Ministry Permanent Secretary Dato Paduka Haj Ali Apong, had not reached any firm agreements on the amount of rice and seed...
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Piracy off the coast of Somalia reached new heights last week when four ships - German, Japanese, Iranian and Malaysian - were seized within 48 hours.
Yet this may not represent the peak of pirate activity as gunmen with possible links to Islamic insurgents cram into the Gulf of Aden to get their share of the hefty ransoms shipping...
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A Cambodian father murdered two of his infant daughters and badly beat his pregnant wife before killing himself after he learned she was having a fifth girl, police said Monday.
Ou Em, the police chief of Siem Reap province, 300 kilometres north of the capital, said Youen Nil, a 37-year-old father of four daughters, became distraught...
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The body of late Zambian president Levy Mwanawasa arrived back home from Paris Saturday in a gold coffin draped in a Zambian flag to a sombre ceremony at Lusaka International Airport.
The plane touched down in overcast conditions at 9 am (0800 GMT) to a 21-gun salute and a fly-past by Zambia Air Force jets.
The mood of sorrow that...
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The Zambian government announced Friday that the country's late president Levy Mwanawasa would be buried on September 3 after his body had been taken around the country for public viewing.
The date had been chosen to coincide with Mwanawasa's birthday, secretary to the cabinet Dr Joshua Kanganja said.
Mwanawasa would have turned 60...
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Joseph Kony, the leader of Uganda's notorious rebel Lord's Resistance Army, will only sign a final peace deal on Sunday if an international warrant for his arrest is dropped, the group's spokesman said Friday.
"It is possible he (Kony) will sign, but he wants the International Criminal Court (ICC) to drop its arrest warrant...
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Somali pirates have hijacked a Japanese tanker and an Iranian cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden just two days after a Malaysian ship was seized, the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) said Thursday.
The BBC quoted IMB head Noel Choong as telling reporters in Kuala Lumpar that the ships were seized on Thursday morning.
There are...
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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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