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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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Six civilians died and four were wounded when Ethiopian troops opened fired on a minibus just south of the Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses said Thursday.
A witness told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa that the Ethiopians "opened fire indiscriminately" shortly after a gun battle between Islamic insurgents and Ethiopian...
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Three people died and 19 were wounded on Wednesday in a bus and truck crash on the Red Sea coastal high road of Sharm al-Sheikh, south of the Sinai peninsula, the chief of security reported.
The casualties were two 50-year-old men and a 28-year-old man, General Haroun Hassan told the Middle East News Agency (MENA).
The accident...
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Nigeria was Wednesday preparing to officially hand over the disputed Bakassi peninsula to Cameroon on Thursday, ending a decades-long dispute marked by legal battles and sporadic violence.
While the United Nations has hailed the peaceful solution, Nigerian militant groups in Bakassi have threatened to step up attacks on Cameroonian...
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After three days of talks on a power- sharing government between Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai that ended in deadlock, mediating South African President Thabo Mbeki left Zimbabwe Wednesday.
As Mbeki left for Angola to report back on the talks to Angolan President Eduardo dos Santos,...
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Algeria has tightened its control on foreign investment, with a range of measures announced in recent weeks, reports said Tuesday.
Among them, all future joint ventures involving foreign investors will require local firms to hold a majority stake.
Investors will no longer be permitted purchase sites, but instead can only acquire...
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Technicians from South Africa's state-owned Telkom utility were working Tuesday to restore communications at an international media building after thieves allegedly made off with a piece of copper cable severing phone links to the BBC, Sky News and other media houses.
On Friday, the phones fell silent at the building in Johannesburg,...
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Scientists have detected for the first time in Nigeria a new strain of the virus that causes avian influenza - also known as bird-flu - a United Nations agency announced Tuesday.
The find comes in the wake of Nigeria recently reporting two new Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza outbreaks in the states of Katsina and Kano, the...
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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai were due to resume talks Tuesday on a powersharing deal after the difficult negotiations were adjourned for a second time Monday without any sign of agreement.
The talks were due to resume after Defence Forces' Day celebrations in Harare that Mugabe was...
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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe talked up a power-sharing deal with opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai at a rally on Monday, hours after marathon negotiations between the two on a government of national unity were adjourned in Harare.
"Today's commemoration occurs against the backdrop of a new dispensation," he told...
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Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai were due to resume critical talks on a powersharing government on Monday after failing to sign off on a deal at marathon negotiations in Harare Sunday.
Around 14 hours of talks between the two leaders under the mediation of South African President Thabo Mbeki...
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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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