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Egypt on Monday downplayed media reports that it was brokering mediation talks between the Palestinian Hamas movement and Israel, saying it could do little without commitment from the parties themselves.
"The ability to destroy is greater than the ability to construct, when one party wants positive reconciliation, its ability is much weaker compared to the... |
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Twelve tourists were killed and 34 injured as their bus collided with a truck in the Egyptian peninsula of south Sinai on Monday.
The accident took place near the city of Ras-Sudr, some 190 kilometres from Cairo, along the Sharm el-Sheikh-Cairo road.
Seven of the tourists killed were foreigners.
The injured were hospitalized in...
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A South African court Friday smoothed the path to president for ruling African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma after finding the corruption charges that have been hanging over him invalid.
Judge Chris Nicholson in the Pietermaritzburg High Court agreed with Zuma that prosecutors did not follow proper procedure last december in...
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Diplomats have expressed serious concern over recent fighting in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo and called on warring forces to respect a January ceasefire.
Rebels aligned with rogue general Laurent Nkunda and government soldiers have been involved in firefights in the eastern North Kivu province.
The United Nations'...
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The number of people confirmed dead as a result of Saturday's rockslide in Cairo reached 75 and is feared likely to climb, six days after hundreds of tons of limestone came crashing down upon the Doweiqa neighbourhood, Egyptian security sources said.
On Saturday, eight rocks, weighing between 100 and 500 tons, separated from the cliff...
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South African President Thabo Mbeki was the man of the hour in Africa Friday after clinching a hard-won power-sharing deal between Zimbabwe's rivals of nearly a decade - President Robert Mugabe and Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai.
Welcoming Thursday's agreement on the formation of a government of national...
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South Africa's ruling African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma was due to hear Friday whether his attempt to have the corruption charges that threaten to mar his path to the presidency quashed has been successful.
Pietermaritzburg High Court is due to rule on an application by Zuma to have his case for alleged corruption, fraud and...
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Britain's role in tackling militants in the restive oil-rich Niger Delta will be limited to training Nigerian forces, Britain's minister for Africa Mark Malloch-Brown said during a visit to Nigeria.
"We want to make sure that the security forces operating in the Niger Delta are properly trained," he said in Abuja after...
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Nigeria is to create a new ministry to oversee the oil-rich Niger Delta, where militant groups have been attacking oil installations and kidnapping expatriate workers, Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua has announced.
Secretary to Government of the Federation, Alhaji Mahmud Yayale Ahmed, said the new ministry, which would have two...
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Somali pirates on Wednesday hijacked a South Korean cargo ship with 21 crew onboard but failed in an attempt to seize a Greek vessel in the Gulf of Aden, a maritime official said.
"Pirates attacked a fully loaded South Korean bulk carrier en route from Europe to Asia and successfully hijacked her," Noel Choong of the...
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A delegation from Iraq's national landmine authority is touring some of Cambodia's former Khmer Rouge strongholds as part of a bilateral effort to share expertise, a senior Cambodian government official said Wednesday.
Cambodian Mine Action Authority deputy director-general Heng Ratana said the Iraq delegation would visit former Khmer...
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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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