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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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 The new head of South Africa's ruling African National Congress Jacob
Zuma has been charged with corruption, racketeering, fraud and money
laundering, his lawyer said Friday.
Michael Hulley confirmed Zuma, 65, had received an indictment from
the National Prosecuting Authority to stand trial in August 2008,
according to the SABC....
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 Preliminary results on Friday from Kenyan presidential elections held
the previous day showed opposition candidate Raila Odinga establishing
a commanding lead over incumbent Mwai Kibaki, in polls seen as a test
of democracy in the East African nation.
If Odinga wins, and Kibaki relinquishes power, Kenya will be one of
the few...
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The six French aid workers sentenced to eight years' forced labour and
fined almost 9 million dollars for attempting to kidnap more than 100
African children could be flown out to France by Sunday, the Nouvel
Observateur magazine said Thursday.
Supporters of the L'Arche de Zoe (Zoe's Ark) aid organization
meanwhile have criticized...
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 Kenyans headed to the polls Thursday in the country's closest-ever
elections that provoked fears of fraud and violence in a country known
for relative stability, but were generally calm with only minor
violations.
Most polling stations closed down around 5 p.m. (1400 GMT) except
for a couple in Kibera, East Africa's largest slum,...
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 A court in Chad Wednesday sentenced six French aid workers to eight
years of forced labour for attempting to kidnap more than 100 African
children, reports said.
The members of L'Arche de Zoe (Zoe's Ark) were arrested in late
October as they attempted to resettle to Europe 103 children they said
were Darfuri orphans.
Further...
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Five Mauritanian Islamists have been arrested in connection with the
murder of four French tourists, the public prosecutor in Nouakchott
said Wednesday, amid speculation that terrorists were responsible for
the killings.
Police on Wednesday were concentrating their search on three Islamists said to have defected to neighbouring...
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 Somali police exchanged fire with a group of armed men who kidnapped
two foreign aid workers in the semi- autonomous Puntland region
Wednesday, hours after they were taken captive.
"I heard heavy gunfire between the policemen and the kidnappers. I
don't know whether the kidnappers were captured or whether the aid
workers were...
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 Three armed men on Monday attacked a French family in the desert near
the Mauritanian city of Aleg and killed four of members, the local
police chief said.
Two small children had been among the victims, it was said. The
family had come to the Saharan country for a holiday, according to the
police. Only the father survived with...
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 Rescue operations backed by the Egyptian army forces have been underway
Monday to extract possible survivors from the ruins of a collapsed
apartment building in Egypt's northern Mediterranean city of
Alexandria, sources said.
Five bodies were pulled from the rubble and two women - an Egyptian
and an American - were rescued after...
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 The trial of six French nationals charged over their attempt to spirit
out more than 100 African children from eastern Chad began in the
capital Ndjamena Friday, with the accused each facing up to 20 years in
prison if convicted.
The members of French aid charity l'Arche de Zoe (Zoe's Ark), who
are being tried alongside three...
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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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