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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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 US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with leaders from troubled
African nations Wednesday, calling for greater vigilance in keeping out
"negative forces" from Congo and a robust peacekeeping force for
war-torn Somalia.
Rice's 24-hour visit to the vast Horn of Africa nation was meant to
spur movement on...
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 Local authorities have reported that fighting has again
erupted in eastern Congo's North Kivu province between forces loyal to
dissident General Laurent Nkunda and the Congolese army.
Rebels and Congo's armed forces on Monday battled for
control of key towns in North Kivu province.
Congo's army attacked the rebel stronghold of...
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 The release in Sudan of a British school teacher jailed for naming a
teddy bear Mohammed was Monday hailed as a victory for "common sense"
in Britain.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Anglican Church leaders and mainstream
Muslim organizations hailed the decision by Sudanese President Omar
al-Bashir to pardon Gillian...
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 Two Muslim members of the upper house of British parliament met
Saturday with the British teacher who was convicted of blasphemy in
Sudan for allowing her students to name a teddy bear Mohammed.
Lord Ahmed, a peer in the House of Lords for the Labour Party, and
Baroness Warsi, of the Conservatives, met with Gillian Gibbons at...
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 Protests erupted in the Sudanese capital Khartoum Friday, with
thousands of angry demonstrators calling for the death of a British
teacher who was convicted of blasphemy for allowing her students to
name a teddy bear Mohammed.
The protestors poured out of mosques following Friday prayers, some
carrying knives and clubs, just a day...
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 A British schoolteacher has been found guilty of insulting religion by
a court in Sudan after she allowed her pupils to name a teddy bear
Mohammed.
Gillian Gibbons, 54, from Liverpool, was sentenced to 15 days and
would be deported, her lawyer said. Two other charges against her,
which included inciting hatred, were...
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 A British teacher has been charged by Sudanese authorities with
insulting religion and inciting hatred for allowing her pupils to name
a teddy bear Mohammed, the Foreign Office in London confirmed
Wednesday.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he was "surprised and
disappointed" at the charges, while Foreign Secretary David...
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 Statements released by aid officials and diplomats on
Tuesday talked about the latest fighting in east Chad which has disrupted
humanitarian operations and raised the risks for a European peacekeeping force
due to deploy there soon to protect civilians.
In the biggest clash for months between Chad's government
army and eastern...
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 British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has confirmed in a
recent statement that he will not attend next month's European Union-Africa
summit if Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is there.
Brown spoke Tuesday
shortly after President Mugabe told the Portuguese news agency Lusa that he
will attend the summit in Portugal's capital,...
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 According to local media reports, security forces were patrolling Senegal's
capital Thursday, where streets were reopened to traffic a day after hundreds
of young men protesting a move to clear the city of hawkers clashed with police
throughout Dakar.
The government late Wednesday agreed to allow vendors back onto certain
streets,...
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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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