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Tirunish Dibaba of Ethiopa completed the first Olympic women's long distance gold medal double on Friday with an emphatic 5,000 metres triumph at the Beijing Games.
Dibaba, 22, ran away from her rivals on the last lap to win a slow-paced race a week after she dominated the 10,000m gold with the second best time in event...
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Tirunish Dibaba of Ethiopa completed the first Olympic women's long distance gold medal double on Friday with an emphatic 5,000 metres triumph.
Dibaba, 22, ran away from her rivals on the last lap to win the slow-paced race in 15 minutes 41.40 seconds. Victory came a week after she won the 10,000m gold.
As in the 10,000m, Elvan...
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Tirunish Dibaba of Ethiopa completed the first Olympic women's long distance gold medal double on Friday with an emphatic 5,000 metres triumph.
Dibaba, 22, ran away from her rivals on the last lap to win the slow-paced race in 15 minutes 41.40 seconds. Victory came a week after she won the 10,000m gold.
As in the 10,000m, Elvan...
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The Olympic showcase sport of athletics finally gets underway on Friday - with the 100 metres dash and 110m hurdles the most anticipated events.
World record holder Usain Bolt (9.72 seconds), former record holder Asafa Powell (9.74) and world champion Tyson Gay (9.77) form a formidable trio set to battle for gold on Saturday in what...
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Group of Eight (G8) leaders were cornered into
doing more for Africa on Monday as a row over the benefits of nuclear
energy brewed on the opening day of their summit.
The plight of millions of destitute Africans dominated the agenda in
Toyako, Japan, as the heads of government and state of the world's
richest countries came...
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After being hit by one of the most fierce flood in decades,
United Nations World Food Program (WFP) teams are sending medical aid and food
to Mauritania and Kenya
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helicopters and boats where necessary to help an estimated
1.5 million people affected by the natural calamity.
WFP is working together with Governments and...
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The European Union on Friday allocated an extra 21 million euros (32.4 million dollars) in emergency aid to Somalia, Eritrea and Ethiopia, officials said.
"The challenges in the Horn of Africa are huge and multi- dimensional ... Humanitarian aid is an expression of Europe's solidarity with those who are the most vulnerable,"...
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The UN Security Council voted unanimously Wednesday to terminate the
mission of military observers at a disputed border between Ethiopia and Eritrea.
The 15-nation council decided to entirely withdraw the mission,
which since last year had begun relocating their personnel out of a
temporary security zone after Eritrea increasingly...
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 Heavily armed Islamist militants took over a central Somali
town Sunday and killed two British and two Kenyan teachers, the Associated
Press reports. It appears that three of the victims are women and the fourth
victim is reported to be a Somali man with British citizenship, returned to his
hometown in order to build a...
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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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 According to witnesses and doctors reports on Friday, heavy
fighting between insurgents and Ethiopian troops backing Somalia's shaky
government has killed more than 40 people and wounded 50 others in the past 24
hours.
Ethiopian troops based at the former defense ministry in the
south of the capital killed eight civilians early...
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 September 11th is a day of celebration for the people of Ethiopia as
they cheer the coming of the third millennium.
The explanation for this lies in the history of the Western
calendar system. When Europe converted to the
Gregorian calendar in 1582, Ethiopians stuck with the Julian calendar, which
they had been using happily for...
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 At least five people were killed Monday in Ethiopia
by explosions, as the country celebrates the end of the Derg regime.
The incidents occurred in the eastern part regions. A grenade
exploded during a commemoration ceremony, attended a large number of people in
Degah Bur. Meanwhile an powerful explosion rocked the city of...
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 People in poor countries who suffer from multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) will get a faster diagnosis thanks to a new diagnostic test unveiled by the World Health Organisation (WHO). The new test will allow doctors in poor countries to find out within hours, instead of months, whether a patient suffers from MDR-TB. According to...
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 More than 200 million children under age 5 do not receive basic health care in case of illness. Poor children are visibly more exposed to sickening and death risk than the well-off ones.
About 10 million of these die annually, having treatable diseases like diarrhea and pneumonia as a cause, according to the ninth annual State of the...
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 Only less than 24 hours since the unfortunate event of the death of Ryan Shay in the Olympic Games trials Marathon on Saturday, another marathon took place, the New York City Marathon, won by Paula Radliffe.The incident has cast a cloud over the Sunday’s marathon due to the fact that the athlete world of long distance running is like a...
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 Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday in his traditional Christmas Day greeting
and Urbi et Orbi message "to the city and the world" urged the faithful
to accept God's "great light" of peace.
Christmas is the "holy day on which the 'great light' of Christ
shines forth, bearing peace," the pontiff said from the...
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 Prime Minister Gordon Brown has launched an international
campaign to help and improve the world’s poorest countries’ health problems.
The International Health Partnership (IHP) is trying to
re-enforce health systems in the developing world and make it easier for
struggling third-world nations.
"Our vision today is that we...
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 Lucy is the world’s most famous
fossil. The skeleton is said to be about 3.2 million years old; but although
this sounds quite very old, it seems that the Ethiopian government has another
opinion about it. Lucy has just started a bizarre fossil tour, at its home
country’s order, although the move has upset many scientists.
Lucy...
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 The “Give One Get One” (G1G1) campaign, launched by Nicholas Negroponte in 2005, is expected to start on Monday, being aimed to help the poorest children all over the world to have access to a computer, thus introducing them into the digital era and enhance their hopes for education and a hope for their future.The campaign consists in...
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 A recent discovery made in Ethiopia
will help scientists to better understand the history of the mankind. The
researchers have found in the Ethiopian grounds the fossils of an ape that
appear to be about 10 million year old. The scientists have examined the
fossils and have said that they suggest that man and the African great...
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 During an interview on CNN's Larry King Live, on Wednesday night, Brad Pitt declared that he wants to focus on his family more than career, as acting is becoming less important for him."It's become less and less a focus as I get older," he said. "I think it's really more of a younger man, younger woman's...
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 Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt never really denied they wanted a fifth baby to join their precious family, but now they confirmed it. While in Italy for this year’s annual Venice Festival, Brad Pitt, 43, told an Italian TV station he and Angelina are ready to have another baby. "Yeah, we're ready," he said, confirming all the...
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 More baby rumors have been emerging concerning Hollywood’s hottest couple, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, who are said to be trying to have another baby of their own. Already parents of four adorable children, Shiloh, 14 months, six-year-old Cambodian boy Maddox, Vietnamese son Pax Thien, three, and two-year-old Ethiopian girl Zahara,...
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 Actors Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have already adopted three children from different countries while having one of their own, but according to recent reports, their “rainbow family” is far from being completed. Sources close to Hollywood’s golden couple claim the two are currently searching for a fourth addition to their family, this...
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 Angelina Jolie says she and partner Brad Pitt are very careful to spend special time with each of their four children and to keep the family unity and harmony.
In an interview for Reader’s Digest, the beautiful Angelina Jolie gracefully shared some details about her family life. She confessed that she had not planned to have...
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 What Happened at the VMA 2008 Last Night?
The MTV Video Music Awards set its show last night. It seems that for its 25th anniversary, the VMA chose to back up Britney Spears’ comeback. And she did it! She won...
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