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2 hrs ago | Daily News

Wives of Baghdad four appeal to JZ

The wives of four South African men abducted on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, nearly three years ago have made an emotional plea for help to President Jacob Zuma.

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Related Topix: Iraq, World News, South Africa,

7 hrs ago | Independent Online

Harare bank reform bill passed

Harare - Zimbabwe's lower house of parliament on Wednesday passed a bill to reform central bank operations that will reduce the powers of its governor, blamed by critics for the country's economic crisis.

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Related Topix: World News, Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe

12 hrs ago | CBC News

Tunisian court tries journalist detained on 'aggression' charges after presidential elections

Dissident journalist Taoufik Ben Brik has gone on trial before a Tunis court on aggression charges that the defence claims are trumped up.

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Related Topix: World News, Tunisia, Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, Entertainment

17 hrs ago | Gulf Times

Army, police quit Zimbabwe diamond fields

Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai talks to journalists at Harare airport before leaving for a trip to Morocco and Libya Zimbabwean security forces have started withdrawing from the country's eastern diamond fields to meet Kimberley Process reforms over human rights abuses, the government said yesterday.

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Related Topix: World News, Zimbabwe, Belgium

Thu Nov 19, 2009

News.com.au

Plane misses runway, lands in lava

United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo personnel secure a Compagnie Africaine d'Aviation plane that crashed in Goma airport / Reuters A PLANE has landed on hardened lava after overshooting a runway in eastern Congo, injuring 20 people Passengers onboard the plane, which was flying from Kinshasa to Goma, warned the crew of heavy ...

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Related Topix: Democratic Republic of the Congo, World News, Travel

Penticton Herald

Lebanese pop diva under fire for song comparing black Egyptians to monkeys

In this Tuesday, May 19, 2009 file photo, Lebanese model, actress, and singer Haifa Wehbe arrives at the 62nd International film festival in Cannes, southern France.

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Related Topix: World News, Egypt

KHOU-TV Houston

Kenya unveils constitution to avoid vote violence

A government-appointed panel this week unveiled a draft constitution that is part of wide-ranging efforts to avoid a repeat of political violence that saw more than 1,000 people killed after Kenya's December 2007 presidential elections.

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Related Topix: Kenya, World News, Mwai Kibaki

KHWB-TV Houston

Head of US international AIDS program says recession not dampening his efforts

The global recession is not dampening America's international drive to stop AIDS, the head of the campaign said Wednesday.

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Related Topix: HIV/AIDS, Health, World News, South Africa, Travel, South Africa Travel, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton,

Sunday Times

New anti-corruption committee

Cabinet has decided to set up a new anti-corruption inter-ministerial committee to deal effectively with all incidents of corruption in the public service, government spokesman Themba Maseko announced.

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Related Topix: South Africa, World News

Wed Nov 18, 2009

USA Today

Senegal Airlines commits to buy 6 Airbus jets at Dubai Airshow

Airbus said Wednesday it agreed to sell six jetliners to newly created Senegal Airlines, giving the European plane maker bragging rights to more than $5 billion worth of orders at a subdued Dubai Airshow.

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Related Topix: Senegal, Travel, Senegal Travel, World News, United Arab Emirates

IcEaling

Tories demand Megrahi medical files

The Scottish Government is facing demands to release all records on the Lockerbie bomber, 90 days after he was freed from jail on compassionate grounds.

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Related Topix: Prison, World News, Libya

Salisbury Journal

Jennifer Hudson to play Winnie

Jennifer Hudson is set to play Nelson Mandela's former wife Winnie in a forthcoming film.

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Related Topix: Jennifer Hudson, World News, South Africa,

Newsday.com

Obama meets with half brother in China

Barack Obama said Wednesday that he met briefly with a half brother who lives in China and who recently wrote a semi-autobiographical novel about the abusive Kenyan father they share.

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Related Topix: World News, China, Asia, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Kenya,

Air America Radio

Somali Pirates Free 36 Hostages, Claim $3M Ransom

Tuesday November 17, 2009 11:13 a.m. FILE - In this undated photo released by the family of crew member Pablo Costas, Spanish trawler Alakrana is seen at sea in an unknown location.

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Related Topix: Piracy News, Europe, Spain, World News, Somalia

Sunday Times

SA army instructors 'operating in Guinea'

South African and Israeli army instructors, hired by the ruling Guinea junta, are training pro-junta recruits in a camp in Forecariah, 100km south of Conakry, witnesses said yesterday.

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Related Topix: Guinea, World News,

Tue Nov 17, 2009

Daily News

Foreigners flee Boland xenophobia

About 1 000 foreign nationals have evacuated informal settlements at De Doorns in the Western Cape following a flare-up of xenophobia, police said on Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Lesotho, World News

Christian Science Monitor

Germany arrests Congo rebel leaders

Two Rwandan Hutu rebel leaders were arrested by Germany, charged with directing war crimes.

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Related Topix: Uganda, World News, Democratic Republic of the Congo

KXMA-TV Dickinson

Mozambique opposition claims election fraud

Mozambique's main opposition party says the ruling party stuffed ballot boxes and expelled opposition monitors from polling stations to help it win the country's Oct.

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Related Topix: Mozambique, World News

WIS-TV Columbia

Mugabe defends land reforms, attacks West

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has defended land reforms blamed for plunging his people into starvation and lashed out at the West for imposing "inhuman sanctions." Addressing a U.N. food summit Tuesday, Mugabe said the policy under which thousands of white-owned commercial farms were seized in 2000 was a quest for "equity and justice." He blamed ...

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Related Topix: Zimbabwe, World News, Robert Mugabe

FOX News

Kenyans Recruited to Fight in Somali Civil War

The recruits assembled by moonlight at a watering hole. Hundreds of boys and young Kenyan men were herded onto trucks, which were covered with heavy canvas, and driven through the night.

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Related Topix: Somalia, World News

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