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4 hrs ago | SignOnSanDiego.com

African leaders denounce international court

The decision at the African Union summit says AU members "shall not cooperate" with the court in The Hague "in the arrest and transfer of President Omar al-Bashir of the Sudan to the ICC." Sudan welcomed the move, and other Africans said it was a signal to the West that it shouldn't impose its ways on Africa.

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8 hrs ago | Hartford Courant

Michael Jackson moonwalk tribute draws hundreds in South Africa

Several hundred South Africans gathered on Friday for a moonwalking tribute to the King of Pop that reflected the diversity of the rainbow nation.

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Pop/Rock, World News, Michael Jackson, South Africa, Entertainment

13 hrs ago | Hampshire Chronicle

Body found in plane's undercarriage

An investigation is under way following the discovery of a man's body in the undercarriage of a plane after it arrived from Africa, police have said.

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Related Topix: Ghana, World News

17 hrs ago | Deseret Morning News

Comoros crash survivor welcomed back home in Paris

A severely bruised young girl believed to be the only survivor of an Indian Ocean plane crash flew back Thursday to Paris, where she was embraced gently by her father, who tried to lift her spirits with a joke.

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Related Topix: Comoros, World News, Air Accidents

22 hrs ago | The Winnipeg Free Press

Somalia fighting kills 25 in 2 days, witnesses say; insurgents seek to topple government

Fighting in the Somali capital has killed 25 people over two days, leaving corpses in the streets of a city where a bloody insurgency is intensifying, doctors and witnesses said Thursday.

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Related Topix: Piracy News, Somalia, World News, Travel

Yesterday | Southeast Asia News

Tsvangarai announces line of credit from China

Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai of Zimbabwe has announced that Harare has accepted a credit line of US$950 million from China.

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Related Topix: World News, Zimbabwe, Movement for Democratic Change (Zimbabwe), Robert Mugabe

Thu Jul 02, 2009

BBC

Guinea-Bissau vote faces run-off

Elections in Guinea-Bissau to replace assassinated President Joao Bernardo Vieira are to go to a second round, the electoral commissioner says.

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Related Topix: Guinea-Bissau, World News, Joao Bernardo Vieira

Manawatu Evening Standard

Doomed Air France jet broke up on impact

The Air France plane that crashed into the Atlantic last month hit the water intact and at high speed, but was missing for six hours before an emergency was declared.

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Related Topix: Air Accidents, Senegal, World News,

East Coast Radio

Return to work, govt tells docs

Government has called on public service doctors to end their strike and return to work immediately, saying their dispute is doing "considerable harm" to the sector.

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Related Topix: South Africa, World News

Daily News

Nationalise mines, says Malema

ANC Youth League President Julius Malema has called on South Africa's mines to be nationalised, according to an article in the Sowetan on Thursday.

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Daily News

IRB to crack down on eye-gouging

By Julian Guyer London - The International Rugby Board has vowed to "eradicate" the "particularly heinous" act of eye-gouging. Wednesday's announcement by the global governing body comes following the controversy caused by Springbok back-row Schalk Burger's eye-gouge on British and Irish Lions wing Luke Fitzgerald in the first minute of last ...

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Related Topix: South Africa,

Wed Jul 01, 2009

Washington Times

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A senior official in Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's party will stand trial in Zimbabwe in October on terrorism charges, his lawyer said Wednesday.

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Related Topix: World News, Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front, Movement for Democratic Change (Zimbabwe)

AlertNet

African crises escalate as AU leaders meet - 1.4 million homeless so...

African crises escalate as AU leaders meet - 1.4 million homeless so far this year in DRC, Sudan and Somalia 01 Jul 2009 05:35:00 GMT Source: Oxfam GB - UK Oxfam Website: http:/ / www.oxfam.org.uk Five people forced to flee every minute of 2009 in DRC, Sudan and Somalia, says Oxfam --------- Over 1.4 million people have been forced to flee their ...

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Related Topix: Somalia, World News

KHWB-TV Houston

Pilots: Yemeni airliner may have been attempting go-around after missed aproach

The Yemenia Airbus 310 that crashed into the Indian Ocean near Comoros may have been attempting a go-around in rough weather for another approach when it hit the sea, a pilots association says.

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Related Topix: Comoros, World News, Weather

Daily Times

Somali rebels threaten Ethiopia

MOGADISHU: Somalia's rebels threatened on Tuesday to attack Ethiopia after repeated witness reports that Ethiopian troops were back in the chaotic Horn of Africa country they withdrew from in January.

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Related Topix: Ethiopia, World News, Somalia, Meles Zenawi

KFVS

Report: Iran's Ahmadinejad cancels Libya visit

Iran's Fars news agency says that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will not attend the African Union summit in Libya as was expected.

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Related Topix: Libya, World News

Tue Jun 30, 2009

HeraldTribune.com

Feds: Auditor scam totaled more than $3 million

An international scam targeting U.S. state governments managed to rake in more than $3 million, including nearly $1 million from West Virginia, before it was caught, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

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Related Topix: World News, Kenya, North Carolina

PR-inside.com

Cameroon's president sacks prime minister

Cameroon's long-ruling president, Paul Biya, sacked his prime minister and reshuffled his cabinet, replacing key officials including the defense minister.

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Related Topix: World News, Cameroon, Paul Biya, Ephraim Inoni

StarNewsOnline.com

Vigilante Justice and Constant Fear in South Africa Slum

Published: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 5:10 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 5:10 a.m. DIEPSLOOT, South Africa - The two robbery suspects had already been viciously beaten, their swollen faces stained with rivulets of red.

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Related Topix: South Africa, World News,

KVAL - News - National & World News

Child survives Yemen jet crash with 153 on board

A Yemenia jet with 153 people on board crashed into the Indian Ocean on Tuesday as it tried to land during strong winds on the island nation of Comoros.

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Related Topix: Boat Disaster, Air Accidents, Comoros, France,

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