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Taliban Attacks Heart of Afghan Capital
Taliban militants have attacked the heart of the Afghan capital, setting off explosions and battling security forces. At least four blasts shook a busy area of Kabul Friday, in the second major attack in the city in a little more than a week. Shooting erupted in the area as militants and security forces engaged in a fierce gunbattle. Afghan officials say two of the attackers were ...
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Bullying in Turkish Military Becomes a Human Rights Issue
FILE -Turkish military station at the border gate with Syria, across from Syrian rebel-controlled Tel Abyad town, in Akcakale, Turkey, October 7, ...
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Kerry Urges Hard Decisions After Meetings with Israeli Palestinians
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (R) waves as he stands next to Palestinian Chief Negotiator Saeb Erekat before his meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah May 23, ...
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British Police Arrest Two on Diverted Pakistani Airliner
British police have arrested two men on board a Pakistan International Airlines plane that was diverted to an airport near London. A Royal Air Force fighter jet intercepted the airliner - which was en route from Lahore to Manchester - and escorted it to Stansted Airport. Authorities said there had been "an incident" on board the plane. They said the two men were arrested on ...
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Pakistan Reiterates Opposition to US Drone Strikes
Pakistan has reiterated its opposition to U.S. drone strikes on its territory, after U.S. President Barack Obama justified "constrained" drone usage to save lives. Pakistan's Foreign Ministry said Friday that drone strikes are counter-productive, kill innocent civilians, have human rights implications, and violate national sovereignty and international law. Pakistan said, ...
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Kerry Choice of Iranian Presidential Candidates Denies Popular Will
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Large Blast Hits Center of Afghan Capital
Afghan police say the blast went off close to the hospital for the state intelligence service. There were no immediate reports of ...
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Suspicions High as US China Summit Nears
BEIJING -- A top White House official is scheduled to arrive in Beijing this Sunday. His visit comes as concerns about cyber attacks, trade frictions and China’s territorial disputes with Japan test relations between the world’s two largest economies. The visit also comes as President Barack Obama and China’s new leader Xi Jinping prepare to hold their first talks next month in ...
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Kenya My passion healing snake bites is beyond making huge profits
Kitui County , 12 years ago. It was a hot afternoon and Augustus Mbila, 26, was walking home after a day's work on the farm. As he weaved his way through the dense shrubbery he felt what he thought was a thorn prick him just above his left ankle. But as Mbila bent to check his leg he saw a long, brown snake slither away. He was horrified to realise the 'prick' was the bite from ...
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Statoil Completes Tanzania Farm-In
Statoil ASA reported Friday that it has acquired a 12-percent working interest in the Block 6 license, offshore Tanzania, from operator Petrobras Tanzania. Block 6 covers 2,130 square miles in the Mafia basin, offshore Tanzania. It is located approximately 105 miles north of Statoil's Block 2, where the company made three high-impact gas discoveries in 2012 and earlier this year. After ...
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Angola to Carry Out Fumigation Campaign Against Mosquitoes in Luanda
Luanda, May 24 (Prensa Latina) Health brigades are set to carry out an intense three month fumigation campaign here in Angola's capital, to eradicate mosquitoes carrying dengue and malaria, reported government sources here today. Throughout Luanda, Cuban health workers will collaborate with an anti-vector control group and other agencies to eliminate mosquito breeding grounds, said the ...
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Web Series Black Folk Dont Explores Stereotypes of African Americans
Black Public Media , is a web series that explores and debunks various stereotypes of Black Americans. The series is filmed in various cities, and various Black Americans are often asked to speak about certain common stereotypes of Blacks. As the panelists give fairly different answers and responses to the stereotype, the stereotype is challenged itself. Topics covered include suicide, therapy, ...
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Niger Al-Qaeda Attack 20 people dead as dozens others left injured in Niger Africa News
Both attacks were carried out as people prepared for early morning prayers known as Fajir just after 05:00 local time (04:00 GMT). Local reporters say a military camp and a French-run uranium mine in two towns in north-west of the country were the target of the terrorists. A bomb at a barracks in Agadez killed 19, including 18 soldiers while four terrorists died in the attack and a passbyer. ...
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Defence confirms SA troops sent to countries around CAR
The defence minister has confirmed that South African National Defence Force soldiers have been deployed to countries around the Central African Republic. ...
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Kenya asks UN to squash ICC case
New York - Kenya on Thursday got a chilly reception to its appeal to the United Nations Security Council to ';terminate'; International Criminal Court cases against the president and deputy president for planning and financing Kenya's 2007-08 post-election violence in which more than 1 000 people died and 600 000 were evicted from their ...
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Exxon InterOil discussing Papua New Guinea investment
Exxon and InterOil are talking about a deal on InterOil's assets in Papua New Guinea. Exxon Mobil Corp. and InterOil Corp. are in exclusive talks on a possible investment by an Exxon subsidiary in InterOil's gas assets in Papua New Guinea. InterOil has its U.S. corporate office in the Woodlands, though its business is primarily focused in Papua New Guinea and the surrounding region. The ...
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Africa’s Lincoln or a tyrant exploiting Rwanda’s tragic story
Paul Kagame is angrier than I’ve ever seen him. Rwanda’s president is famously direct with his critics. His contempt for governments he’s crossed swords with, led by the French, is only marginally less vitriolic than his view of human-rights groups daring to lecture him, the rebel leader whose army put a stop to the 1994 genocide of 800,0000 Tutsis. But now even friends are ...
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Uganda boxing trainer gives expert advice to aspiring pugilists
If you don’t get into the ring once or twice, then you’re a coward, Geoffrey Ima says as he describes people’s attitudes toward boxing in his hometown in Uganda. Ima has been in the ring hundreds of times and came to love boxing so ...
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Africa Investing in Africas Women
Cape Town - Invest and empower other women on the continent. This is the key message that came from former South African first lady and head of the Grace Machel Foundation, Graca Machel. Her inspiring words were delivered during her keynote address at the Women Inspiration and Enterprise (WIE) symposium in Cape Town, South Africa - attended by some of the continent's most powerful women. ...
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Africa Zim Lags Behind As Africa Marks New Era
Herbert Moyo/Hazel Ndebele - TOMORROW Africa celebrates 50 years since the formation of the African Union (AU), formerly the Organisation for African Unity (OAU), on May 25 1963 withsome countries, including Zimbabwe, reeling from political repression, struggling economies, poverty and instability. It will also be a little more than a decade since the formation of AU, which seeks to promote ...
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Africa The African Union - Is It Time for Cultural Diplomacy to Take Centre-Stage
It is time for the African Union to push for cultural diplomacy in the form of a Museum of African Music, Arts and Culture as an entity for both preservation and a celebration of our similarities as well as the richness of our cultural ...
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Africa Minister Confirms Troop Deployment
Cape Town - Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula confirmed on Friday that South Africa had deployed troops in countries neighbouring the Central African Republic. But this was merely to support the withdrawal of SA National Defence Force troops from the troubled state, she told the Cape Town Press Club. She said after South Africa suffered 13 fatalities in a rebel attack near Bangui in ...
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Its All in the Mind for South African Kirsten
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UN chief challenges African leaders over Congo
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is urging African leaders to implement a plan that the U.N. hopes will stabilize eastern Congo after years of ...
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Dr. Salah Ali Meets with the Chairman of the Central Authority for the Prevention of Bribery in Morocco
Rabat, May 24. (BNA) - On the sidelines of the on-going visit of the Bahraini official human rights delegation to Morocco, Human Rights Affairs Minister Dr. Salah bin Ali Abdulrahman met here today with the Chairman of the Central Authority for the Prevention of Bribery Abdesselam Aboudrar. Dr. Salah Ali praised the solid deep-rooted Bahraini-Moroccan ties of fraternity and cooperation, and was ...
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Kenya leading the world on credit access
Kenya has been hailed by the World Bank as a world leader in financial innovation, revamping its financial services sector in such a way that access for the poor to micro-loans is made easier, providing the means to independence and future prosperity.
Proponents of micro-loans argue that they are a significant means of lifting the poor out of poverty and providing them with the means by which to develop financial independence. When one considers that Kenya has a population in which around 56% of people live below the poverty line, the government’s efforts to increase access to credit and financial services for the poor becomes poignant. Read more
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