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AWARAN. — Desperate villagers in south-west Pakistan clawed through the wreckage of their ruined homes yesterday, a day after a huge earthquake struck, killing more than 300 people and creating a new island off the coast.
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KHARTOUM. — Sudan’s Education Ministry yesterday announced a short-term suspension of all schools in the capital Khartoum due to ongoing protests against fuel prices increase.
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DAMASCUS – UN inspectors returned to Syria Wednesday to pursue a probe into alleged poison gas attacks, as Russia and the West wrangled over how to eliminate President Bashar al-Assad’s banned chemical weapons.
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BEIRUT – A decision by key Syrian rebel groups to break with the Western-backed National Coalition further splinters the opposition and poses a key challenge for its international supporters, analysts say.
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NEW YORK CITY – Syrian opposition leaders Tuesday openly took issue with the US government’s failure to launch a missile attack on the Syrian regime and pressed for assurances of US support in talks with US Secretary of State John Kerry.
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NAIROBI – Somalia’s al-Shebaab insurgents claimed Wednesday 137 hostages they had seized died in a Nairobi shopping mall siege, figures impossible to verify and higher than the number of people officially registered as missing.
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LONDON – A British national has been arrested in Nairobi over the bloody attack on a shopping mall by armed Islamists, a spokeswoman for the Foreign Office said on Wednesday.
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UNITED NATIONS — UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moonMonday galvanised heads of state, business leaders and philanthropists into joint action against extreme poverty, hunger and disease, to propel the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) across the finishing line.
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JERUSALEM – Israel, which is said to have aided Kenya during the deadly attack on a Nairobi mall, has long viewed East Africa as a region of major strategic and economic importance.
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CHICAGO – Dozens of Americans have been lured away from comfortable homes to join Somalia’s al-Shabaab insurgents, the Islamist group behind the bloody attack on a Kenyan mall.
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UNITED NATIONS. — World Bank president Jim Yong Kim announced on Monday that the Bank Group would invest at least US$700 million by the end of 2015 to help developing countries reach the Millennium Development
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GABORONE. — Botswana has urged its peers in the Southern African region to improve global competitiveness through utilising open and distance learning. Addressing delegates at the 48th Distance Education Association
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UNITED NATIONS/MOSCOW. — UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appealed yesterday to major powers to stop sending weapons to all sides in Syria, as he opened the annual General Assembly summit.
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QUETTA. — Eight people were confirmed killed and many more deaths were feared after a major earthquake hit southwest Pakistan yesterday, demolishing houses and sending people running into the streets in panic.
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KHARTOUM. — Sudanese police fired buckshot and tear gas yesterday to disperse demonstrators protesting against oil price hikes for the second consecutive day, witnesses said.