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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.
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UNITED NATIONS. — The UN agency charged with protecting inventions, trademarks, industrial designs and copyright on Monday called for better linkages between creators in developing countries and on-line
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NAIROBI – The four-day siege at Kenya’s Westgate shopping mall is over, the country’s president declared on tonight in a strongly worded statement of defiance against the terrorist threat to the east African nation.
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THE HAGUE – International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda offered Tuesday to help prosecute those behind the deadly attack on Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall, a statement said.
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Washington – In her series of high level meetings in Washington DC, United States this week, the Chairperson of the African Union Commission Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma has been making the case for increased United
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NAIROBI – Deputy President William Ruto on Tuesday morning visited some of Westgate terrorist attack victims admitted at Aga Khan and MP Shah Hospitals.
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CARACAS – Venezuela said Monday it has asked the United Nations for guarantees that its president and his entourage will be respected by the United States when they attend the General Assembly this week.
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NAIROBI – Somalia’s al Shabaab Islamist group said on Tuesday there were “countless dead bodies” in a Kenyan shopping mall as security forces searched for militants still holed up in the complex after a weekend attack that authorities say killed 62 people.
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Windhoek – In the margin of the Eleventh Conference of Parties to the United Nations Conference to Combat Desertification (UNCCD-COP11), the African Union Commission (AUC) in collaboration with the Food and Agricultural Organisation and Global Mechanism of the
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UNITED NATIONS— The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Monday called for more efforts to enable the humanitarian access to safeguard thousands of children’ s lives, as the plight of civilians trapped by the conflict inside Syria is becoming increasingly
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DHAKA. — Angry Bangladeshi garment workers blocked roads, set factories alight and clashed with police for a third day yesterday as protests demanding a minimum monthly wage of US$100 spread outside the capital. Abdul Baten, police chief of the Gazipur industria
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CAIRO. — An Egyptian court yesterday banned the Muslim Brotherhood from operating and ordered its assets seized, in the latest blow to the Islamist movement of deposed president Mohamed Morsi. The court also banned “any institution branching out from or belonging to the