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JOHANNESBURG. — A South African commission of inquiry said yesterday that the police lied about the shooting to death of 34 striking miners at Marikana last year, in a searing criticism of police conduct.
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TEHRAN. — Syrian President Bashar Assad said he is committed to the chemical weapons agreement and vowed to hand over the country’s chemical arms to be destroyed.
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VATICAN CITY. — Pope Francis yesterday lashed out at what he called the scandal of “airport bishops”, urging his peers to remain rooted in their dioceses and spend less time seeking the spotlight.
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TRIPOLI. — Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s second-eldest son, Saif al-Islam, made a rare appearance yesterday in a court in Libya’s Zintan, west of the capital Tripoli on security charges.
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LONDON – Tony Blair’s daughter Kathryn Blair has been held up at gunpoint by two muggers near her home, it has emerged.
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YAOUNDE – Police in Cameroon have arrested a rebel leader from neighbouring Central African Republic, Abdoulaye Miskine, suspecting that he might launch cross-border raids, a source in the security forces said Thursday.
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ACAPULCO – The death toll from days of flooding in southern and central Mexico rose to 80 on Wednesday, and new reports of landslides in a village near the resort of Acapulco threatened to drive the number of casualties even higher.
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ADDIS ABABA – The New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD) Co-ordination Unit of the African Union received on September 18, some office equipment donated by the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) to help strengthen the capacity of the Unit. The handing over ceremony took place at the AU Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The […]
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MBABANE/ADDIS ABABA – In line with the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance, the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has deployed the African Union Elections Observation Mission to the Kingdom of
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WASHINGTON – President Obama’s first two defense secretaries criticised the administration’s handling of the Syrian crisis on Tuesday night and expressed skepticism about the chances that Russia will broker a deal to remove Syria’s chemical weapons. Both former
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MOSCOW. — Russia has dismissed a UN report on the August 21 sarin gas attack in Damascus as “biased and one-sided” and said Syria had given it evidence that rebels were responsible.
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PORT ELIZABETH. — More than 150 Somali-owned shops have been looted in four days of xenophobic violence in South Africa’s coastal city of Port Elizabeth, police said yesterday.
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BEIJING/THE HAGUE. — China called on the International Criminal Court to heed the pleas of African nations and the African Union with respect to the trials of Kenyan leaders, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said yesterday.
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OTTAWA. — A double-decker bus crashed into a passenger train at a crossing south of Canada’s capital yesterday, killing at least five people, an official said.
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BLANTYRE. — Malawi police said yesterday they have arrested three suspects in connection with the shooting of a top Treasury official about to expose a corruption syndicate.