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DAMATURU. – Suspected Islamist militants stormed a college in northeastern Nigeria and shot dead around 40 male students, some of them while they slept early yesterday, witnesses said.
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RIYADH. – A Saudi cleric sparked a wave of mockery online when he warned women that driving would affect their ovaries and bring “clinical disorders” upon their children.
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WASHINGTON. – The House of Representatives early yesterday brought the federal government closer to a shutdown as it voted to delay President Barack Obama’s landmark healthcare law for a year as part of an emergency spending bill.
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By Seyed Mostafa Khoshcheshm TEHRAN – When CNN aired an interview with Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani this week that misled the public and the world media through its falsified translation of the President’s remarks about the Holocaust, and when, after FNA’s protest, it sought to project the blame on others, many, specially here in Tehran, […]
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WINDHOEK — Despite the high demand for mushroom in Namibia, community mushroom farming projects are struggling to become sustainable.
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NEW YORK – The High Level Committee of African Heads of State and Government on the Post-2015 agenda held their first meeting on September 23 in New York, on the sidelines of the 68th United Nations General Assembly.
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WINDHOEK – The African Union Commission (AUC) in collaboration with the NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency (NPCA) held the Africa Day high level meeting on, 25 September 2013 in Windhoek, Namibia. Under the theme sustainable land management: Africa on the front line, the high level meeting took place in the framework of the Eleventh Conference […]
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NAIROBI – Investigators looking into the Kenya mall attack have determined the attackers or their associates rented and operated a small store in the mall a year before the attack, according to a Kenyan intelligence official involved in the investigation.
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STOCKHOLM – Leading climate scientists said on Friday they were more certain than ever before that mankind is the main culprit for global warming and warned the impact of greenhouse gas emissions would linger for centuries.
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JOHANNESBURG – Four years ago then US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pointed out that suicide bombers were being recruited in South Africa for terrorist group al-Shabab.
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NAIROBI – A top Kenyan government official says investigators have recovered a vehicle believed to have been used by the terrorists who attacked Nairobi’s Westgate Mall.
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NAIROBI – Interpol has issued an arrest notice for Samantha Lewthwaite, the fugitive British national who has been dubbed the “white widow.”
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NAIROBI. — Five days after Islamist gunmen attacked the Westgate Mall here and hunkered down for a siege that ended only three days later, the call for answers is growing.
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NAIROBI/BUJUMBURA. — Gunmen stormed a Kenyan police compound in a town on the border with Somalia and sprayed bullets into officers’ homes yesterday, killing two before setting more than 10 vehicles on fire, police said.
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BEIJING/MOSCOW. — China wants the United Nations Security Council to reach consensus on a draft resolution on Syria’s chemical weapons at an early date, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said yesterday.