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LONDON. — Two brothers arrested entering Britain at the port of Dover appeared in a London court yesterday charged with attending a terror training camp in Syria. Mohommod Hassin Nawaz (29) and Hamza Nawaz (22) were arrested on September 16 at the southeast English port,
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LUSAKA — The African Development Bank (AfDB) has given research institutions in Africa funds to help them embark on research projects aimed at improving agricultural production on the continent, a senior official said in an interview with Xinhuaon Monday.
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THE HAGUE – The International Criminal Court on Monday briefly excused Kenyan Vice President William Ruto from his crimes against humanity trial so he can deal with the bloody Nairobi shopping mall siege.
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BEIJING – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad accused foreign nations of giving orders to “terrorists” battling his government’s forces in an interview with China’s state CCTV broadcast Monday.
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PESHAWAR – Angry Christians protested across Pakistan on Monday to demand better protection after a devastating double suicide bombing at a church killed more than 80 people.
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NAIROBI – The terror attack on a Kenyan shopping centre that has left 68 dead was being led by the white English widow of a 7/7 bomber, it was claimed last night.
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THE Southern African Development Community (Sadc) has a new Executive Secretary, Dr Stergomena L. Tax from the United Republic of Tanzania.
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HONG KONG. – A super typhoon Usagi hit Hong Kong yesterday, forcing the closure of the city’s schools, amusement parks and bathing beaches, and disrupting hundreds of flights. The Hong Kong Observatory issued a No. 8 storm signal, the third highest level, at 6:40 p.m.,
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BERLIN. -Angela Merkel, an unflappable pastor’s daughter, cemented her title as the world’s most powerful woman yesterday, triumphantly romping home to a third term as German chancellor. Her position during what may be the last of her juggernaut election
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ISLAMABAD. – At least 56 people were killed and 120 others injured when a twin suicide bomb attack hit a Christian church in Pakistan’s northwest city of Peshawar yesterday, hospital sources said. Chief executive of Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar, which admitted all the
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JINAN. — Bo Xilai, former secretary of the Chongqing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and a former member of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau, was sentenced to life imprisonment yesterday for bribery, embezzlement and abuse of
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BAGHDAD. — The UN yesterday warned against revenge attacks in Iraq after two blasts killed 73 people in a Shiite area of Baghdad a day after a Sunni mosque was bombed. Saturday’s bombings struck near funeral tents for a tribal sheikh in the Sadr City district of north
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JAFFNA. — Sri Lanka’s main Tamil party won a landslide victory yesterday in landmark elections in the battle-scarred north, raising hopes of some degree of self-rule for the ethnic minority after decades of war. The opposition Tamil National Alliance won 30 out of 38 seats in
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MAIDUGURI. — The death toll from an attack in north-eastern Nigeria that saw insurgents dressed as soldiers set up checkpoints and gun down travellers on a highway has risen to at least 142, an official said yesterday. “We recovered 55 bodies on Wednesday and 87 on
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JINAN, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) — Bo Xilai, former secretary of the Chongqing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and a former member of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Sunday for bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power.