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ALUM KULAM, Sri Lanka — As gray-bellied clouds started to blot out the scorching sun, Sara Waeathi, 46, and her sister Kannaga, 30, called their seven children inside just as a light rain accelerated to a downpour.
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - A bomb exploded in a mosque in the southern Iranian city Shiraz on Saturday, killing at least nine people and wounding more than 100, Iranian media reported.
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INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama tried to quell a political furor on Saturday over his comments about small-town Pennsylvanians, saying he used the wrong words to describe their mood.
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Founded: 1980
Member countries: Angola, Botswana, DR Congo, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe
Aims: Development, economic growth, regional integration, common political values and systems, promote peace and security
Role in Zimbabwe: Appointed South African President Thabo Mbeki to mediate in 2007 - new election law agreed but MDC later said […]
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At the last Southern African Development Community emergency summit seven months ago, leaders gave Mugabe a standing ovation, just months after a crackdown in which police beat Tsvangirai so badly he had to be hospitalized.
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Just as the controversy over Hillary Clinton’s claim about “landing under sniper fire” in Bosnia had died down, her husband, Bill Clinton, has stirred it up again.
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The Pope will pray for the redemption of Islamic terrorists when he visits the site of the September 11 attacks in New York next week.
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ROME (April 11) - Italian police have recovered a rare statue of a
Roman emperor who co-ruled alongside Marcus Aurelius and was known
for his reluctance to sit for portraits.
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The Prime Minister said he was “appalled” at the latest developments in Zimbabwe and called on Mugabe to announce the election result.
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Zimbabwe’s opposition yesterday called a general strike after officials said President Robert Mugabe would snub a regional summit called to discuss rising fears of bloodshed over delayed election results.
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This list, though hardly exhaustive, provides an overview of some of Africa’s major contemporary civil conflicts.
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The United States has decided to restore diplomatic ties with Libya, long on its list of state sponsors of terrorism. The U.S. has not had formal diplomatic relations with Libya since 1980. (May 15, 2006)
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By Bridget Johnson, your guide to Journalism
At first glance, when you hear that Zimbabwe is having a presidential election, you just expect stuffed ballot boxes and every other manner of vote-rigging possible. After all, Robert Mugabe has ruled the country — which now has a pathetic life expectancy of 37 years for men and 34 […]
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It’s not surprising [that residents of small-town America] get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them… Barack Obama, April 6 in San Francisco
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It’s Friday, but there’s no winding down on the Sky.com News desk!
We’ve found some good stories on the internet today, including the artist who has brought Where’s Wally? into the 21st century.
22-year-old Melanie Coles, has painted a huge Wally on the rooftop of a building in Vancouver, which can be seen by Google Earth […]
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Robert Mugabe has been accused of using the military to intimidate his political opponents. Sky News has uncovered the first independent evidence that he is using violence against the opposition. Stuart Ramsay reports from inside Zimbabwe.
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Comedian Jack Dee is to release a book of “personal memories and experiences”.
Transworld has signed up the memoir, which will be published via its Doubleday imprint next autumn.
The company said it had been pursuing Dee for three years and had agreed a deal after a “hotly contested” auction.
Editor Susanna Wadeson said: “I have been […]
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One of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s senior aides was assassinated Friday in the Iraqi holy city of Najaf, officials said.
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April 11, 2008 — The American-born wife of a British billionaire was busted after she allegedly tried to smuggle crack cocaine and heroin into an event at the US Embassy in London.
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Randi Rhodes Back on the SF Airwaves After Hillary/Ferraro Slam
Randi Rhodes will be back on the air Monday in San Francisco. It’s been a long couple of weeks for the highly-rated liberal chat show host.
Remember how the now former Air America host got herself suspended last week for stuff she said at a March 22 […]