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Gunmen shot and killed a food monitor for the United Nations' World Food Program on Thursday, the second killing of a WFP humanitarian worker in Somalia in three days, a spokesman for the agency said Thursday. |
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The U.S. Navy has started a force to battle pirates attacking ships in and near the Gulf of Aden off Somalia's coast, the U.S. Fifth Fleet said Thursday. |
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The Zimbabwean government has announced restrictive licensing fees for foreign journalists working in the country, demanding they pay an annual fee of US$4,000 to practice journalism. |
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A French merchant ship was released by pirates off Nigeria at the weekend, its owners reveal, as the Chinese navy begins patrolling waters in the pirate-plagued Gulf of Aden off Somalia. According to news reports at least 15 vessels have requested their protection. |
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A leading Zimbabwean human rights activist must remain in custody until the Supreme Court decides whether the charges against her are valid, a judge ruled Tuesday. |
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An outbreak of the deadly ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo has prompted neighboring Angola to close its border with that country, Angola's state news agency reported Tuesday. |
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Two journalists -- one British and one Spanish -- who were kidnapped in Somalia in November have been released, according to a Somali press group. |
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Opposition candidate John Evans Atta Mills has narrowly won Ghana's presidential election, the Ghana Electoral Commission said on its Web site. |
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The lawyer for a top Zimbabwean human rights activist said Friday that law has "absolutely broken down" in the country after a court in Harare ruled against her client. |
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Anti-apartheid campaigner Helen Suzman, twice nominated for a Nobel Peace prize, died Thursday at her home in Johannesburg, South Africa. She was 91. |
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Pirates holding a Saudi-owned supertanker off the coast of Somalia have set the vessel free, according to Andrew Mwangura of the Kenya Seafarers Association. |
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A Zimbabwe court ruled Friday that seven activists, including a freelance journalist, must remain in custody as they await trial for a series of bombings. |
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Zimbabwe's central bank will introduce a $50 billion note -- enough to buy just two loaves of bread -- as a way of fighting cash shortages amid spiraling inflation. |
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Pirates holding a Saudi-owned oil supertanker off the coast of Somalia have set the vessel free after receiving a ransom payment, a piracy monitor in neighboring Kenya said Saturday. |
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Zimbabwe's main opposition party has asked organizations such as the United Nations to help find 11 supporters who were allegedly abducted by government agents, a party spokesman said. |
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A Nigerian militant group released pictures Sunday of two Britons identified as captive oil workers, saying the men were "alive and well" and that more such Western workers would be taken hostage if the country does not stop exporting its oil wealth. |
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A militia killed a ranger in a Democratic Republic of Congo park where authorities are trying to protect endangered gorillas threatened by civil war, the park said. |
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Colleagues and bloggers are praising a park ranger shot dead last week in Congo's Virunga National Park as a brave and committed protector of gorillas. |
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The mountain gorillas in a national park in Congo appear to be hanging on well despite such dangers as civil warfare and poaching, according to an ongoing census. |
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Ethiopian forces propping up Somalia's transitional government have begun their withdrawal from the country, pulling out of two key bases in Mogadishu, eyewitnesses and officials said Tuesday. |
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Supporters of democracy around the world can celebrate the January 7 inauguration of Ghana's new president, professor John Evans Atta Mills, who defeated the leader of the incumbent party in a December 28 runoff election by a mere 41,566 votes out of 9,001,478. |
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One of the pirates who held a Saudi-owned oil supertanker off the coast of Somalia before releasing it for ransom over the weekend told CNN how four in his group drowned in an operation gone wrong. |
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A former militia leader in the Democratic Republic of Congo will go on trial later this month, charged with drafting children to fight for his militia's military wing. It will be the first trial held by the International Criminal Court. |
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Deaths in Zimbabwe related to the cholera epidemic are approaching 2,000, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, and close to 40,000 people have been affected by the preventable water-borne disease. |
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A Russian naval ship rescued a Dutch container vessel under attack by suspected Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden, the head of the International Maritime Bureau said Wednesday. |
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A top Zimbabwean human rights activist facing charges of recruiting people for insurgency training and terrorist bombings is a "threat to society" and must remain in custody, the country's attorney general said. |
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Desmond Tutu's distinctive cackle cuts through the noisy clatter of cutlery at one of his favorite cafes. |
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African leaders are meeting in Harare in an effort to resolve a long-standing power-sharing dispute between embattled Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai. |
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More than 160 miners were freed Sunday after 24 hours trapped more than a mile underground in a gold mine in South Africa, union officials told CNN. |
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Seven French soldiers were killed when their military helicopter crashed off the coast of Gabon, the country's official news agency said Sunday. |
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Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe warned that a meeting Monday with the leader of the opposition will be the last before he forms a government. |
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Zimbabwe's main opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, returned to the country Saturday but vowed that he would not be rushed to join an inclusive government. |
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The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution Friday expressing its intent to, eventually, send U.N. peacekeeping forces back to the fractured, unstable nation of Somalia. |
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Piracy off the coast of Somalia rose nearly 200 percent in 2008 compared to the year before, with bolder attacks over greater distances, an international piracy monitor said Friday. |
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The U.S. Air Force has begun flying equipment into Darfur to support a United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in the war-ravaged Sudanese province, the military announced Wednesday. |
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Islamist militants took almost full control of Mogadishu on Thursday, less than 24 hours after Ethiopian troops withdrew from Somalia's capital, a witness reported. |
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Desmond Tutu's distinctive cackle cuts through the noisy clatter of cutlery at one of his favorite cafes. |
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African leaders are meeting in Harare in an effort to resolve a long-standing power-sharing dispute between embattled Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai. |
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More than 160 miners were freed Sunday after 24 hours trapped more than a mile underground in a gold mine in South Africa, union officials told CNN. |
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Seven French soldiers were killed when their military helicopter crashed off the coast of Gabon, the country's official news agency said Sunday. |
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Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe warned that a meeting Monday with the leader of the opposition will be the last before he forms a government. |
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Zimbabwe's main opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, returned to the country Saturday but vowed that he would not be rushed to join an inclusive government. |
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The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution Friday expressing its intent to, eventually, send U.N. peacekeeping forces back to the fractured, unstable nation of Somalia. |
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Piracy off the coast of Somalia rose nearly 200 percent in 2008 compared to the year before, with bolder attacks over greater distances, an international piracy monitor said Friday. |
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The U.S. Air Force has begun flying equipment into Darfur to support a United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in the war-ravaged Sudanese province, the military announced Wednesday. |
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Islamist militants took almost full control of Mogadishu on Thursday, less than 24 hours after Ethiopian troops withdrew from Somalia's capital, a witness reported. |
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Desmond Tutu's distinctive cackle cuts through the noisy clatter of cutlery at one of his favorite cafes. |
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African leaders are meeting in Harare in an effort to resolve a long-standing power-sharing dispute between embattled Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai. |
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More than 160 miners were freed Sunday after 24 hours trapped more than a mile underground in a gold mine in South Africa, union officials told CNN. |
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Seven French soldiers were killed when their military helicopter crashed off the coast of Gabon, the country's official news agency said Sunday. |
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Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe warned that a meeting Monday with the leader of the opposition will be the last before he forms a government. |
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Zimbabwe's main opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, returned to the country Saturday but vowed that he would not be rushed to join an inclusive government. |
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The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution Friday expressing its intent to, eventually, send U.N. peacekeeping forces back to the fractured, unstable nation of Somalia. |
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Piracy off the coast of Somalia rose nearly 200 percent in 2008 compared to the year before, with bolder attacks over greater distances, an international piracy monitor said Friday. |
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The U.S. Air Force has begun flying equipment into Darfur to support a United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in the war-ravaged Sudanese province, the military announced Wednesday. |
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Islamist militants took almost full control of Mogadishu on Thursday, less than 24 hours after Ethiopian troops withdrew from Somalia's capital, a witness reported. |
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Desmond Tutu's distinctive cackle cuts through the noisy clatter of cutlery at one of his favorite cafes. |
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African leaders are meeting in Harare in an effort to resolve a long-standing power-sharing dispute between embattled Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai. |
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More than 160 miners were freed Sunday after 24 hours trapped more than a mile underground in a gold mine in South Africa, union officials told CNN. |
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Seven French soldiers were killed when their military helicopter crashed off the coast of Gabon, the country's official news agency said Sunday. |
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Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe warned that a meeting Monday with the leader of the opposition will be the last before he forms a government. |
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Zimbabwe's main opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, returned to the country Saturday but vowed that he would not be rushed to join an inclusive government. |
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The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution Friday expressing its intent to, eventually, send U.N. peacekeeping forces back to the fractured, unstable nation of Somalia. |
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Piracy off the coast of Somalia rose nearly 200 percent in 2008 compared to the year before, with bolder attacks over greater distances, an international piracy monitor said Friday. |
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The U.S. Air Force has begun flying equipment into Darfur to support a United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in the war-ravaged Sudanese province, the military announced Wednesday. |
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Islamist militants took almost full control of Mogadishu on Thursday, less than 24 hours after Ethiopian troops withdrew from Somalia's capital, a witness reported. |
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Desmond Tutu's distinctive cackle cuts through the noisy clatter of cutlery at one of his favorite cafes. |
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African leaders are meeting in Harare in an effort to resolve a long-standing power-sharing dispute between embattled Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai. |
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More than 160 miners were freed Sunday after 24 hours trapped more than a mile underground in a gold mine in South Africa, union officials told CNN. |
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Seven French soldiers were killed when their military helicopter crashed off the coast of Gabon, the country's official news agency said Sunday. |
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Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe warned that a meeting Monday with the leader of the opposition will be the last before he forms a government. |
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Zimbabwe's main opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, returned to the country Saturday but vowed that he would not be rushed to join an inclusive government. |
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The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution Friday expressing its intent to, eventually, send U.N. peacekeeping forces back to the fractured, unstable nation of Somalia. |
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Piracy off the coast of Somalia rose nearly 200 percent in 2008 compared to the year before, with bolder attacks over greater distances, an international piracy monitor said Friday. |
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The U.S. Air Force has begun flying equipment into Darfur to support a United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in the war-ravaged Sudanese province, the military announced Wednesday. |
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Islamist militants took almost full control of Mogadishu on Thursday, less than 24 hours after Ethiopian troops withdrew from Somalia's capital, a witness reported. |
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Desmond Tutu's distinctive cackle cuts through the noisy clatter of cutlery at one of his favorite cafes. |
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African leaders are meeting in Harare in an effort to resolve a long-standing power-sharing dispute between embattled Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai. |
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More than 160 miners were freed Sunday after 24 hours trapped more than a mile underground in a gold mine in South Africa, union officials told CNN. |
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Seven French soldiers were killed when their military helicopter crashed off the coast of Gabon, the country's official news agency said Sunday. |
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Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe warned that a meeting Monday with the leader of the opposition will be the last before he forms a government. |
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Zimbabwe's main opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, returned to the country Saturday but vowed that he would not be rushed to join an inclusive government. |
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The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution Friday expressing its intent to, eventually, send U.N. peacekeeping forces back to the fractured, unstable nation of Somalia. |
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Piracy off the coast of Somalia rose nearly 200 percent in 2008 compared to the year before, with bolder attacks over greater distances, an international piracy monitor said Friday. |
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The U.S. Air Force has begun flying equipment into Darfur to support a United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in the war-ravaged Sudanese province, the military announced Wednesday. |
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Islamist militants took almost full control of Mogadishu on Thursday, less than 24 hours after Ethiopian troops withdrew from Somalia's capital, a witness reported. |
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Desmond Tutu's distinctive cackle cuts through the noisy clatter of cutlery at one of his favorite cafes. |
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African leaders are meeting in Harare in an effort to resolve a long-standing power-sharing dispute between embattled Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai. |
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More than 160 miners were freed Sunday after 24 hours trapped more than a mile underground in a gold mine in South Africa, union officials told CNN. |
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Seven French soldiers were killed when their military helicopter crashed off the coast of Gabon, the country's official news agency said Sunday. |
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Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe warned that a meeting Monday with the leader of the opposition will be the last before he forms a government. |
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Zimbabwe's main opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, returned to the country Saturday but vowed that he would not be rushed to join an inclusive government. |
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The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution Friday expressing its intent to, eventually, send U.N. peacekeeping forces back to the fractured, unstable nation of Somalia. |
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Piracy off the coast of Somalia rose nearly 200 percent in 2008 compared to the year before, with bolder attacks over greater distances, an international piracy monitor said Friday. |
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The U.S. Air Force has begun flying equipment into Darfur to support a United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in the war-ravaged Sudanese province, the military announced Wednesday. |
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Islamist militants took almost full control of Mogadishu on Thursday, less than 24 hours after Ethiopian troops withdrew from Somalia's capital, a witness reported. |
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Desmond Tutu's distinctive cackle cuts through the noisy clatter of cutlery at one of his favorite cafes. |
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African leaders are meeting in Harare in an effort to resolve a long-standing power-sharing dispute between embattled Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai. |
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More than 160 miners were freed Sunday after 24 hours trapped more than a mile underground in a gold mine in South Africa, union officials told CNN. |
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Seven French soldiers were killed when their military helicopter crashed off the coast of Gabon, the country's official news agency said Sunday. |
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Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe warned that a meeting Monday with the leader of the opposition will be the last before he forms a government. |
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Zimbabwe's main opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, returned to the country Saturday but vowed that he would not be rushed to join an inclusive government. |
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The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution Friday expressing its intent to, eventually, send U.N. peacekeeping forces back to the fractured, unstable nation of Somalia. |
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Piracy off the coast of Somalia rose nearly 200 percent in 2008 compared to the year before, with bolder attacks over greater distances, an international piracy monitor said Friday. |
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The U.S. Air Force has begun flying equipment into Darfur to support a United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in the war-ravaged Sudanese province, the military announced Wednesday. |
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Islamist militants took almost full control of Mogadishu on Thursday, less than 24 hours after Ethiopian troops withdrew from Somalia's capital, a witness reported. |
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Desmond Tutu's distinctive cackle cuts through the noisy clatter of cutlery at one of his favorite cafes. |
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African leaders are meeting in Harare in an effort to resolve a long-standing power-sharing dispute between embattled Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai. |
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More than 160 miners were freed Sunday after 24 hours trapped more than a mile underground in a gold mine in South Africa, union officials told CNN. |
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Seven French soldiers were killed when their military helicopter crashed off the coast of Gabon, the country's official news agency said Sunday. |
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Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe warned that a meeting Monday with the leader of the opposition will be the last before he forms a government. |
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Zimbabwe's main opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, returned to the country Saturday but vowed that he would not be rushed to join an inclusive government. |
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The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution Friday expressing its intent to, eventually, send U.N. peacekeeping forces back to the fractured, unstable nation of Somalia. |
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Piracy off the coast of Somalia rose nearly 200 percent in 2008 compared to the year before, with bolder attacks over greater distances, an international piracy monitor said Friday. |
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The U.S. Air Force has begun flying equipment into Darfur to support a United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in the war-ravaged Sudanese province, the military announced Wednesday. |
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Islamist militants took almost full control of Mogadishu on Thursday, less than 24 hours after Ethiopian troops withdrew from Somalia's capital, a witness reported. |
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Desmond Tutu's distinctive cackle cuts through the noisy clatter of cutlery at one of his favorite cafes. |
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African leaders are meeting in Harare in an effort to resolve a long-standing power-sharing dispute between embattled Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai. |
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More than 160 miners were freed Sunday after 24 hours trapped more than a mile underground in a gold mine in South Africa, union officials told CNN. |
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Seven French soldiers were killed when their military helicopter crashed off the coast of Gabon, the country's official news agency said Sunday. |
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Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe warned that a meeting Monday with the leader of the opposition will be the last before he forms a government. |
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Zimbabwe's main opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, returned to the country Saturday but vowed that he would not be rushed to join an inclusive government. |
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The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution Friday expressing its intent to, eventually, send U.N. peacekeeping forces back to the fractured, unstable nation of Somalia. |
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Piracy off the coast of Somalia rose nearly 200 percent in 2008 compared to the year before, with bolder attacks over greater distances, an international piracy monitor said Friday. |
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The U.S. Air Force has begun flying equipment into Darfur to support a United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in the war-ravaged Sudanese province, the military announced Wednesday. |
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Islamist militants took almost full control of Mogadishu on Thursday, less than 24 hours after Ethiopian troops withdrew from Somalia's capital, a witness reported. |
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Desmond Tutu's distinctive cackle cuts through the noisy clatter of cutlery at one of his favorite cafes. |
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African leaders are meeting in Harare in an effort to resolve a long-standing power-sharing dispute between embattled Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai. |
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More than 160 miners were freed Sunday after 24 hours trapped more than a mile underground in a gold mine in South Africa, union officials told CNN. |
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Seven French soldiers were killed when their military helicopter crashed off the coast of Gabon, the country's official news agency said Sunday. |
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Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe warned that a meeting Monday with the leader of the opposition will be the last before he forms a government. |
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Zimbabwe's main opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, returned to the country Saturday but vowed that he would not be rushed to join an inclusive government. |
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The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution Friday expressing its intent to, eventually, send U.N. peacekeeping forces back to the fractured, unstable nation of Somalia. |
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Piracy off the coast of Somalia rose nearly 200 percent in 2008 compared to the year before, with bolder attacks over greater distances, an international piracy monitor said Friday. |
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The U.S. Air Force has begun flying equipment into Darfur to support a United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in the war-ravaged Sudanese province, the military announced Wednesday. |
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Islamist militants took almost full control of Mogadishu on Thursday, less than 24 hours after Ethiopian troops withdrew from Somalia's capital, a witness reported. |
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Desmond Tutu's distinctive cackle cuts through the noisy clatter of cutlery at one of his favorite cafes. |
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African leaders are meeting in Harare in an effort to resolve a long-standing power-sharing dispute between embattled Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai. |
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More than 160 miners were freed Sunday after 24 hours trapped more than a mile underground in a gold mine in South Africa, union officials told CNN. |
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Seven French soldiers were killed when their military helicopter crashed off the coast of Gabon, the country's official news agency said Sunday. |
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Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe warned that a meeting Monday with the leader of the opposition will be the last before he forms a government. |
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Zimbabwe's main opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, returned to the country Saturday but vowed that he would not be rushed to join an inclusive government. |
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The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution Friday expressing its intent to, eventually, send U.N. peacekeeping forces back to the fractured, unstable nation of Somalia. |
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Piracy off the coast of Somalia rose nearly 200 percent in 2008 compared to the year before, with bolder attacks over greater distances, an international piracy monitor said Friday. |
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The U.S. Air Force has begun flying equipment into Darfur to support a United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in the war-ravaged Sudanese province, the military announced Wednesday. |
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Islamist militants took almost full control of Mogadishu on Thursday, less than 24 hours after Ethiopian troops withdrew from Somalia's capital, a witness reported. |
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Desmond Tutu's distinctive cackle cuts through the noisy clatter of cutlery at one of his favorite cafes. |
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African leaders are meeting in Harare in an effort to resolve a long-standing power-sharing dispute between embattled Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai. |
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More than 160 miners were freed Sunday after 24 hours trapped more than a mile underground in a gold mine in South Africa, union officials told CNN. |
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Seven French soldiers were killed when their military helicopter crashed off the coast of Gabon, the country's official news agency said Sunday. |
