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Protesters teargassed as Cameroon’s Biya marks 30 years in power

YoopyaNov 7, 20120

YAOUNDE (Reuters) – Cameroonian security forces used teargas to disperse about a thousand opposition supporters who had gathered in the commercial capital on Tuesday to protest

Saudi women must uncover faces for security checks, council says

YoopyaNov 6, 20120

(Reuters) – Saudi Arabian authorities have rejected a conservative proposal to allow women to keep their faces covered during security checks, local media reported on

U.S. soldier charged with killing 16 Afghans appears in court

YoopyaNov 6, 20120

(Note strong language in the 11th paragraph) By Bill Rigby (Reuters) – A U.S. Army soldier charged with killing 16 Afghan civilians in a drunken rampage

Nigeria floods kill 363 people, displace 2.1 mln -agency

YoopyaNov 5, 20120

ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria’s worst flooding in at least half a century has killed 363 people since the start of July and displaced 2.1 million people,

Bahrain bomb blasts kill two foreign workers

YoopyaNov 5, 20120

Two foreign workers have been killed and a third seriously injured by bomb blasts in Bahrain, officials say. Police said there were five

Malawi suspends laws against homosexual relationships

YoopyaNov 5, 2012June 14, 20230

Malawi has suspended laws against same-sex relationships pending a decision on whether to repeal the legislation, the justice minister has said. Police have been ordered

Several killed in Syria car bombings

YoopyaNov 5, 20120

A number of people have been killed in two car bomb attacks in Syria. The first occurred outside a state-run development agency in Ziyara, a

Greece makes austerity push, workers gear for strike

YoopyaNov 5, 20120

(Reuters) – Greece’s government presented a new austerity package to parliament on Monday as a week of strikes and protests kicked off over proposals that

Insight: Shaky finances rattle Nigeria’s airline safety

YoopyaNov 5, 2012November 5, 20120

(Reuters) – Passengers arriving at Murtala Mohammed airport in Lagos could be forgiven for thinking they had stumbled into a refugee camp. In

Analysis: China’s mission impossible – a date for Hu’s military handover

YoopyaNov 5, 20120

(Reuters) – Outgoing Chinese president Hu Jintao is keeping the nation and the rest of the world guessing over whether he will seek to hang