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Guinea votes in long-delayed parliamentary election

YoopyaSeptember 28, 2013March 31, 2024

by YoopyaSeptember 28, 2013March 31, 20240

(Reuters) – Guineans voted on Saturday in a parliamentary election to complete its transition to democracy after a 2008 military coup and end decades of...

Business

Analysis: Iran outreach to US faces tests at home

YoopyaSeptember 28, 2013March 31, 2024

by YoopyaSeptember 28, 2013March 31, 20240

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Before leaving for the United Nations, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said he hoped to open a new era in...

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Near stricken Kenya mall, humanity and unity shine

YoopyaSeptember 28, 2013April 3, 2024

by YoopyaSeptember 28, 2013April 3, 20240

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The volunteers kept bringing food, boxes upon boxes of cookies and bottled water. After shoppers and workers were mowed down by...

Asia News

Security tight at Miss World crowning in Indonesia

YoopyaSeptember 28, 2013April 3, 2024

by YoopyaSeptember 28, 2013April 3, 20240

BALI, Indonesia (AP) — Security is tight ahead of the crowning of Miss World on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali, where the event was moved...

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Pakistani girl shot by Taliban honored at Harvard

YoopyaSeptember 28, 2013April 3, 2024

by YoopyaSeptember 28, 2013April 3, 20240

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — A Pakistani girl who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban has been honored as Harvard University’s humanitarian of the year....

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More than 3,000 protesters on Khartoum streets demand Bashir quit

YoopyaSeptember 28, 2013April 3, 2024

by YoopyaSeptember 28, 2013April 3, 20240

(Reuters) – More than 3,000 protesters took to the streets of the Sudanese capital Khartoum on Saturday to demand President Omar Hassan al-Bashir quit, witnesses...

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Liberia’s Charles Taylor loses appeal against war crimes conviction

YoopyaSeptember 26, 2013September 12, 2023

by YoopyaSeptember 26, 2013September 12, 20230

(Reuters) – Charles Taylor lost his appeal against a war crimes conviction on Thursday, judges confirming a 50-year jail term against the former Liberian president...

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Militant group attacks Kenyan border towns

YoopyaSeptember 26, 2013September 12, 2023

by YoopyaSeptember 26, 2013September 12, 20230

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The Islamic extremist group that killed scores of people at a Nairobi mall has now attacked two Kenyan towns near the...

Africa Asia World

Shabab: 137 killed in Kenya mall attack

YoopyaSeptember 25, 2013March 31, 2024

by YoopyaSeptember 25, 2013March 31, 20240

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The militant group behind the four-day takeover of a Nairobi mall claimed Wednesday that Kenyan government forces used chemical weapons in...

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Nigeria tells U.N. sparing no effort tackling terrorism ‘menace’

YoopyaSeptember 25, 2013March 31, 2024

by YoopyaSeptember 25, 2013March 31, 20240

(Reuters) – An Islamist insurgency in Nigeria’s northeast is challenging the country’s stability and every effort is being made to tackle the extremists with “due...