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The rebel leader Laurent Nkunda agreed to support UN efforts to restore peace in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo yesterday even as his troops were battling government forces. After meeting the UN special envoy, Olusegun Obasanjo, Nkunda said he would respect a ceasefire, contribute to a...(more)
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A car bomb killed a prominent Croatian journalist and one of his colleagues, an act that the country’s president and prime minister called an assassination.
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BANGKOK, Nov. 20 -- An explosion at an anti-government protest site in central Bangkok early Thursday killed one man and wounded 23 others, prompting a leader of the demonstration to call for a mass rally against the government on Sunday. Police said they believe the...(more)
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AFP - Southern African leaders were under pressure to get tough with Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe as they gathered Saturday for a last-ditch effort to save a stalled power-sharing deal.
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African leaders grappled Sunday with a long-simmering crisis in Zimbabwe and a new humanitarian catastrophe in Congo, lamenting that war and political conflict are still blocking development in the world's poorest continent.
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AP - A court in military-ruled Myanmar has sentenced an additional nine pro-democracy activists to 65-year prison terms, relatives and activists said Saturday.
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Reuters - Aid agency efforts to help thousands of people displaced by fighting in eastern Congo mostly failed on Saturday, despite an appeal by African leaders for a ceasefire.
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AP - The United Nations says the Congo army has clashed with rebels in a town outside the provincial capital, Goma.
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AFP - Riot police beat dozens of students and pro-democracy activists marching on Tuesday through Zimbabwe's capital to demand a new government to tackle the country's worsening economic and political crisis.
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Six months ago, the Democratic Republic of Congo signed a $9 billion agreement with China to provide Beijing with copper and cobalt in exchange for thousands of miles of roads and railways (BBC). Optimists saw the deal as a sign that the Congolese government--voted to...(more)
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Communist guerrillas, disguised as anti-narcotics agents, barged into a poorly guarded provincial prison southeast of Manila and freed seven of their comrades in a daring 15-minute attack staged without firing a shot, officials said Sunday.
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AP - Government troops in Indian Kashmir opened fire Sunday on hundreds of angry protesters demanding the release of several people arrested during a recent strike, killing one and wounding at least three others, a police official said.
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