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U.N. removes peacekeepers after slayings
Jan 24 2006 10:30PM (CT)
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - The United Nations pulled its remaining peacekeepers out of the national park where eight Guatemalan peacekeepers were killed in an apparent gunbattle with Ugandan rebels, a U.N. spokesman said Tuesday.
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Medieval cemetery found in English city
Jan 24 2006 5:01PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - A medieval cemetery containing around 1,300 skeletons has been discovered in the central English city of Leicester, archaeologists said Tuesday.
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Nine killed in raid on Nigeria oil office
Jan 24 2006 4:33PM (CT)
PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (AP) - Camouflage-clad attackers raided an Italian oil company's offices Tuesday, sparking a gunfight that left nine people dead in Nigeria's petroleum-rich south, where four foreign oil workers are being held hostage.
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Shoddy work blamed in Kenya collapse
Jan 24 2006 4:25PM (CT)
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - The owner and contractor of a building that collapsed in Kenya's capital, killing at least 14 people, were rushing workers to complete the structure before the concrete on lower levels had set, the government said Tuesday.
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Serbia-Montenegro train crash kills 44
Jan 24 2006 6:55AM (CT)
BIOCE, Serbia-Montenegro (AP) - Emergency teams on Tuesday searched for survivors in the wreckage of a passenger train that derailed and plunged into a river canyon outside the Montenegrin capital, killing at least 44 people and injuring nearly 200, officials said.
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Sudan won't lead the African Union
Jan 24 2006 3:49AM (CT)
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - Sudan has withdrawn from the competition to lead the African Union amid criticism of its human rights record, a government spokesman said Tuesday. Diplomats said the presidency would go to the Republic of Congo.
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