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Mauritania frees 8 after embassy attack
Feb 18 2008 9:24PM (CT)
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP) - Mauritanian authorities have released all eight people who had been detained after an attack on the Israeli Embassy earlier this month for lack of evidence, officials said Monday.
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Southern Madagascar hit by big cyclone
Feb 18 2008 6:19PM (CT)
ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) - Madagascar authorities sought to regain contact with southern parts of this Indian Ocean island Monday, a day after a powerful cyclone destroyed homes and caused flooding before heading toward the African mainland.
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Protecting Darfur's women from rape
Feb 18 2008 3:34PM (CT)
KALMA, Sudan (AP) - U.N. peacekeepers in armored vehicles and pickup trucks whizzed into this refugee camp. A dozen women came to meet them, bringing their donkeys, water rations and homemade axes.
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Bush is warmly received in Tanzania
Feb 18 2008 2:44PM (CT)
ARUSHA, Tanzania (AP) - President Bush was swept up in an outpouring of affection Monday in Tanzania's rural north, where tens of thousands lined the road to see him, one woman burst into a dance of joy just from a hug and fierce-looking Maasai warriors leapt and chanted in his honor.
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US intensifies pressure on Kenyan rivals
Feb 18 2008 12:47PM (CT)
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ratcheted up pressure on Kenya's rival politicians to share power and put a disputed presidential election behind them Monday, holding out U.S. reconstruction aid as an incentive.
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US intensifies pressure on Kenyan rivals
Feb 18 2008 12:47PM (CT)
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ratcheted up pressure on Kenya's rival politicians to share power and put a disputed presidential election behind them Monday, holding out U.S. reconstruction aid as an incentive.
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US intensifies pressure on Kenyan rivals
Feb 18 2008 12:47PM (CT)
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ratcheted up pressure on Kenya's rival politicians to share power and put a disputed presidential election behind them Monday, holding out U.S. reconstruction aid as an incentive.
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US intensifies pressure on Kenyan rivals
Feb 18 2008 12:47PM (CT)
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ratcheted up pressure on Kenya's rival politicians to share power and put a disputed presidential election behind them Monday, holding out U.S. reconstruction aid as an incentive.
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Bush recognizes Kosovo's independence
Feb 18 2008 11:06AM (CT)
ARUSHA, Tanzania (AP) - President Bush on Monday hailed Kosovo's bold and historic bid for statehood, saying "The Kosovars are now independent."
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Nigerian militants ask for US mediation
Feb 18 2008 10:34AM (CT)
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Nigerian militants have asked President George W. Bush, who is on a six-day visit to Africa, to help end years of unrest in their country's impoverished oil-producing south.
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12 die in Guyana shooting
Feb 18 2008 9:27AM (CT)
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) - Gunmen killed 12 people, including three police officers, in a Sunday night assault on a small town in Guyana, authorities said. It was the second major attack blamed on gangs in recent weeks.
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Death toll in Afghan blast rises to 100
Feb 18 2008 5:06AM (CT)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - A provincial governor said Monday he had warned an anti-Taliban militia leader targeted in Afghanistan's deadliest suicide attack since the 2001 invasion that militants were trying to kill him. The death toll rose to more than 100.
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Death toll in Afghan blast rises to 100
Feb 18 2008 5:06AM (CT)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - A provincial governor said Monday he had warned an anti-Taliban militia leader targeted in Afghanistan's deadliest suicide attack since the 2001 invasion that militants were trying to kill him. The death toll rose to more than 100.
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Death toll in Afghan blast rises to 100
Feb 18 2008 5:06AM (CT)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - A provincial governor said Monday he had warned an anti-Taliban militia leader targeted in Afghanistan's deadliest suicide attack since the 2001 invasion that militants were trying to kill him. The death toll rose to more than 100.
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