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Nigerian candidate seeks medical care
Mar 6 2007 7:46PM (CT)
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - The ruling party candidate for Nigeria's crucial presidential elections is undergoing medical consultations related to a kidney ailment, party officials said Tuesday.
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NKorea orders return of diplomats' kids
Mar 6 2007 3:52PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea has ordered its diplomats stationed overseas to send their children back to the communist nation in an apparent attempt to prevent the diplomats from defecting, a news report said Tuesday.
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Mortar fire greets Somalia peacekeepers
Mar 6 2007 3:45PM (CT)
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - The first peacekeepers to arrive in Somalia's capital in more than 10 years were met with a surge of violence Tuesday, as mortar rounds hit the airport during a welcoming ceremony and a deadly gunbattle broke out on the city's crumbling streets.
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Crisis group: unrest grows in Zimbabwe
Mar 6 2007 3:13PM (CT)
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - The risk of "sudden major violence" is growing in Zimbabwe as it struggles with food shortages, record inflation of some 1,600 percent, repression and corruption, a respected international research group said Tuesday.
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Kenya envoy warns of terrorist threat
Mar 6 2007 2:13PM (CT)
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - The U.S. Embassy said Tuesday it has been alerted to a possible "terrorist attack" against this month's world cross-country championships in Kenya.
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Police seek missing Britons in Ethiopia
Mar 6 2007 2:01PM (CT)
MEKELE, Ethiopia (AP) - Investigators were working "around the clock" to find five Europeans linked to the British Embassy, but no one has claimed responsibility for their disappearance or made any demands, officials said Tuesday.
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Police seek missing Britons in Ethiopia
Mar 6 2007 2:01PM (CT)
MEKELE, Ethiopia (AP) - Investigators were working "around the clock" to find five Europeans linked to the British Embassy, but no one has claimed responsibility for their disappearance or made any demands, officials said Tuesday.
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2 U.S. troops killed in Ethiopia accident
Mar 6 2007 6:19AM (CT)
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Two U.S. troops were killed and another injured in a single-vehicle traffic accident in eastern Ethiopia, the U.S. military said Tuesday.
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27 die in Zimbabwe Bus crash
Mar 6 2007 6:17AM (CT)
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - A crowded bus collided with a freight train Tuesday, killing 27 people including the driver, police said.
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