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Sudanese leader challenges Darfur plan
Mar 9 2007 11:18PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has sent a letter to the U.N. secretary-general challenging a plan to send U.N. peacekeepers to Darfur _ a setback to international efforts to stop the region's escalating violence.
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In Mauritania, democracy takes root
Mar 9 2007 1:45PM (CT)
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP) - Blue-robed nomads, village elders, lawyers and civil servants stream into Mauritania's presidential palace, urging the bespectacled man who seized control of this desert nation in a coup to stay in power. But Col. Ely Ould Mohamed Vall calls the cream-colored palace generations of dictators have refused to leave his "prison" _ and pledges to turn it over as promised to a democratically elected president after an election Sunday.
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Missing tourists said seen in Ethiopia
Mar 9 2007 8:10AM (CT)
MEKELE, Ethiopia (AP) - Five European tourists who went missing last week in northeastern Ethiopia are being held by kidnappers in a remote tribal region, Ethiopia's foreign minister said Friday.
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Moroccan police arrest terror suspect
Mar 9 2007 6:20AM (CT)
RABAT, Morocco (AP) - Moroccan officials said Friday they have arrested an alleged member of a terrorist group that is believed linked to the 2004 Madrid bombings and 2003 attacks in Casablanca.
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U.N.: Rape widespread in Darfur conflict
Mar 9 2007 12:38AM (CT)
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - Women in Darfur continue to be subjected to rape by all sides in the brutal conflict in western Sudanese region, the U.N. human rights chief said Thursday _ International Women's Day.
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