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Ugandan leader challenges re-election
Mar 22 2006 10:30PM (CT)
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - Uganda's main opposition leader challenged President Yoweri Museveni's re-election in court Wednesday, saying the vote was marred by falsified returns, bribery and violence.
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Wind shears nine stories of Lagos landmark
Mar 22 2006 9:41PM (CT)
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Heavy winds ripped away much of the top nine floors of a fire-weakened Nigerian building early Wednesday, raining debris on mostly empty streets and leaving people on lower floors waving frantically for help.
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At least 20 killed in Somalia fighting
Mar 22 2006 1:34PM (CT)
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Islamic militiamen battled rival forces who have been challenging their growing power Wednesday, killing at least 20 people in some of the heaviest recent fighting in the chaotic Somali capital.
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Moroccans pulling for native son in Israel
Mar 22 2006 12:13PM (CT)
BOUJAD, Morocco (AP) - Past a faded green door, under washing flapping from a line, stands a dilapidated house that represents the beginning of a Jewish odyssey. The house on the Darb al-Kadareen alley in this town's Jewish quarter was once the home of a toddler named Armand Perez who would take the Hebrew name Amir Peretz and become the Israeli Labor Party's candidate for prime minister in Tuesday's election.
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Ethiopia drops charges against journalists
Mar 22 2006 11:11AM (CT)
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) - An Ethiopia court Wednesday dropped charges of treason, attempted genocide and other crimes against 18 people, including five Voice of America journalists, accused of attempting to overthrow the government.
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