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Fuel tanker fire kills 15 in Ghana
Mar 25 2005 7:17PM (CT)
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) - Sparks from a welder's torch ignited a raging fire on moored Greek tanker Friday, killing three people and leaving 12 others feared dead, officials and witnesses said. The inferno forced the closure of the West African nation's sole oil refinery,
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Zimbabwe opposition has low expectations
Mar 25 2005 7:16PM (CT)
JURU, Zimbabwe (AP) - The run-up to next week's parliamentary elections in Zimbabwe has been the least violent in decades, but the country's main opposition leader said Friday the vote will not be free and fair because of subtle intimidation and memories of brutality past.
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U.S. to push for Bulgarian nurses' freedom
Mar 25 2005 5:08PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States promised Friday to do all it can to persuade Libya to free five Bulgarian nurses convicted of and sentenced to death for injecting the virus that causes AIDS into 400 children. International observers said the charges were contrived and extracted by torture.
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Ebola-like virus death toll up in Angola
Mar 25 2005 3:55PM (CT)
LISBON, Portugal (AP) - The death toll from an Ebola-like fever in the African nation of Angola rose to 112 on Friday, with three deaths reported in its capital.
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Holy war threatened in Somalia
Mar 25 2005 3:38PM (CT)
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - An Islamic leader on a U.S. terrorist list threatened a holy war Friday if an African peacekeeping force enters Somalia to try to install a new government and stop more than decade of clan warfare.
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U.N. Council sends peacekeepers to Sudan
Mar 25 2005 4:45AM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. Security Council voted to send 10,700 peacekeepers to Sudan to monitor a peace deal ending a 21-year-civil war, but left contentious issues of sanctions and how best to punish war criminals in the Darfur region for later debate.
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