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Mugabe defends evicting shack dwellers
Jun 9 2005 7:09PM (CT)
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - President Robert Mugabe on Thursday defended the eviction of tens of thousands of traders and shack dwellers from city streets as a two-day strike against the campaign got off to a slow start.
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Ethiopia stores closed after riots
Jun 9 2005 2:15PM (CT)
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) - Most stores were shuttered Thursday and families collected the dead for burial following riots over election results and government warnings that any more civil unrest would be dealt with sternly.
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Murder charges dropped in bombing case
Jun 9 2005 2:06PM (CT)
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - A judge dropped murder charges Thursday against four men accused in the al-Qaida car bombing of a resort hotel that killed 15 people, but police re-arrested one of them hours later.
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Africans wonder whether Live 8 will help
Jun 9 2005 1:51PM (CT)
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - They'll be grooving to Coldplay in London, rapping along with Will Smith in Philly, dancing mbalax with Youssou N'Dour in Paris. But in African cities and villages, they'll be worrying about day to day survival _ and questioning whether Western extravaganzas like the Live 8 concerts, however well intentioned, can help.
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U.N. court expects 2 or 3 new cases a year
Jun 9 2005 3:53AM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Two years after taking office, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court is investigating alleged war crimes in Congo, Uganda and Sudan's conflict-wracked Darfur region.
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