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Eritrea dismisses Ethiopia border stance
Jun 15 2007 10:24PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Eritrea dismissed Ethiopia's announcement that it has accepted a U.N. commission's ruling over a disputed town, saying Friday that Ethiopia attached conditions that undermined the spirit of the decision.
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No mechanical glitch caused Africa crash
Jun 15 2007 8:51PM (CT)
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - A preliminary investigation into a plane crash that killed 114 people in Cameroon last month has found no evidence of mechanical failure, Cameroon authorities said in a statement posted Friday on a government Web site.
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Somalia insurgents show missile in video
Jun 15 2007 5:57PM (CT)
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - A video circulating in Somalia's capital shows a masked man firing a surface-to-air missile _ a graphic but unsubstantiated claim that Islamic insurgents in the country are capable of shooting down planes.
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5 foreigners kidnapped in Nigeria
Jun 15 2007 11:07AM (CT)
WARRI, Nigeria (AP) - Gunmen abducted five foreigners Friday in Nigeria's restive southern oil heartland, with at least three of them seized and spirited away in a speedboat, officials said.
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Report: Children unpaid maids in Guinea
Jun 15 2007 2:18AM (CT)
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - Tens of thousands of elementary school-age girls work in Guinea for no pay as household servants in conditions akin to slavery, according to a report released Friday by Human Rights Watch.
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Ethiopian troops attacked in Somalia
Jun 15 2007 1:32AM (CT)
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Suspected Islamic insurgents attacked Ethiopian soldiers in the Somali capital, residents said Thursday, raising fears of a return of the violence that bloodied Mogadishu earlier this year.
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