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Congo leader marries longtime girlfriend
Jun 16 2006 8:33PM (CT)
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - Congo's president married his longtime girlfriend Friday in a civil ceremony attended by top government officials.
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Security Council OKs transfer of Taylor
Jun 16 2006 8:17PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. Security Council authorized the transfer Friday of former Liberian President Charles Taylor to an international tribunal that will try him for war crimes.
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Somalis again protest peacekeeper vote
Jun 16 2006 1:47PM (CT)
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - About 10,000 opponents of Somalia's transitional government and its proposal for foreign peacekeepers demonstrated Friday in the capital, which is controlled by an Islamic militia accused by the United States of harboring wanted al-Qaida members.
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S. Africans mark 1976 Soweto Uprising
Jun 16 2006 1:42PM (CT)
SOWETO, South Africa (AP) - President Thabo Mbeki led hundreds of South Africans on a march Friday in the footsteps of children whose bloody uprising 30 years ago reshaped the struggle to end apartheid.
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South African youth still fighting battles
Jun 16 2006 6:46AM (CT)
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - Young people in the new South Africa are struggling to confront AIDS, sexual violence and poverty. Thirty years ago, their predecessors fought to bring down a racist regime whose legacy still haunts the nation.
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