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At least 23 dead in Kenya bus crash
Jul 19 2005 9:46PM (CT)
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - A bus overtaking a truck in southern Kenya crashed Tuesday, killing at least 23 people and injuring 33 others, police said.
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Nobel laureate urges Africans to rise up
Jul 19 2005 9:37PM (CT)
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai on Tuesday challenged Africans to rise to the challenges facing the world's poorest continent _ not wait for handouts.
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U.N. official reports on Niger crisis
Jul 19 2005 9:07PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The west African nation of Niger is suffering "an acute humanitarian crisis" in which children are dying because the world community ignored U.N. appeals for urgent aid, the U.N. humanitarian chief said Tuesday.
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At least 150 said killed in Togo violence
Jul 19 2005 8:59PM (CT)
LOME, Togo (AP) - Togo security forces and allied militia fighters have killed at least 150 people since April elections, Amnesty International said in a report released Tuesday.
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Kenya police said to arrest 4 activists
Jul 19 2005 10:32AM (CT)
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Police used tear gas and water cannons and sealed off roads leading to the National Assembly to try to deter demonstrators opposing constitutional amendments that retain the wide-ranging powers of Kenya's president.
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Africa calls for end to injustice at U.N.
Jul 19 2005 3:35AM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Africa presented its proposal for expanding the U.N. Security Council, saying it's time to give a voice to billions of people in the developing world and end the historic injustice that left the continent without a permanent seat on the U.N.'s most powerful body.
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