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Zimbabwe crisis turns hearses into buses
Aug 2 2007 9:29PM (CT)
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - Funeral parlors have put hearses to work as buses to provide desperately needed public transport, in yet another illustration of Zimbabwe's economic collapse.
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About 100 dead in Congo train accident
Aug 2 2007 4:44PM (CT)
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - A passenger train derailed in central Congo and eight cars tumbled off the tracks, killing about 100 people and trapping some passengers in the wreckage, officials said Thursday.
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Official: Libya to get French missiles
Aug 2 2007 4:14PM (CT)
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) - Moammar Gadhafi's long-isolated Libya has signed two contracts for missiles and communications equipment with French companies totaling $405 million, a government official said Thursday.
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Sierra Leone convicts 2 of war crimes
Aug 2 2007 3:33PM (CT)
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) - Two former members of a pro-government militia were convicted of war crimes Thursday, the second round of rulings by a U.N.-backed court attempting to punish those most responsible for brutalities committed during Sierra Leone's decade-long civil war.
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Darfur's Arab tribes battle each other
Aug 2 2007 2:44PM (CT)
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Darfur's nomadic Arabs, some of them part of the feared janjaweed militia implicated in atrocities against civilians, have turned on each other in clashes that reportedly killed dozens this week.
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Ebola-like fever kills 1 Ugandan
Aug 2 2007 2:17PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - An outbreak of the Ebola-like Marburg virus at a remote Ugandan mine has killed one person and possibly infected several others, a World Health Organization spokesman said Thursday.
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SAfrica says HIV epidemic easing
Aug 2 2007 12:38PM (CT)
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - The HIV infection rate is dropping among young, pregnant women in South Africa but it is on the rise for the country's older women, according to a government study released Thursday.
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8 killed, 20 wounded in Mogadishu
Aug 2 2007 6:20AM (CT)
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Mortars slammed into homes in the Somali capital after fighting between insurgents and Ethiopian troops, killing eight people, including a mother and her two daughters, witnesses said Thursday.
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U.N. evacuates dozens of staff in Congo
Aug 2 2007 12:35AM (CT)
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - The U.N. evacuated dozens of staff Wednesday from a remote east Congo town after mobs of stone-throwing protesters angry over the possible return of refugees from a minority ethnic group ransacked U.N. and other humanitarian agencies there, officials said.
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