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Ethiopia flood death toll reaches 250
Aug 10 2006 4:58PM (CT)
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) - The death toll from Ethiopia's worst ever flash floods climbed to 250 Thursday and was expected to rise as crews searched for more bodies, authorities said.
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Malawi president wants prosecutor out
Aug 10 2006 4:00PM (CT)
BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) - Malawi's president demanded Thursday the resignation of a top prosecutor for withdrawing corruption charges against the nation's previous leader.
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Incumbent Kabila has the lead in Congo
Aug 10 2006 2:27PM (CT)
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - Incumbent President Joseph Kabila had the lead with more than 1 million votes counted, but the numbers were far from definitive, with election workers in dugout canoes still looking for ballots in the troubled tally.
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2 more oil workers kidnapped in Nigeria
Aug 10 2006 2:06PM (CT)
PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (AP) - Gunmen in military fatigues seized two foreign oil workers in southern Nigeria early Thursday, the latest violence targeting the petroleum industry in Africa's largest producer, authorities said.
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Rwandan immigrant charged with genocide
Aug 10 2006 9:23AM (CT)
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - A Rwandan immigrant accused of ordering the killing of Tutsis dragged out of an ambulance during the 1994 genocide has been arrested and charged with war crimes and torture, a prosecution spokeswoman said Thursday.
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U.N.: Darfur is becoming 'catastrophic'
Aug 10 2006 8:12AM (CT)
GENEVA (AP) - The United Nations' top humanitarian official warned Thursday that the situation in Sudan's war-ravaged Darfur region was becoming dramatically more dangerous, as rapes and attacks by militias and rebel factions continue despite a 3-month-old peace deal.
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