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Sierra Leone to hold presidential poll
Aug 10 2007 8:29PM (CT)
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) - Voters in war-battered Sierra Leone will choose a president and legislators when they go to the polls this weekend, in the African nation's first election since U.N. peacekeepers withdrew from the diamond-rich nation two years ago.
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18 Nigerians charged with sodomy
Aug 10 2007 5:53PM (CT)
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) - Eighteen men face charges of sodomy in a Nigerian Islamic court after they were arrested while allegedly preparing to take part in a gay wedding, state media reported.
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South African AIDs plan in question
Aug 10 2007 3:47PM (CT)
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - The dismissed deputy health minister credited with revamping South Africa's beleaguered campaign against AIDS expressed fears Friday that her work would now be undone.
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Fossil hunter condemns Lucy tour of U.S.
Aug 10 2007 3:04PM (CT)
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - One of the world's leading paleontologists denounced Ethiopia's decision to send the Lucy skeleton on a six-year tour of the United States, warning Friday that the 3.2 million-year-old fossil will likely be damaged no matter how careful its handlers are.
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Kenya court clears 4 in filmmaker death
Aug 10 2007 9:22AM (CT)
NAIVASHA, Kenya (AP) - A Kenyan judge aquitted four men accused of killing a British wildlife filmmaker and naturalist in her home, ruling Friday that the investigation was "poorly done."
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British oil worker kidnapped in Nigeria
Aug 10 2007 7:46AM (CT)
PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (AP) - Gunmen kidnapped a British oil-industry worker as he traveled to work Friday in Nigeria's southern oil region, where gunfire rang out across the main city for a fifth day.
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