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Woman lashed in Somalia over cannabis
Aug 24 2006 8:54PM (CT)
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Islamic leaders in Mogadishu on Thursday gave a woman 11 lashes for selling cannabis, the first female to receive such punishment since the fundamentalist rulers took over the capital in June.
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2 more foreigners kidnapped in Nigeria
Aug 24 2006 5:50PM (CT)
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Gunmen seized two foreigners in Nigeria's oil-producing region Thursday and shot dead one soldier in the latest hostage-taking to hit Africa's largest petroleum producer, officials said.
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Sudan ruling party rejects resolution
Aug 24 2006 4:42PM (CT)
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - Sudan's ruling party rejected a proposal to transfer peacekeeping in the troubled Darfur region from a weak African force to a larger and stronger U.N. mission, saying that would put the nation under the control of foreign powers, official media reported Thursday.
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Sen. Obama seen as inspiration in Kenya
Aug 24 2006 2:29PM (CT)
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Barack Obama may have only landed Thursday for his latest visit to his father's homeland, but the U.S. senator has already become the country's most prominent "citizen."
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13 injured in fighting in East Timor
Aug 24 2006 9:54AM (CT)
DILI, East Timor (AP) - Rival gangs armed with machetes and stones fought in East Timor's capital late Thursday, injuring at least 13 people, witnesses and officials said. Hundreds of youths took part in the fighting in front of Guido Valadares Hospital, an Associated Press reporter at the scene said.
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Sudan party rejects U.N. resolution
Aug 24 2006 3:13AM (CT)
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - Sudan's ruling party has rejected a proposed Security Council resolution to transfer peacekeeping duties in conflict-wracked Darfur to a U.N. force, saying it would violate national sovereignty, official media reported Thursday.
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