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Ex-apartheid minister sparks debate
Aug 28 2006 9:54PM (CT)
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - A former police minister whose name is synonymous with the brutal repression of the white establishment's political opponents during apartheid has apologized for his past actions, a government official said Monday.
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Senior U.S. diplomat leaves Sudan
Aug 28 2006 9:31PM (CT)
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - Sudan's president on Monday declined to meet a senior U.S. diplomat visiting the country to press him to approve the deployment of U.N. peacekeepers in war-torn Darfur.
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War crimes prosecutor indicts warlord
Aug 28 2006 8:00PM (CT)
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court filed their first indictment Monday, charging a former Congolese warlord for allegedly abducting and recruiting children as young as 10 to fight in Congo's brutal civil war.
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Obama urges Kenyans to oppose corruption
Aug 28 2006 7:15PM (CT)
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Sen. Barack Obama urged Kenyans to take control of their country's destiny by opposing corruption and ethnic divisions in government during a policy speech Monday at the main university in his father's homeland.
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Brutal Ugandan rebels to stop fighting
Aug 28 2006 3:42PM (CT)
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - The leaders of a shadowy rebel movement that has terrorized Ugandans for nearly two decades went on local radio with a special announcement: As of Tuesday, their war is over _ the Lord's Resistance Army will stop fighting.
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Ballot battle threatens Congo's future
Aug 28 2006 10:15AM (CT)
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - Walls plastered with campaign posters from Congo's historic elections are peppered with bullet holes. Tank fire has smashed buildings just down bloodstained streets from voting centers in the war-battered capital.
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