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Ethiopian police arrest opposition backers
Sep 29 2005 9:36PM (CT)
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) - Ethiopian authorities have arrested hundreds of opposition supporters in recent days leading up to a major opposition rally that had been planned for this weekend, government opponents said Thursday.
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Egyptian minister OKs European presence
Sep 29 2005 9:20PM (CT)
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - The Egyptian foreign minister on Thursday said Cairo and the Palestinians would accept a European presence to secure the border crossings, sea port and airport in the Gaza Strip.
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Algerians vote on peace plan
Sep 29 2005 7:46PM (CT)
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) - Algerians voted Thursday on a peace plan the government says will help the country move on from a brutal Islamic insurgency that left an estimated 150,000 dead, but which critics charge will whitewash past crimes.
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Few vote in Algerian referendum
Sep 29 2005 6:41PM (CT)
SIDI RAIS, Algeria (AP) - The pain remains just beneath the surface of this dusty town on the doorstep of the Algerian capital, the scene of one of the bloodiest massacres in an Islamic insurgency that voters on Thursday were asked to put behind them.
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Somalia piracy reaching alarming levels
Sep 29 2005 8:24AM (CT)
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Somalia's pirates are nothing if not brazen _ not only seizing a ship carrying U.N. food aid but using it to hijack another ship off the coast of their lawless land in the Horn of Africa.
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Voters cast ballots in Somaliland election
Sep 29 2005 3:13AM (CT)
HARGEISA, Somalia (AP) - Residents of the breakaway Somaliland voted Thursday in the first multiparty parliamentary elections since the region separated from Somalia more than a decade ago.
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