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Liberia elections to go ahead on schedule
Oct 5 2005 9:48PM (CT)
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) - Liberia's first postwar elections will take place on schedule next week, a mediator said Wednesday after emergency talks resolved a dispute that threatened to delay the long-awaited ballot.
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U.N. operations in Eritrea crippled
Oct 5 2005 8:11PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - An Eritrean ban on U.N. helicopter flights has crippled peacekeeping in the buffer zone with Ethiopia, cutting off food and medical supplies to troops stationed in remote areas that are riddled with land mines, a U.N. spokesman said Wednesday.
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Crew of freed U.N. ship tell of pirates
Oct 5 2005 5:41PM (CT)
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Speedboats swept out of the night, firing automatic weapons at the cargo ship. In less than five minutes, at least 15 Somali pirates had scrambled aboard, found the captain and seized control as the MV Semlow tried to deliver food aid.
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Zimbabwe to import maize to feed citizens
Oct 5 2005 4:21PM (CT)
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - The Zimbabwean government plans to assist at least 2.2 million people it says are incapable of feeding themselves until the next harvest, due in April 2006, according to the country's director of Social Welfare.
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