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Africans tell of Moroccan desert torment
Oct 18 2005 6:13PM (CT)
TOUIZGUE, Morocco (AP) - The 26-year-old Nigerian left his home in Casablanca one afternoon to buy sardines and orange juice for dinner. Police arrested him, seized his legal refugee papers and beat him, he says, displaying scratched and blackened wrists as proof of having been handcuffed.
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Parliament moves to impeach Malawi leader
Oct 18 2005 5:45PM (CT)
BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) - Malawi's opposition-dominated Parliament adopted procedures late Tuesday to impeach the president over allegations of misusing public funds and flouting the constitution.
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Libyans demonstrate against Bush's stance
Oct 18 2005 3:13PM (CT)
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) - Several hundred Libyans demonstrated Tuesday in the Libyan capital to protest President Bush's call for the release of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor sentenced to death for allegedly infecting 400 children with the AIDS virus.
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Dying village underscores impact of AIDS
Oct 18 2005 1:19PM (CT)
NAPASHA, Malawi (AP) - It's so quiet you can hear scrawny hens pecking at the dust. A few ragged children peer timidly from the shadow of their mud huts but show no interest in playing. Beyond them lie barren cornfields, abandoned to the blistering heat.
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