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UN chief urges agreement on Darfur force
Nov 29 2007 9:48PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday he is "mobilizing all possible means" to get the Sudanese government's agreement on key issues so a 26,000-strong peacekeeping force can start deploying in Darfur in January.
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Teacher guilty of insulting Islam
Nov 29 2007 4:32PM (CT)
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - A British teacher in Sudan was convicted Thursday of the less-serious charge of insulting Islam for letting her pupils name a teddy bear "Muhammad," and was sentenced to 15 days in prison and deportation to Britain, one of her lawyers said.
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Teacher guilty of insulting Islam
Nov 29 2007 4:32PM (CT)
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - A British teacher in Sudan was convicted Thursday of the less-serious charge of insulting Islam for letting her pupils name a teddy bear "Muhammad," and was sentenced to 15 days in prison and deportation to Britain, one of her lawyers said.
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Teacher guilty of insulting Islam
Nov 29 2007 4:32PM (CT)
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - A British teacher in Sudan was convicted Thursday of the less-serious charge of insulting Islam for letting her pupils name a teddy bear "Muhammad," and was sentenced to 15 days in prison and deportation to Britain, one of her lawyers said.
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Measles deaths down 91 percent in Africa
Nov 29 2007 11:58AM (CT)
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - Africa has slashed deaths from measles by 91 percent since 2000 with an immunization drive, a rare success story for the continent, health officials said Thursday.
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Ebola outbreak in Uganda kills 16
Nov 29 2007 11:03AM (CT)
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - An Ebola outbreak has killed at least 16 people in western Uganda, a senior Ministry of Health official said Thursday.
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Atrocities alleged in eastern Ethiopia
Nov 29 2007 7:27AM (CT)
KEBRIDEHAR, Ethiopia (AP) - In the desert stretches of eastern Ethiopia, locals accuse soldiers fighting an insurgency of burning villages to the ground, committing gang rape and killing people "like goats."
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Senegalese president visits Zimbabwe
Nov 29 2007 5:54AM (CT)
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - A fellow African leader called Zimbabwe's president a brother, and urged the West to lift sanctions against Robert Mugabe's government.
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