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A SLOVAK court’s decision to block publication of an unfinished book about alleged high-level political corruption being written by investigative journalist Tom Nicholson,…
The (US) Federal Aviation Administration is proposing rules that would prevent private plane owners from keeping their flight records secret unless they can…
At 42 Avenue Foch, the tree-lined boulevard that is one of Paris's most expensive streets, looms a five-storey private mansion complete with disco,…
A statement purportedly from the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta(MEND), one of Nigeria’s largest militant groups, claims to have "attacked…
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Last July, five months before she accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf welcomed Chevron CEO John Watson into the executive mansion to herald one…
The Democratic Republic of the Congo has suspended the licenses of two airlines after one of their aircraft crashed over the weekend, killing President Joseph Kabila’s chief adviser…
In Rwanda, Paul Kagame is afraid of one woman, jailed opposition leader Victoire Ingabire Umhoza, and Rwandan investigative journalists are constantly under siege. Following the assassination of Leonard…
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Although newspapers and television stations are closing, the people's need to read is not declining and while governments can shut down newspapers, they cannot control…
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Rick Santorum's win in four key conservative states has raised new questions for Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, who has consistently led in the polls and received increasingly…
With no justice system in place yet, the ICC wants to extradite Gaddafi's son to The Hague... but the Libyan government sees his trial as an opportunity to…
Herman Cain, the U.S. presidential candidate who did not know that China had nuclear weapons, has expressed "hypothetical" interest in serving as the country's Secretary for Defense. Cain,…
U.S. President Barack Obama has sent 100 U.S. Army Special Forces to Uganda, ostensibly to hunt down rebel leader Joseph Kony, head of Uganda's notorious Lord's Resistance Army.…
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Nairobi — At end-November 2011, Somalia and the Central African Republic became the latest countries to commit to end the use of child soldiers -…
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Gillian Sithole, mine manager at Mbada Diamonds, one of the firms mining in the area, said…
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Although newspapers and television stations are closing, the people's need to read is not declining and…
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The Rwandan State House’s Counter Intelligence has picked up the investigation into the killing of top…
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It is no ordinary state visit as President Ian Khama yesterday led one of the most…