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South Africa says it will withdraw its troops from the Central African Republic, as regional leaders at an emergency summit reject CAR's rebel leader.
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South Korea's defense minister is acknowledging that North Korea has moved a missile, but is downplaying concerns it could be used as part of a threatened attack. Meanwhile, Pyongyang has renewed its warning about the fate of a joint industrial...
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ALL AFRICA
[Leadership]With the scrapping of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UMTE), National Examinations Council (NECO), Public Complaints Commission (PCC) and National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP), among others and merging them...
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[Moroccan American Center for Policy]Lagos -The rising wave of terrorism in the country has been attributed to, among other factors, the affiliation of the Boko Haram sect to Mali rebels - Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and Al Shabab -...
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu wins the £1.1m ($1.6m) philanthropic Templeton Prize for 2013 for "affirming life's spiritual dimension", award organisers say.
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VOICE OF AMERICA
Crunch talks aimed at ending the ethnic partition of Serbia's former Kosovo province broke up without result on Wednesday, in a major setback for Serbia's hopes of starting European Union membership negotiations this year.
EU foreign policy...
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In Turkey, opponents of the state-controlled brothels for men are calling for equality with the establishment of brothels for women. The move comes as a century-old policy of state brothels is coming under increasing scrutiny.
In Taksim Square...
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[New Republic]Criminals are literally on the run as the Liberia National Police (LNP) continue to dramatically step up efforts aimed at underpinning their (criminals') ability to cause havoc for citizens as the case has been in the recent past.
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[Aswat Masriya]An Egyptian rights group condemned on Wednesday what it described as "continuous sexual and physical assaults" on nurses in some hospitals of Port Said.
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[This Day]Notwithstanding the various controversies facing him, Senator Iyiola Omisore, may have begun a strategic journey to becoming the next governor of Osun State, writes Anayo Okolie
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