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The mayor of the Iraqi city of Falluja was shot dead while bombings in various locations across the country have killed 24 more people, the police reported Thursday. Adnan al-Jalbawi, Falluja's mayor for the past three years, died in a…
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Spanish police say they have arrested 25 people in a sex-trafficking ring that brought women from Nigeria to work as prostitutes. The women, allegedly lured with the promise of good jobs in Europe, were first flown to Mexico or Brazil,…
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Iran’s Culture and Islamic Guidance minister, Ali Jannati, has urged the government to legalize access to social-networking websites including Twitter and Facebook. The country currently blocks access to websites it considers politically…
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The United Nations, UN,  estimates that around 9.3 million people in Syria, about 40 percent of the population,ww need humanitarian assistance due to the country's two and half year civil war. The population of Syria is around 23…
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The trial of Egypt's deposed President Mohamed Morsi which commenced on Monday was forced into an adjournment after chants by his Muslim Brotherhood supporters disrupted proceedings. The trial that was held at Police Academy in eastern…
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Guinea-Bissau will postpone an election planned for November until early next year due to lack of funds, officials said on Friday. The election is supposed to return the West African country to democracy after a military coup last year…
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Egypt's deposed President Mohammed Morsi has rejected the authority of the court that will try him for inciting the killing of protesters, the Muslim Brotherhood said. The movement said on its website that neither Egyptian nor foreign…
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The UN Secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, has condemned the killing of a Tanzanian peacekeeper in strife-ridden eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, by 23 March Movement, M23, rebels on Sunday. Ban, in a statement by his spokesperson,…
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An agency of the African Union estimates that Africa loses nearly $1 billion every week through illicit financial flows out of the continent chiefly through transactions involving multinational companies. The New Partnership for Africa's…
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The Kenyan government has fired 15 immigration officers following an audit on the Westgate Mall attack in September. The Interior Cabinet Secretary, Joseph Ole Lenku, on Friday in Nairobi , said that the officers were implicated in the…
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