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News veteran and political analyst, George Will is to leave ABC News for the FOX News Channel after putting in more than three decades. Will has been best known as a voice on ABC’s Sunday morning political discussion show, "This Week",…
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The US government has shut down for the first time in 17 years after President Barack Obama refused to bow to Republican demands that he roll back his signature healthcare law. Around 800,000 federal workers have been placed on…
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Three policemen have been killed by unknown gunmen in Egypt's volatile Sinai Peninsula on Monday, security sources said. A militant group released a video of a deadly drive-by shooting of a man identified as an army colonel. The Sinai…
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An explosion has ripped through a market in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, leaving at least 33 dead and dozens wounded, officials say. Police said they suspect the explosion was a car bomb and that it exploded in the Kissa…
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A network of public interest groups known as the United Nations Convention Against Corruption, UNCAC, Coalition, has warned that the Millennium Development Goals, MDGs, are bound to fail if governments do not take the fight against…
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Zimbabwe's President, Robert Mugabe on Thursday criticised the U.S. and former colonial power Britain and its allies for trying to control his nation and its resources. "Shame, shame, shame to the U.S. Shame, shame, shame to Britain and…
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President Goodluck Jonathan has urged the UN assembly to endorse Nigeria’s candidature for a non-permanent seat on the Security Council. The UN Security Council is the most powerful branch of the UN. It has power to authorize the…
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An ex-FBI agent, Donald Sachtleben, has pleaded guilty to leaking national defence information to a reporter about an al-Qaeda bomb plot and to child pornography charges. The plea agreement calls for him to be sentenced to a total of…
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Local media in Kenya reported Monday night that there was a possibility all hostages held by terrorists in the Nairobi shopping mall have been freed, even as the police were doing a final sweep of shops early on Tuesday. An…
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Iran and Russia have agreed to build a new nuclear power plant, Press TV reported on Monday. The agreement was reached in a recent Iran-Russia Joint Economic Commission, the head of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran, Ali-Akbar…
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