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Moussa Bazama, an ambulance worker driving north taking the injured to treatment, said 50 people had been killed by the rockets, mortars and gunfire rocking residential areas in the desert town of Kufra. Lines of trucks and cars carrying hundreds of families were streaming out of Kufra on the highway leading towards the populated areas [...]
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Vice President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi is set to be declared president in the coming days, which will make his predecessor, Ali Abdullah Saleh, the fourth leader to be pushed from power in the Arab Spring uprisings that erupted early last year. While the voters were largely hopeful _ with some waiting in long lines [...]
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In the ruling in September, a lower court judge found that an immigration provision denying foreign maids the right to apply for permanent residency after seven years _ as other foreign residents can _ was unconstitutional. The case has divided Hong Kong, with some arguing that barring maids from applying for residency amounts to ethnic [...]
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Israel to rule on status of migrant children – 2/21/2012 11:29:46 AM Israel’s Interior Ministry has begun sifting through applications of over 2,000 children who are in Israel without legal status. A ministry official, Sabine Haddad, said Tuesday that legal status has been granted so far to 257 children, which will allow their families [...]
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Philip Hammond confirmed in a written statement published Monday that the reservists would form part of a deployment of up to 13,500 troops on land, at sea and in the skies. Hammond says some “reservists will provide a range of specialist capabilities and expertise, while the majority will form part of the support to Olympic [...]
Continue Reading UK calls up military reserves for Olympic duty
Yemen polling station blown up 1 day before vote AHMED AL-HAJ – 2/20/2012 11:08:54 AM A Yemeni security official says gunmen have blown up a voting station in the southern city of Aden one day before the country is to go to the polls to rubber stamp the vice president as the new head of [...]
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Iconic Sudanese singer Mohammed Wardi dies – 2/19/2012 11:15:17 AM Famed Sudanese singer Mohammed Osman Wardi, who popularized the music of his native Nubia, died Saturday at the age of 80, the state media reported. The reports said the singer died of kidney complications in a Khartoum hospital. His funeral early Sunday was aired [...]
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The 11-month-old Syrian uprising began with mostly peaceful protests in a number of the country’s impoverished provinces. As security forces violently suppressed them, killing thousands, the protest grew and escalated into an increasingly armed insurrection. Syria has faced mounting international condemnation over its crackdown on protesters, including harsh sanctions and political isolation. Egypt’s decision follows [...]
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