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AFRICA News, Sep 01, 2011


Why Did Early Humans Leave Africa Without the Latest Gadgets?
Science Now
Paleontologists used to think that humans didn't start leaving Africa until they had developed the advanced Acheulian tools. But recent discoveries of Oldowan tools in Dmanisi, Georgia, indicate that some of our prehistoric relatives must have left ...
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Introduction of new missal going smoothly in English-speaking nations
Catholic News Service
Member conferences include the United States, Canada, Ireland, England and Wales, Scotland, southern Africa (South Africa, Swaziland and Botswana), India, Pakistan, Philippines, New Zealand and Australia. The most recent translation of the Roman Missal ...
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Catholic News Service
West challenges Black Caucus members' 'hate-filled comments,' threatens to ...
Palm Beach Post
Get updates on the latest Lotto drawings plus coverage of the new multi-state Powerball game. Winning numbers More than 300 men and women with ties to Florida have given their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan. By George Bennett US Rep. ...
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Palm Beach Post
Fielkow's Resignation And The Politics Of Scheduling Louisiana Elections
Bayoubuzz
Latest in Louisiana Politics involving Burrell, Obama, Jobs and Transportation, Shreveport Elections, Tidbits and so much more.. Hurricane Irene raked the east coast United States causing considerable damage and some loss of life. ...
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Breaking Travel News Interview: Marthinus Van Schalkwyk, Minister of Tourism ...
Breaking Travel News
The most recent 2011 quarterly statistics released by Statistics South African show a 7.5% overall year-on-year increase in all arrivals, with overseas arrivals growing 9.7 percent. BTN How important is it for destinations to get onboard e-marketing ...
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Breaking Travel News
Oracle Reportedly Under Investigation for FCPA Violations
Main Justice
Investigators are examining, in part, the company's software sales to government agencies in Western and Central African countries, the Journal said, citing “people familiar with the matter.” High-tech companies have increasingly felt in recent years ...
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Aussie team's Eritrean signing
The Daily Telegraph
"His performance in the 2009 Tour de I'Avenir, where he finished sixth overall demonstrated his ability to mix it with quality riders," Bannan said of his latest recruit. Teklehaimanot made a clean sweep of the African Championships in 2011, ...
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Agriculture 'next big thing' in Africa, says World Bank expert
CNN International
With the right participation from small farm holders, private investors and public sector infrastructure funding, Ezekwesili claims agriculture could become Africa's latestboom industry, addressing "a lot of the jobs agenda on the continent. ...
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CNN International
Welbeck and Frimpong Ghana be great
The Voice
... their recent ascents have added to the Premier League's Ghanaian flavour. The duo further illustrate that the rise of the Black Stars is not confined to West Africa. They are the latest members of the Ghanaian diaspora to represent foreign nations. ...
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The Voice
US dance academy to perform in NZ
Voxy
An international dance company dedicated to African-American traditions will give New Zealand audiences a sneak preview of its latest production, ahead of its US viewers, at the Takitimu Festival in Hawke's Bay this month. Cleo Parker Robinson Dance is ...
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Infants Account Nearly 41% of Child Deaths, Claims Study
French Tribune
In addition, latest report claimed that during 1990 and 2009, there was a decrease in newborn death rate from 4.6 million to roughly 3.3 million. However, the study authors have marked the progress very slow, particularly in Africa. ...
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French Tribune
Migraine—Not A Symptom of SLE
Heal Blog (blog)
In terms of demographics, Lupus is diagnosed more commonly among African-Americans and Asians. The cause of SLE is still unknown but some studies have linked it to the presence of Lupus Antibodies. For the past decades, many physicians believe that ...
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Heal Blog (blog)
Sporting Kansas City Weekly Update: August 31, 2011
WIBW
92 in the latest FIFA rankings, are currently in third place in Group G entering the penultimate group stage match beforetravelling to group leaders South Africa on October 7th. Bunbury will join the United States Men's National Team for the first time ...
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Sisters of truth
Boston Globe
As three of the world's most potent and distinctive vocalists, the triumvirate has joined forces in “Sing the Truth,'' a show created to pay tribute to three late, legendary predecessors: South African singer Miriam Makeba, jazz singer-songwriter Abbey ...
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Boston Globe
Libya, Sri Lanka and Responsibility to Protect (R2P)
Groundviews
Photographer: Victor Sokolowicz/Bloomberg via Getty Images Libya is the model of the new interventionism and is the latest, successful mode of application of the doctrine of R2P says Paddy Ashdown, writing in The Times. “… ...
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Groundviews
Italian Drug Firm Rottapharm Hits Auction Block
Wall Street Journal
Most of the company's revenue comes from countries outside Italy, including Germany, others parts of Europe and South Africa and India. While private-equity activity has been quieted in recent years by the aftershocks of the global financial crisis, ...
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Former white supremacist found personal reasons to change
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Latest entries from local columnist Eugene Kane's blog, Raising Kane. When I asked for help from readers to better understand why neo-Nazis wanted to demonstrate for white civil rights in West Allis this weekend, Arno Michaels responded. ...
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Abuja bombings: Single source or unholy alliance?
Daily Sun
One of those purported to be founders of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), businessman and weapons merchant, Henry Oka is in fact still standing trial in SouthAfrica on charges of being complicit in that outrage. ...
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Status of Seized Vessels and Crews in Somalia, Gulf of Aden & Indian Ocean
Salem-News.Com
August 2011 at 21h15 UTC, at least 33 larger plus 18 smaller foreign vessels plus one stranded barge are kept in Somali hands against the will of their owners, while at least 558 hostages or captives - including a South-African yachting couple as well ...
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Salem-News.Com
Notorious Timon de Pao bilks Posh Century City Hotel
Informante
Former Walvis Bay resident and convicted fraudster, Timon de Pao, is currently in custody of the South African Police in Milnerton in Cape Town, following his recent arrest for bilking the posh Manhattan Suites in Century City. ...
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County reflects state decline in child well-being index
Marion County Record
Kansas Action for Children, a child advocacy organization, reported Kansas has slipped from 13th to 19th in the latest rankings of child well-being published in the 2011 KIDS COUNT Data Book compiled annually by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. ...
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Hogg Robinson Group PLC : HRG Hotel Survey shows increasing global hotel rates
4-traders (press release)
Growth would have been higher had cities in Africa and Eastern Europe not reported year on year decreases over the last six months. "Yet again our survey indicates how important it is for clients to keep control of their hotel programmes and drive ...
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With a little help from my friends
Wine Magazine
The good news for those of us on the Southern Tip of Africa is that the Reading researchers report that the health benefits aren't limited to the French stuff, but are also found in Cap Classique. Of course the aforementioned novels were written in an ...
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New Data Points to Persistent Pipeline Problems in the Legal Profession
PR Newswire (press release)
African Americans are the best represented minority group at 4.7 percent, but their entry into the profession has slowed in recent years. Minority and women's representation among law graduates has dropped slightly in recent years. ...
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Hong Kong worries about China's tightening grip
Philippine Star
The uproar is the latest clash of cultures between the controlling, authoritarian government in Beijing and Hong Kong, the financial center and former British colony returned to China's control but allowed to keep its capitalism, civil liberties and ...
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New season: Bay Area art galleries Fine Arts
Bay Area Reporter
The exhibition features photographs of Wall Street cityscapes, celebrity rock musicians and writers with an emphasis on the Beats, artistic nudes, recent collages and the radical sex community. While on assignment, Gatewood met William S. Burroughs, ...
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Fedusa disappionted at GDP
Citizen
The latest economic growth rate of 1.3 percent in the second quarter falls far short of what is needed to create jobs, the Federation of Unions of SA (Fedusa) said on Wednesday. JOHANNESBURG - The latest economic growth rate of 1.3 percent in the ...
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Obama's fight: Bad polls hold promise
Washington Post (blog)
And he won't get reelected if he doesn't inspire his disillusioned base of African Americans, labor, young and first-time voters to return to the polls. But some of the recent polls have glimmers of hope that Obama can win many of these folks, ...
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State of iOS in NZ - Rugby, gripes and designs
New Zealand Herald
It's available in English, French - and Spanish, An alternative appears to come from South Africa: Rugby 2011 World Cup costs $1.29. It has an interactive calendar and match schedule, countdown to kick-off, latest news, team performance updates and ...
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The imperialist leopard hasn't changed its spots
Party for Socialism and Liberation
Some elements of the corporate media, emboldened by recent developments, are no longer concerned with pretense. The First World War (1914-1918) was, until that time, the bloodiest military conflict in history. Seventeen million people died and another ...
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Party for Socialism and Liberation
EMERGING MARKETS-Stocks rally further after grim month
Reuters
Asian stocks mainly closed higher while in emerging Europe, Russia gained 1 percent helped by oil prices as well as forecast-beating corporate results, the latest of which was oil firm LUKOIL's 64 percent rise in second quarter profits. ...
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Visiting minister's over E17m stolen
Times of Swaziland
The lost money, which sources said was kept in a bag inside the minister's room, is reported to amount to $2.5 million, which is E17.5 million if calculated at the latestexchange rate. Sources said the money disappeared between Monday night and ...
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Times of Swaziland
Streetcars Help Fuel Job Growth in Seattle
Cincinnati CityBeat
After all, this is the same man who once alleged that a proposal to create a regional water district — which backers said would've reduced water rates — might allow city officials to pump polluted water or diseases like syphilis into African-American ...
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HRC Already Has The Perfect Candidate, So Why Aren't They Considering Her?
The New Civil Rights Movement
Another plus that is of inestimable value, as a person from the South, Woolard has a strong network of African-​American colleagues and friends, having worked with people of color throughout her career. As an elected official in Atlanta, she has worked ...
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The New Civil Rights Movement
Brown-Forman's CEO Discusses Q1 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Seeking Alpha
Jack Daniel's RTDs performed very well for the quarter due to gains in Germany and Mexico, as well as geographic expansion of various expressions in the US, Poland, South Africa and Japan. Let me spend a little time talking about Jack Daniel's ...
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Wine collectors' cellar
Wine Magazine
The last one they hosted themselves was over the World Cup, when they did a food-and-wine pairing of Spanish, Mexican, French, German, Italian and traditional South African styles. Unfortunately Sean and Anne don't get to the Western Cape regularly but ...
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