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A focused mission in Africa
Kansas City Star
Washington has training missions under way in several African countries. The latestmove is different in that it isn't confined to the borders of any one country. Moreover, it involves a specific military objective: Help find Joseph Kony, leader of the ...
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Africa Set for Steady Growth, With Threat of Faster Inflation
International Monetary Fund
By Teresa Trasino Economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa is set to maintain pace in 2012, supported by higher commodity prices and rising export demand, the IMF's latestforecast for the region said. In many of Africa's low-income countries, ...
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A focused mission in Africa
Sacramento Bee
Washington has training missions under way in several African countries. The latestmove is different in that it isn't confined to the borders of any one country. Moreover, it involves a specific military objective: Help find Joseph Kony, leader of the ...
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Africa on course to cut maternal deaths
Daily Nation
The latest PAP resolution combines integrated implementation of African maternal, newborn and child frameworks with the United Nations Secretary-General`s Global Strategy for Women and Children's Health, launched in 2010 to accelerate progress toward ...
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Feature: African farmers are desperate for change
Myjoyonline.com
To make use of the latest available technological developments is, therefore, of paramount importance. To counter food shortages, farmers need to derive the maximum possible yield from their farms. Worldwide, alfalfa (lucerne) is grown mainly as a food ...
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Malaria-vaccine trials raise hope of eradicating deadly disease
Globe and Mail
Researchers have been working for more than 20 years to develop thelatest malaria vaccine, known as RTS,S. More than $500-million has been invested in the project. “Sadly, many people have resigned themselves to malaria being a fact of life in Africa ...
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Globe and Mail
Microblogging: The Latest Challenge for China's Censors
Heritage.org (blog)
The crackdown began in mid-February following protests in the Middle East and North Africa and the appearance of online calls for 'Jasmine' protests in China.” • Chinese officials continued to restrict free expression, including criticism of the ...
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Heritage.org (blog)
Local African American Leaders Weigh In On The GOP Debate
CBS 47
"It would show a maturity of our country that we have not seen, to actually see twoAfrican American presidential candidates I think it would speak a lot of where we have come," said Tate Hill, Fresno Metro Black Chamber. A recent census shows African ...
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Yemen: UN human rights office condemns latest killing of unarmed protesters
UN News Centre
The United Nations human rights office today strongly condemned the reported killing of a number of largely peaceful protesters in Yemen inrecent days, and urged that those responsible for the death of hundreds of people since the protest movement ...
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UN News Centre
'I'm the President'
Wall Street Journal
"Stick together, black people," says Joyner, whose R&B morning show reaches one in four African American adults. The Rev. Al Sharpton, an ally of President Obama who has a daily radio show and hosts a nightly cable television program, recently told the ...
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Wall Street Journal
Iran raps false US backing of democracy
Press TV
He pointed to the recent developments in the Middle East and NorthAfrica and added that the US has adopted double-standard policies on Yemen and Bahrain, IRNA reported. The top Iranian parliamentarian also stated that Tehran attaches great ...
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Santos snubs JJ
The Bostwana Gazette
National team striker, Jerome Ramatlhakwane's disastrous stay in Cape Town has been worsened by news that the player's name does not appear in the latest player registration list from the South African Premier Soccer League. This means that the player ...
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Somalia: Mineral Industry Overview
Afribiz.info
Somalia, which is an East African country located on the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean, produced small quantities of gemstones, granite, marble, niobium (columbium), salt, sandstone, and tantalum in recent years. The mineral industry made a small ...
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Illuminating Africa's most obscure cat
Mongabay.com
When carrying out a study like this one, you find yourself trying to think like your study animal," Laila Bahaa-el-din, University of Kwazulu Natal graduate student, told mongabay.com in a recent interview. Thinking like a wild forest cat has helped ...
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Kansas authors appear in local 'author roundup'
Abilene Recorder Chronicle
Their latest book, “Apron Strings and Family Ties,” shares the account of their parents' lives during the Great Depression, Dirty Thirties and other struggles. “We have 24 authors planning to come,” Johnson said. “I think the public will be amazed at ...
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Why You Should Not Stop Taking Your Vitamins
Huffington Post
That brings us to the latest apparent casualty, vitamins. The recent media hype around vitamins is a classic case of drawing the wrong conclusions from good science. Remember how doctors thought that hormone replacement therapy was the best thing since ...
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Fox Davies Capital Update featuring Aurum Mining, Avocet Mining, Diamondcorp ...
Stockopedia
Coal Of Africa (LON:CZA) Limited (CZA, 49.50p, ▼ 1.98%) announced that the suspension of the Integrated Water Use Licence for the Vele Colliery was lifted by South African Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs following representation made by ...
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Kenya: Why Not Deploy Military to Fight Domestic Crime?
AllAfrica.com
The latest attack, in which gunmen attacked the Daadab refugee camp, seized aid workers and spirited them to Somalia, is particularly worrying. In view of two other attacks in Lamu in which foreigners were targeted by suspected militias from Somalia, ...
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Somalis struggle as aid falls short
News24
Even inside Mogadishu, base of a 9 000-strong African Union force and the weak Western-backed government, recent fighting and security concerns have limited access to desperate people needing food, shelter and medicine. "We are doing are best, ...
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The Roots Of Record Foreclosures
NPR
The latest data from RealtyTrac show a 14 percent rise in first-time default notices between July and September. That marks the first spike in that number in more than a year. And as the housing picture remains cloudy, Americans seem to be letting go ...
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Hunt explains PSL dominance
Football365.co.za
He points instead to United's exclusion from Africa's Champions League as a factor after finishing seventh last term. "Nothing's changed. The training has stayed the same. The difference is we haven't had Champions League football. ...
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The Death of the Kyoto Process
Spiegel Online
The environment ministers and negotiators from roughly 200 countries, who will travel to Durban, South Africa at the end of November for the latestglobal climate conference, are a long way from breathing new life into the Kyoto process. ...
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Spiegel Online
GWEN ANSELL: Jazz
Business Day
Harmonica player (and South African Music Award-winner) Adam Glasser is now becoming a regular visitor to this country. This month, he's here to launch his latestalbum, Mzansi: a series of collaborations with South African players. ...
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Great half-term days out
Telegraph.co.uk
By Joanna Symons When Longleat opened its safari park in 1966, it was the first of its kind outside Africa and it caused quite a stir. Visiting families peered uneasily from their Ford Cortinas and Hillman Imps at the marauding monkeys trying to prise ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
BLACKROCK NEW ENERGY INVESTMENT TRUST PLC - Portfolio Update
Power Engineering Magazine
An apparent disconnect has therefore been created between the sector equities, which no longer discount a scenario of sustained above market growth, and the long term sector macro, which appears to have been improved by recent global events. ...
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Britain signals Maghreb push with anti-terror help
Reuters Africa
Mauritania, a desert state of just over three million which straddles North and sub-Saharan Africa, has sought in recent months to step up the fight against local al Qaeda agents after a spate of attacks on its army and Western expatriates. Continued. ...
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Des McAnuff to Appear in ROCKERS ON BROADWAY Concert, 10/31
Broadway World
Proceeds will benefit The Broadway Dreams Foundation, Broadway in South Africa and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. "Having Des perform with us brings the Rockers on Broadway back to its roots" said Rockers founder Donnie Kehr who staged the first ...
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Who's going to be the world's 7 billionth person?
Washington Post (blog)
Birth rates in places like Africa haven't been falling as expected. Another surprise: wealthier countries like the United States and Britain saw birth rates boom during the housing bubble (although they've fallen again recently). ...
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UK must do more to attract Chinese tourists, says report
CatererSearch
How the Rise in Chinese Tourism will Change the Face of the European Travel Industry is a new report from the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and commissioned by Hilton Hotels & Resorts, which has identified several ...
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Socceroos slip a spot
Sportal.com.au
The Socceroos have held their place in the top 20 of the latest FIFA World Rankings, which were released on Wednesday. Australia dropped one place to 20th despite recording a 3-0 win over Oman in their World Cup qualifier and 5-0 win over Malaysia in a...
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Economic worries cloud IT spending priorities
Computing
Those messages chime with the latest financial figures from technology bellwether IBM. In its most recent financial quarter, IBM reported that spending on business analytics have rocketed 19 per cent year on year. The amount businesses spent on cloud ...
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West Side on alert as rapists remains at large
Chicago Defender
by Kendrick Marshall With a pair of suspects responsible for a string of violent assaults against multiple women still on the loose, West Side youth program coordinator Shaun Kelly is taking every precaution to ensure she doesn't become the latest ...
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US hawks hover over Iran
RT
Somewhat ironically, Bolton also described President Barack Obama'srecent decision to send 100 troops to stem off a humanitarian crisis in Central Africa as “damaging to our efforts to preserve our military budget.” It is little wonder that Iranian ...
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'The Pain and the Itch' review: Third Rail Rep dishes up a feast of laughter...
OregonLive.com
By Marty Hughley, The Oregonian Owen CareyWith a title like "The Pain and the Itch," you might expect a little discomfort in the latest production from Third Rail Rep. But with terrific performances by the likes of Valerie Stevens and Damon Kupper ...
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Reflections on Herman Cain
MinnPost.com (blog)
By Eric Black | Published Tue, Oct 18 2011 2:00 pm REUTERSHerman Cain hopes to be something more than the latest flavor-of-the-month righty challenger to Mitt Romney. Heading into tonight's umpteenth Repub debate (this one is in Vegas, sponsored by CNN ...
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MinnPost.com (blog)
121doc to Prescribe GlaxoSmithKline Medicine to UK Patients
PR Web (press release)
As the UK online healthcare provider 121doc continues to offer new prescription only medications (POM) and Valtrex, a product of pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline, is the latest treatment to be made available to people in the UK via a next day ...
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Swedish journalists, charged with terrorism, on trial in Ethiopia
iWatch News
They were investigating allegations of ongoing human rights abuses in the Ogaden region – a remote stretch of the Horn of Africa, where Ethiopian forces have clashed with the Ogaden National Liberation Front. The journalists entered Ethiopia from ...
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Occupy London: this is what democracy looks like
New Internationalist (blog)
The latest wave of unrest may have started in North Africa, but now it is global – reaching hundreds of cities across the world – more than 1000 by some counts. A statement endorsed and discussed by a significant number of occupations calls ...
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Oil hovers above $86 amid Europe debt plan doubts
BusinessWeek
"Production in the North Sea and West Africa were and continue to be subject to interruptions, while Libyan barrels only slowly return to the market." In other Nymex trading, heating oil lost 0.74 cent to $3.0062 per gallon and gasoline futures fell ...
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Clinton in Libya to offer new aid package
BusinessWeek
Clinton is the latest in a string of senior Western dignitaries to visit Libya in recentweeks -- British Foreign Secretary William Hague was there Monday -- and her arrival came as Libyan fighters celebrated the capture of Bani Walid, one of Gadhafi's ...
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Wits Gold repositions business strategy; targets gold production
Mineweb
Wits Gold has built a substantial geological footprint in the world's premier gold location, South Africa's Witwatersrand Basin, from which we aim to build South Africa's newest shallow gold mine." The second phase of an eleven diamond borehole ...
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Arm takes battering from Apple falling short of forecasts
Evening Standard
Recent speculation that the suspension on Coal of Africa's water-use license at its Vele colliery was about to be lifted proved correct and caused the miner to spurt ahead 14.7% to 56¾p. As a result, the AIM-listed digger said it would be able to ...
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Nigeria naira firms at interbank, forex reserves up
Reuters Africa
Reserves in Africa's top crude exporter did rise sharply to $34.59 billion by Oct. 14, from a multi-year low of $30.86 billion on Oct. 7, the central bank latest figures showed. The reserves were at the same level a year ago. ...
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Regis Urges Shareholders to Vote the Gold Proxy Card and to Disregard the ISS ...
MarketWatch (press release)
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Symantec Survey Finds IT Security Staffing Challenges Hinder Enterprises ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Symantec's recent 2011 State of Security Survey found cyberattacks were the top concern of the organizations surveyed and the importance of these threats has increased for many respondents. Probing deeper into an enterprise's ability to manage these ...
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Coke's 3Q Net Up 8.1% On Volume Growth; Buyback Plan Boosted
Wall Street Journal
Shares of Coca-Cola fell 0.2% in recent trade, to $66.84. The stock is up 1.6% this year. Coca-Cola had been using favorable foreign exchange rates offset rising commodity costs. Chief Financial Officer Gary Fayard expect the two factors to act as a ...
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Sound Research at Acoustical Society Meeting: Acoustical Archeology, Human ...
Newswise (press release)
Newswise — The latest news and discoveries from the science of sound will be featured at the 162nd meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) held October 31 – November 4, 2011, at the Town and Country Hotel in San Diego, Calif. ...
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Turkish market-Overview
Balkans.com Business News
Unlike its developed market peers and even the likes of South Africa this is not a job-less recovery in Turkey. And, presumably those swelling the ranks of the employed, feel more confident over their job prospects and are spending unfortunately much ...
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Neal Dunn: PSA test is a proven lifesaver
Tallahassee Democrat (blog)
In fact, the most recent published study on this issue, the Göteborg Randomized Population-based Prostate Cancer Screening Trial (The Lancet Oncology, July 2010), found that, with screening, deaths from prostate cancer dropped 44 percent over a ...
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RIM Unveils New OS BlackBerry BBX - Update
RTT News
The offer is "an expression of appreciation for their patience during the recent service disruptions," the company had said. Interestingly, BlackBerry's main competitor iPhone'slatest version recorded sales of over four million units last weekend in ...
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