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Latest Mega Moolah Jackpot - €3.8 Million!
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Hope grows in Mogadishu despite Somali militants' display of bodies
Toronto Star
In Daynile, a suburb about 15 kilometres northwest of Mogadishu and the latest front line in the battle against Al Shabab militants, soldiers with the African Union peacekeeping mission came under fire Friday as they pushed further into Shabab ...
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The Help: the latest guilt-edged Hollywood history lesson
The Guardian
... the nearest recent equivalent of The Help? Between Daisy and The Help, there has been something of a revolution in both the depiction of black lives and African-American history in movies and on TV, and the consequent elevation of writers, ...
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The Guardian
Africa without Qaddafi: The Case of Chad
International Crisis Group
Africa without Qaddafi: The Case of Chad , the latest report from the International Crisis Group, warns that those potential new problems created by the upheavals related to Qaddafi's demise include a massive flight home of migrants, the possible ...
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Plan to stanch flow of 'conflict minerals' from Congo causes turmoil
Globe and Mail
The campaign began as an idealistic effort to halt a horrific epidemic of rape and murder in the heart of Africa. It burgeoned into a powerful consumer movement, culminating in a planned US regulation that is terrifying some of the world's biggest ...
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Globe and Mail
McDonald's profit rises as same-store sales grow
MarketWatch
For the latest period, global same-store sales rose 5%. Same-store sales climbed 4.4% in the US In Europe, same-store sales rose 4.9%, growth the company said was aided in part by restaurant modernizations. The Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa ...
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This is Africa's time: Speakers declare at launch of Vodafone ABLF
Myjoyonline.com
Economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa is set to maintain pace in 2012, supported by higher commodity prices and rising export demand, the IMF'slatest forecast for the region said. In many of Africa's low-income countries, growth is also being boosted ...
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Myjoyonline.com
The End Of History
Just International
Where is the money going to come from to finance Washington's African Empire? Not from Libya's oil. Big chunks of that have been promised to the French and British for providing cover for Washington's latest war of naked aggression. ...
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Pizza mogul Herman Cain, the unlikely Republican presidential frontrunner
FRANCE 24
Prominent political analyst Ron Faucheux called Cain's latest debate performance “unconvincing and superficial”, while top newspapers have lately been awash with stories detailing recent gaffes – particularly Cain's statement during an interview with ...
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FRANCE 24
Kings Langley star Little claims previous titles led to latest win
Watford Observer
Little will travel to South Africa next month for the Alfred Dunhill Championship and the South African Open. He is currently in the European Ryder Cup side and Little sees no reason why he cannot challenge for another win in his remaining three starts ...
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Conspiracy of silence
National Post
Donna Laframboise, Financial Post · Oct. 22, 2011 | Last Updated: Oct. 22, 2011 5:07 AM ET Next month, thousands of bureaucrats, politicians, media, activists and scientists will travel to Durban, South Africa, for the latest round of UN climate talks. ...
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Rugby World Cup a lottery amid refereeing chaos
The Conversation
In the South Africa-Australia quarter-final that Australia somehow survived, southern hemisphere referee Bryce Lawrence rewarded South Africa, the attacking side, with a penalty for wheeling the Australian scrum through 90 degrees. ...
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The Conversation
Gaddafi Is Latest African "Big Man" To Fall
U.S. News & World Report
But while the death of Gaddafi was at least partly the result of outside intervention, it is domestic pressure from Africa's increasingly demanding city-dwellers that is forcing the pace of wider political change on the continent. Recent African ...
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SA, Equatorial Guinea strengthen trade
BuaNews Online (press release)
South Africa will offer its expertise to Equatorial Guinea, which is scheduled to host the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations together with Gabon. Zuma said he and Mbasogo also discussed recent developments in Africa and in particular the death of Libyan ...
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'The Global Unconventional Gas Market Will Reach $75.2bn in 2011', Says ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Visiongain's latest report, The Unconventional Gas Market 2011-2021: Shale Gas, Tight Gas, CBM & Methane Hydrate predict significant growth across the 4 main types of unconventional gas: Shale Gas, Tight Gas, Coalbed Methane & Methane Hydrate. ...
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Surprise! The Tea Party Is Making the GOP More Diverse
The Atlantic
In a recent NBC News/Marist poll, he led the second-place finisher, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, by 4 points. Among voters identifying themselves as tea partiers, Cain's lead grew to 9 points. The latest example of the tea party boosting a...
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Making the most of your nest egg
gulfnews.com
And the latest fall in recent months in stock markets (the FTSE has fallen approximately 15 per cent since May) has in turn boosted government bonds (Gilts), which has driven up the cost of buying a retirement income (annuity) with the pension funds. ...
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gulfnews.com
Shepard Fairey: Rebel With A Cause
Neon Tommy
The graphic artist's latest icon was an invitation to The Occupation Party, at which thousands of anti-Wall Street protesters rallied in New York's Times Square on October 15. Fairey called out to the "Awake and Inspired" to join the masses that would ...
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Neon Tommy
NYPD case puts spotlight on stop-and-frisk policy
Thomson Reuters News & Insight
In August, US District Judge Shira Scheindlin ruled that the latest suit -- a putative class-action lawsuit brought by two African-American men who said they were illegally targeted by police -- could proceed to trial. (Reporting by Jessica Dye) New ...
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Thomson Reuters News & Insight
Growing Tensions Between Romney, Perry in Republican Race
Voice of America
The battle for the party nomination has taken a personal turn in recent days between two of the top contenders, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and Texas Governor Rick Perry. Tensions between the Romney and Perry camps have been building for ...
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Going viral
The Australian
Sixteen years ago the film Outbreak, inspired by the Ebola virus, used the concept of a virus emanating from Africa and turned it into a thriller; Soderbergh's film covers similar territory but is much more grounded: less a conventional thriller than ...
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1 Promising Stock You Shouldn't Miss
Motley Fool
Aimed at building one of the world's largest chemical facilities, the venture will target markets such as China and Africa for the products that are expected to be churned out from the new facility in 2015. Great going indeed! ...
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Severe depression goes largely untreated in the United States, according to ...
New York Daily News
Eleven percent of Americans age 12 and older are taking antidepressant medication, a slight uptick over a 2009 survey that showed 10.1 percent, according to the latest data from the National Center for Health Statistics. Overall, there has been a 400 ...
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New York Daily News
Construction Booms In Ruined Mogadishu As Displaced Return
Coastweek
UNITED NATIONS (Xinhua) -- The Somalis currently have a rare opportunity to advance peace in the Horn of Africa country and establish a fully functioning government, the UN envoy to Somalia said here on Friday. The peace process has taken a “great leap ...
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Coastweek
Russian FM Sergei Lavrov's interview to Russian radio stations including the ...
The Voice of Russia
What are your thoughts on Russia's current position in Northern Africa? Why do we continue to miss our opportunities in this region with every passing year despite the fact that the region is very favorable for us. I don't think so. ...
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The Voice of Russia
Exploring JIMS, Gauteng with GM
The Financial Gazette
During the course of this visit to JIMS, I was also afforded the opportunity to sample thelatest iteration of Isuzu's KB twin cab in conditions ranging from the urban jungle to flowing open roads. Regular readers will know that I am sceptical about ...
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'Occupy Wall Street' goes global
Malaysia Star
Inspired by these movements, rallies rippled across the globe last weekend targeting 951 cities in Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and North and South America to take part in the demonstration. It's unclear how long protestors plan to stay. ...
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Jordan summit can inspire search for more open growth models
gulfnews.com
The three-day summit, which concludes tomorrow, has attracted more than 1000 participants amid political upheaval in the wider Middle East and North Africa, a gloomy economic outlook for the US as well as Europe's ongoing sovereign debt crisis, ...
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gulfnews.com
Research In Motion needs coherent strategy
Financial Times
The blackout affected services across Europe, the Middle East and Africa and eventually spread to North and South America, with many users taking to social networking sites including Facebook and Twitter to vent their anger. While consumers have been ...
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Schlumberger Limited's CEO Discusses Q3 2011 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Seeking Alpha
Well Services also had a strong performances on land in the US, as well as in Latin America and the Europe/CIS/Africa areas. Reservoir Production pretax margin improved 1 percentage point to 21%, primarily on Well Services increases in Canada and ...
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Mobile gambling could be reason to sell used phones
Mazuma Mobile
A number of recent events linked to the rise of smartphones are behind the widespread appeal of gambling via a mobile. "The first was the introduction of the iPhone in Europe in 2008/2009 and the second was the 2010 [football] World Cup in South Africa ...
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High School Changes: No Math Or English, But Vocations
Ashland Current
The latest forum was in a Madison research park and included realtors, builders, health executives and a dairy group. At least two speakers called for a regulatory conformity. Gov. Walker says this could stabilize the business climate, but what matters ...
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Where now for Europe and its people?
Irish Times
The era of western dominance and supposed civilisational superiority does not accord with an emerging multipolar world reflecting the “rise of the rest” – China, India, Brazil, Russia, South Africa and their regions. It is a painful adjustment for the ...
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Can Eminent Domain Be as Bad as Slavery?
The Atlantic
New London is today's Dred Scott case I suppose it's better than a hand gesture, but Justice Scalia's latest off-the-bench, off-the-cuff pronouncement is distinctly erratic. Speaking Tuesday at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, Scalia had some acerbic ...
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Mark Hughes: Everyone of United's players understands what the club is about ...
Daily Mail
He questions Mancini's 'autocratic' style and suggests it might not necessarily have helped matters in the mess that is the latest Carlos Tevez affair. A situation he says would never have arisen had he still been in charge. But does he consider City ...
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Daily Mail
The second destruction of the–HMS Aboukir
Royal Gazette
The looting of archaeological sites on land will undoubtedly continue apace, as rich and poor alike take part in the finding and marketing of artefacts, particularly from prehistoric contexts in arenas such as South America and West Africa. ...
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Commodity traders: The trillion dollar club
Reuters
With their connections and inside knowledge -- commodities markets are mostly free of insider-trading restrictions -- trading houses have become power brokers, especially in fast-developing Asia, Latin America andAfrica. ...
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Reuters
COMMODITY TRADERS-the trillion dollar club
Reuters
With their connections and inside knowledge -- commodities markets are mostly free of insider-trading restrictions -- trading houses have become power brokers, especially in fast-developing Asia, Latin America and Africa. ...
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New Documents Reveal Previously Undisclosed Rendition Flights
The Public Record
Reprieve charges that “data focusing on Lithuania, but linked to suspected CIA activity in a raft of other countries in Europe, North America, the Middle East and North Africa, has been identified by Reprieve investigators and passed to the Lithuanian ...
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The Public Record
More Reflections On The Eritrean Opposition
Awate
What Eritreans are experiencing, the argument goes, is business-as-usual in Eritrea and for that matter in the entire continent of Africa. The Eritrean people have not seen better days; injustice, oppression and hardship have been part of their normal ...
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Daily Mail, London, market report column
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
Buyers piled into shares of coal mining and development company Coal Of Africa, sending them up to 60p before they closed 5.75p better at 55.25p. Demand followed long-awaited news that the suspension of the Integrated Water Use Licence for the Vele...
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The Scoop for Friday, October 21, 2011
Nashua Telegraph
He got to combine work and pleasure for his new role as D'Artagnan in the latest sword-swinging take on “The Three Musketeers,” based on the Alexandre Dumas novel. “There were things I saw in those films that I liked,” Lerman says. ...
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COMMODITY TRADERS: The trillion dollar club
Fox Business
Together with Glencore, it pre-qualified to bid for exploration rights in Iraq in a licensing round next year that that could add the Iraqi upstream to its offshore West Africaoperations. Its early dealings with the Libyan rebels may offer the chance ...
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Talk therapy
Ottawa Citizen
The latest films or the hippest restaurants? The changing fortunes of the Senators? Or the surreptitious hunt for a new partner with longer legs or better biceps and fewer wrinkles? The first step toward seeking help is the realization the ennui cannot ...
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Central bankers need to update their outdated analytical toolkit - Fullermoney
Proactive Investors UK
In many of the developing economies like South America, Africa and parts of Asia the young population is motivated to achieve a better standard of living. They have the demographics and economic cycle on their side. The Chinese, while having a young ...
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