AFP - The European Union will on Monday launch a peacekeeping force for Chad and the Central African Republic, diplomats and officials said Friday.
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EU to launch Chad peacekeeping force Monday: diplomats (AFP)
Posted: January 25th, 2008, 3:30pm EST
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Musharraf vows free elections during visit to Britain (AFP)
Posted: January 25th, 2008, 3:24pm EST
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AFP - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on Friday challenged anyone to prove how February 18 parliamentary elections could be rigged and vowed they would be held on time.
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Killer expelled from Swedish med school (AP)
Posted: January 25th, 2008, 3:15pm EST
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AP - A medical student convicted in a 1999 murder with neo-Nazi links has been expelled from Sweden's leading medical school in a case that sparked debate over whether a killer can become a doctor after having paid his debt to society. -
Musharraf champions rights, but only with limits (Reuters)
Posted: January 25th, 2008, 3:07pm EST
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Reuters - Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf cast
himself as a champion of human rights and free expression on
Friday -- then turned on a journalist who questioned him and
said rights should have limits.
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With Federer gone, 2 new guys in final (AP)
Posted: January 25th, 2008, 2:56pm EST
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AP - One Australian Open finalist is a Muhammad Ali lookalike who has dazzled the crowds with his enthusiasm and his ability to change the pace of a match.
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Marriages fall victim to Kenya violence (AP)
Posted: January 25th, 2008, 2:12pm EST
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AP - He doesn't call. He doesn't write. His cell phone has been switched off for weeks. After 17 years, Naomi Kering's husband is gone one more intertribal marriage fallen victim to the violence that has followed Kenya's disastrous presidential election.
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Spanish driver who killed teen sues (AP)
Posted: January 25th, 2008, 2:10pm EST
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AP - A speeding motorist who killed a teenage cyclist is suing the boy's parents over damage to his luxury car, the government says. -
Egypt takes steps to close Gaza border (AP)
Posted: January 25th, 2008, 11:59am EST
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AP - Thousands of Palestinians pushed their way into Egypt past human chains of guards with riot shields after a bulldozer wrecked another section of fence along the Egypt-Gaza border.
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Plea in Venezuela cash suitcase scheme (AP)
Posted: January 25th, 2008, 11:55am EST
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AP - A Venezuelan man pleaded guilty Friday in a scheme to cover up the source of $800,000 seized in a suitcase in Argentina that was allegedly sent by Venezuelans as a donation to Cristina Fernandez's presidential campaign. -
Last German WWI veteran dies at 107 (AP)
Posted: January 25th, 2008, 11:55am EST
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AP - It was an American, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, who famously reflected that "old soldiers never die; they just fade away."
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Bad weather ends Bangladesh Islamic meet (AFP)
Posted: January 25th, 2008, 11:50am EST
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AFP - Two million people scrambled to leave a huge Muslim congregation near the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka late Friday after bad weather forced its premature end, police said.
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Beirut bomb kills anti-terror officer (AP)
Posted: January 25th, 2008, 11:02am EST
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AP - A car bomb Friday killed one of Lebanon's top terrorism investigators who was probing assassinations of prominent anti-Syrian figures and a series of other attacks in recent years.
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Iraq announces major offensive in Mosul (AP)
Posted: January 25th, 2008, 10:58am EST
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AP - Shaken by two days of deadly bombings, the government said Friday it would dispatch several thousand more security forces to Mosul in a "decisive" bid to drive al-Qaida in Iraq from its last major stronghold.
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Italy president to decide on early vote (AP)
Posted: January 25th, 2008, 10:53am EST
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AP - Discussions Friday between the Italian president and political leaders could determine if the country will face early elections or an interim government following the resignation of Premier Romano Prodi.
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Zimbabwe sets March 29 vote, opposition cries foul (Reuters)
Posted: January 25th, 2008, 10:34am EST
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Reuters - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said
on Friday general elections would be held on March 29 and the
opposition said the date was a blow to mediation efforts to end
the country's economic and political turmoil.
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Gates gives Forum optimism (AP)
Posted: January 25th, 2008, 7:29am EST
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AP - Microsoft chairman Bill Gates announced Friday at the World Economic Forum that his foundation would give $306 million to use green technology and farming techniques to boost millions out of hunger and poverty.
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Egypt cheers films critical of police (AP)
Posted: January 25th, 2008, 3:43am EST
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AP - One of Egypt's latest hit films opens with scenes of police brutally beating pro-democracy protesters and ends with angry masses storming a police station where demonstrators are tortured. The audiences cheer.