Reuters - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has
called for an end to racial and religious tensions between
Africa's mainly Arab north and its largely black sub-Saharan
region, saying they could cause conflict.
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Ugandan leader urges harmony at Afro-Arab meeting (Reuters)
Posted: March 13th, 2008, 11:07am EDT
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Pakistan protests after US strike kills four civilians (AFP)
Posted: March 13th, 2008, 10:59am EDT
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AFP - Pakistan lodged a protest with coalition forces in Afghanistan on Thursday after two Pakistani women and two children were killed by US fire from across the border, the army said.
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Wilkinson axe ridiculous, says Newcastle rugby chief (AFP)
Posted: March 13th, 2008, 10:51am EDT
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AFP - England's decision to drop Jonny Wilkinson for Saturday's Six Nations clash with Ireland has been branded "ridiculous" by Steve Bates, director of rugby at the flyhalf's club Newcastle.
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Car bomb kills 18 in Baghdad (AP)
Posted: March 13th, 2008, 10:37am EDT
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AP - A parked car bomb exploded in a commercial district of central Baghdad Thursday, killing 18 people and wounding dozens more.
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Archbishop kidnapped in Iraq found dead (AP)
Posted: March 13th, 2008, 9:31am EDT
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AP - The body of a Chaldean Catholic archbishop kidnapped in Iraq last month was found just outside the northern city of Mosul, officials said Thursday. -
Gaza girls in Israel for heart surgery (AP)
Posted: March 13th, 2008, 7:51am EDT
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AP - Israeli and Palestinian heart surgeons teamed up Wednesday to operate on three young girls from the Gaza Strip under a program to save children's lives despite hostilities between the Hamas-ruled territory and the Jewish state.
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41 Taliban killed in south Afghanistan (AP)
Posted: March 13th, 2008, 6:30am EDT
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AP - Afghan and international forces killed 41 Taliban militants in a battle in southern Afghanistan, and a suicide car bomb attack on a convoy of U.S. troops left six Afghan civilians dead in Kabul, U.S. and Afghan officials said Thursday.
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Indian police arrest Tibetan exiles (AP)
Posted: March 13th, 2008, 5:24am EDT
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AP - Police detained more than 100 Tibetan exiles as they marched to their homeland Thursday in protest of China's hosting of the Olympic Games, charging them with threatening the "peace and tranquility" of the region, officials said.
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Australia probes bungled Indian doctor terror case (AFP)
Posted: March 13th, 2008, 4:21am EDT
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AFP - Australia ordered a judicial inquiry Thursday into the bungled case against an Indian doctor arrested over failed bomb attacks in Britain last year.
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Juvenile suspects face trial at Gitmo (AP)
Posted: March 13th, 2008, 4:01am EDT
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AP - An Afghan detainee who was captured as a teenager railed in court against the U.S. military's tribunal system and said he will boycott his trial, telling the judge: "Don't bother me anymore."