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Chad Johnson Released From Jail
FORT LAUDERDALE (CBSMiami) - In a little over a year, former NFL receiver Chad Johnson has gone from a member of the Miami Dolphins to an inmate in Broward County. Johnson was taken into custody Monday morning during a court appearance after a judge decided he had violated his probation that stemmed from a domestic violence incident with his then-wife Evelyn Lozada in ...
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Africa U.S. Ambassador Rices Message On International Day Against Homophobia
Today, as we commemorate International Day Against Homophobia, we rededicate ourselves to a basic but essential truth - that human rights are universal and must be protected for all. Homophobia, sadly, is present in every corner of our world. And, it is a problem we continue to face here in the United States. At the United Nations, the United States is standing up for the rights of lesbian, ...
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Rural Cameroon suffers from lack of telecommunications structure
Without access to mobile phone networks or radio broadcasts, villagers in the Ngolo tribal areas of Cameroon say that the government has forgotten them. The government has ambitious plans for development by 2035. But telecommunications projects are slow to take hold in the country's most rural ...
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Anthony Bourdain on food porn Libya and his move to CNN
Anthony Bourdain gets to travel around the world having adventures and eating great food his new network, CNN, has already ordered another season of "Parts Unknown." (Peter Kramer) Anthony Bourdain gets to travel around the world having adventures and eating great food - his new network, CNN, has already ordered another season of "Parts Unknown." Back in New York, Bourdain ...
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Zimbabwe mining chamber criticizes minerals proposals
A conveyor belt carries ore extracted at Mimosa Platinum mine about 400km south of Harare, Feb. 16, 2012. Zimbabwe's mining chamber said tighter proposed state control over the sale of minerals would hit Anglo American Platinum and Impala Platinum Holdings Ltd., slow down foreign investment and stunt growth in the industry. (PHILIMON ...
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Kenya Ruto fights back on luxury jet claims
Vistajet , the successful bidder, as well as those of Lady Lori Kenya Ltd, and ABM Aviation, with the last two charging slightly more money for the flights. Earlier, media reports had claimed that the Deputy President had used the plane which had been hired in a one-year contract that would cost the country at least Sh100 million. Quotations showed ...
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Kenya Residents issue ultimatum to KWS over rogue lions
lions that have left residents counting losses. About 10 cows and 15 goats from the village situated along the Mara escarpment, which overlooks the game reserve, have been killed. ...
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Kenya Report reveals half of inmates are minors
The Committee, which reported the findings after touring prisons at the Coast, observed provisions of the Children Act prohibited the incarceration of minors in the same facility with adults. POMAC officials now want to ...
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Kenya Disease wipes out 1000 animals
Pastoralists in the area have been left on their own as the Government finds it challenging to curb the spread of the disease owing to their nomadic way of life. Veterinary officials in the area led by District Veterinary officer Mr Micah Kabon, said they have carried tests on the affected goats and discovered the disease ...
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Kenya Court gets tight security after lawyer stabbed by client
Iten, Kenya: Security in and outside Iten law courts in Elgeyo/Marakwet County has been beefed up following Friday incident where an advocate was stabbed by a former client inside ...
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Kenya Road agency sets August date to complete city ring roads
The construction, being implemented through a flagship project under the Enablers and Macro Sector of the Kenya Vision 2030, will be completed on August 15. The missing link roads identified and prioritised through Nairobi Urban Transport Master Plan connects Waiyaki Way at Westlands roundabout, Lantana Road and Riverside drive to Ngong Road through Mandera Road (Kileleshwa police station). It ...
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African Coins Found in Australia Thought to Be 1000 Years Old
A new inquiry into how several ancient coins came to be found on the continent of Australia could offer new insights into the migrations patterns of early ...
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Nigeria military seizes Islamist areas
NIGERIA'S military says it has re-established control in five remote areas of the northeast where Islamist insurgents had seized territory. It is involved in a sweeping offensive against Boko Haram militants. Several thousand troops were last week deployed across three states in the volatile region and fighter jets have pounded Boko Haram camps as the military tries to rid the country of ...
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US Sees Climate of Intolerance on Global Religious Freedom
The United States said the right to global religious freedom was challenged last year, with governments often creating a "climate of intolerance" leading to hatred and violence. In an annual report, the State Department said Monday government officials worldwide are often allowed to act with impunity while violating the religious rights of their countrymen. It said there often is ...
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Ugandan Police Shut Down Newspaper Offices
NAIROBI -- Police in Uganda's capital have closed down the offices of the Daily Monitor. According to the Daily Monitor's senior correspondent, police have declared the premises of their publication a crime scene and are doing a thorough search of the building. Earlier this month, the Daily Monitor published a series of stories about Uganda's coordinator of intelligence ...
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Russian Billionaire Lebedev Pleads Not Guilty in Court
MOSCOW -- Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev has pleaded not guilty to charges of hooliganism motivated by political hatred. Lebedev says that he is being targeted by Russian President Vladimir Putin because Putin believes he is funding the opposition. Alexander Lebedev, co-owner of Novaya Gazeta, Russia's leading opposition newspaper, went on trial Monday in a Moscow court. Lebedev ...
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Indias Weak Congress Ponders Early Elections
NEW DELHI -- India's Congress party is debating holding a general election in November, six months ahead of schedule, senior party leaders said, reflecting an internal discussion over whether to pull the plug on the shaky ruling coalition or have it serve a full term. Officially, the Congress party says the government - which has been battered by a series of corruption scandals and now ...
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Deadly Tornadoes Tear Through US Midwest
Zach Champion walks through the rubble of his mobile home looking for his belongings, in the Steelman Estates Mobile Home Park, destroyed in Sunday's tornado, near Shawnee, Oklahoma, May 20, ...
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Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples to Seek Action on Africa Youth Health Education Culture as Twelfth Session Opens at Headquarters 20 May
More than 2,000 indigenous participants from all regions of the world are expected to attend the twelfth session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at New York Headquarters from 20 to 31 May, where members will engage with indigenous peoples, Member States and agencies of the world ...
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DR Congo UN voices concern as fighting resumes between Government and M23 forces
Print 20 May 2013 – The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) today voiced its concern about renewed clashes between rebels from the 23 March Movement (M23) and the national armed forces in the eastern city of Goma. Fighting broke out early this morning in Kibati and Rusayo, some 12 kilometres from Goma, the capital of North Kivu province, ...
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Kenya Nduku The untold story of my dream life with Mutula
Nduku Musau and a workmate took notice of the smartly dressed lawyer, always in a blue or black suit with an office in Atlas House on Moi Avenue, across the road from what used to be the US ...
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Kenya Encounter with MRC top brass
But nothing had prepared me for my first meeting with the top brass of the group. "How many are you in the car. Do you have a policeman with you?" a man who refused to introduce himself asked as soon as I picked my phone on my third day of the investigation. If there was time when I wanted a source to call me for a story, this was it. I had been expecting the call for more than 48 ...
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Kenya Senate advised to work closely with county assemblies
Senate and various levels of Government during a senators' retreat in Mombasa over the weekend. CIC chairman Charles Nyachae among other speakers addressed participants. Prof Wanyande said in playing an oversight role in the counties, ...
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Kenya FBI find terror suspects DNA in toothbrush
Mombasa, Kenya: A toothbrush found in a bag containing ammunition has the DNA of the sole suspect in the terrorist attack on a nightclub in Mombasa, an FBI detective told a court ...
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Clashes in DR Congo ahead of Ban visit
REBELS from the M23 movement and the army are fighting north of Goma just two days before UN chief Ban Ki-moon is due to visit the troubled eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The volatile mineral-rich region was rocked by hours of fierce fighting with mortars and rocket launchers in the first clashes involving M23 since December. The rebels briefly occupied the regional capital of Goma in ...
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Nigeria calling on US for misconception help
Nigeria is one of the main producers of drug lords and immigrants and is beset by political instability and groans under the weight of poverty and human strife. At least, this is the perception many in the world have, a perception that is all too narrow in its scope.
Nigeria has an enduring reputation as an exporter of criminals, drug lords, terrorists and immigrants. Such perceptions are only amplified by the recent attempted bombing of a US-bound plane on Christmas Day by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian, or the arrests every year of various Nigerian drug lords in countries around the world. Read more
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