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NOAA forecasts active or extremely active 2013 hurricane season
The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration issued a forecast Thursday for an active or extremely active 2013 Atlantic hurricane season. NOAA's Climate Prediction Center, in its hurricane season outlook, forecast a 70 percent likelihood of 13 to 20 named storms (winds of 39 mph or higher) -- of which seven to 11 could become hurricanes (winds of 74 mph or higher), including ...
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US officials meet the Libya Contact Group at historic time
US officials meet the Libya Contact Group at historic time Libya-USA, Politics, 8/26/2011 US Deputy Secretary of State William J. Burns led the U.S. delegation to the August 25 Libya Contact Group meeting in Istanbul, where representatives from 28 countries, the UN, EU, NATO, AU, OIC, Arab League and GCC came together to demonstrate the international community's firm commitment to ...
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Ghana to begin GMO Testing
Although the politicians in Ghana’s parliament have done their bit and have allowed Monsanto lobbyists and scientists influenced by this corporate giant to pass the Bio-Safety Bill in Ghana, that does not stop conscientious objectors from continuing to point out the gross error these politicians in parliament have ...
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World Briefing | Africa Congo U.N. Leader on Peace Mission
The United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, arriving just hours after a rebel group halted fighting to allow his visit to proceed, said Thursday that security must go hand in hand with development in the Democratic Republic of ...
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Jodi Arias Jury Fails to Reach Decision on Death Penalty
An Arizona jury tasked with determining whether convicted killer Jodi Arias should be put to death for the brutal murder of an ex-boyfriend failed to reach a unanimous verdict on Thursday, and a judge ordered a retrial in the penalty phase. Arias, 32, was found guilty earlier this month in the murder of Travis Alexander, whose body was found slumped in the shower of his Phoenix-area home in ...
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Kenya asks UN to terminate ICC crimes against humanity cases against president and VP
Kenya on Thursday got a chilly reception to its appeal to the U.N. Security Council to "terminate" International Criminal Court cases against the president and deputy president for planning and financing Kenya's 2007-08 postelection violence in which more than 1,000 people died and 600,000 were evicted from their homes. President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto ...
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Kenya Crisis talks at Kitale Governors office as ghost of tribalism rears its ugly head
County Governors office with a ghost of tribalism and doubtful documents rocking the recruitment of officials. According to documents to weekly citizen,it is alleged that theTransitional Authority in charge of deployment Mr. Makori working under Kinuthia Wamwangi ...
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Kenya Executive Cabinet Nominees represent the face of Kisumu County says Elders
nomination have invariably reflected and represented the faces of the entire County. The Forum Chairman Walter Adel Kitoto said the nominated candidates have the academic qualifications and technical skills required to implement the county's development agenda. "The nominees have wide, long and solid working experiences and commitment in their respective dockets," said Kitoto. ...
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Kenya to Venture in Sports Tourism
By Thomas Ochieng API Kenya 21/5/2013 Kenya is in pursuit of harnessing sport tourism and the honor of underscoring this initiative has been bestowed on the Sotokoto Safari Marathon. The ...
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UPDATE 2-One dead about 10 injured in Guinea opposition protest
Thu May 23, 2013 7:07pm EDT * Protest against June election plans turns violent * Opposition says president plans to rig the poll * Election meant to complete transition to civilian rule By Saliou Samb CONAKRY, May 23 (Reuters) - One person was killed and about were 10 injured when security forces and supporters of Guinea's president clashed with protesters marching in the capital on ...
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UN troops in DR Congo within months
UN chief Ban Ki-moon has pledged that UN troops will be in place within "one or two months" to battle armed rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo's volatile east, as he toured the flashpoint city of Goma. Ban's visit on Thursday came after three days of sometimes deadly fighting between rebels and government forces that ended a precarious calm spell in the mineral-rich east ...
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US Forecasters Predict Busy Atlantic Hurricane Season
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday there is a 70 percent chance that 13 to 20 named storms will form in the Atlantic Ocean this season. It says as many as 11 of them could strengthen into hurricanes -- storms with winds of 119 kilometers per hour or higher. The forecasters say they cannot predict if any of those storms will strike land. NOAA says warmer than ...
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Forcast Above-Average Storm Activity Likely During 2013 Atlantic Hurricane Season
The 2013 Atlantic Hurricane season could be busier and deadlier than average, according to predictions released Thursday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or NOAA. The six-month seasonal outlook for Atlantic storms will be above average says Jerry Bell, lead Atlantic hurricane forecaster with NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center. "The outlook is calling for 13 ...
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And now Africa rises to unite in prosperity
Kwame Nkrumah, the first prime minister of Ghana, envisioned an Africa united by necessity. Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi made a half-hearted attempt at subverting traditionalism to have himself crowned the continent's king of kings. And, when the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) was constituted in 1963, several of the founders considered stronger ties between themselves as a ...
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Lesotho chieftainship for men only
In a case brought by Senate Masupha, the first-born female child of a chief, Lesotho's Constitutional Court has reiterated that daughters cannot succeed their fathers to become chiefs. The court said last week that not allowing daughters to inherit the role, based on Lesotho's customary law, was not discrimination and therefore not unconstitutional. "It is our view that ...
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Refugees sending wrong signal
, Rwandan high commissioner Vincent Karega said Rwanda was classified as a "post-conflict, safe country, not a country in transition or crisis" and that, in accordance with the "thorough assessment" of the country by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the country was intent on securing the return of its refugees. He said: "Staying in foreign ...
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Rwandan exiles dread going home
Virginie* was 19 when the killing started in Rwanda in 1994. She had left her boarding school in Butare to go home for the holidays. "For a short time, for three or four days, I didn't think I would be going cross border to cross border," she says of her forced journey that began after people started "disappearing" and bodies started piling up in the streets. The ...
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Alaska Rep. Don Young gone hunting in Africa misses subcommittee oil hearing
WASHINGTON - When a key House of Representatives panel took up a bill this week that would require annual lease sales and streamline permitting in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, home state Rep. Don Young missed the session. He was on a big-game hunting safari in South Africa.Aides said Thursday that Young, a 21st-term Fort Yukon Republican who is Alaska’s sole representative in ...
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Soil Atlas of Africa created to help farmers land managers
International experts say they've created a Soil Atlas of Africa to help farmers, land managers and policymakers understand soil's diversity and importance. Despite its importance, most people in Africa lack knowledge about soil, partly because most information tends to be limited to publications read only by scientists, said researchers at the at the land resource management unit of ...
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Music Review Emel Mathlouthi at the French Institutes Tunisia Festival
The Tunisian singer Emel Mathlouthi, a gentle firebrand whose song ...
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Syrias Civil War Fuels Violence in Iraq
Ominous ties are emerging between skyrocketing sectarian violence in Iraq and Syria's civil war. Analysts say al-Qaida-linked militants are flowing back and forth from both countries and are seeking to use religious differences to bring down the government, not only in Damascus, but also in Baghdad. Iraqis are witnessing the worst violence to rock their country in five years. Bombings ...
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Moore Oklahoma Holds First Funeral of Tornado Victim
Moore, Oklahoma held the first funeral for a victim of Monday's monster tornado -- a nine year-old girl killed when the storm tore apart her elementary ...
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Africa Tempts High-Tech Companies
Multinational high-tech companies looking for new frontiers and fresh ideas are lining up for a slice of Africa’s relatively untapped consumer market. Many experts are saying the continent is poised to be the next hotbed of technological innovation. Others are even more ...
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African Progress Panel Urges Leaders to Exploit Resources
ADDIS ABABA -- As the African Union celebrates the 50th anniversary of its founding, a group of respected leaders and activists led by former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is urging African leaders to maximize the continent’s natural resource potential. The African Progress Panel ...
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Volunteers Help Revive LAs Concrete River
LOS ANGELES -- The Los Angeles River is a concrete drainage channel through much of its 80-kilometer length. It channels waste-water from storm drains and has become a receptacle for much of the city's trash. But, the river is slowly being restored to its natural state with the help of volunteers, who take part in an annual clean-up. Thousands of volunteers turned out on a recent weekend ...
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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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