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The Zimbabwean president has cracked jokes and chuckled at rumours that he is near death’s door.
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Nigerian police are searching for dozens of prisoners who escaped when gunmen attacked a jail.
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A German container vessel has been freed after a standoff between Somali pirates and naval forces.
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The UN has launched a campaign to restore Zimbabwe’s schools to their former glory.
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The leader of the Swaziland Youth Congress was briefly detained during a march in Manzini.
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The Zimbabwean government wants a line of credit from South Africa to revive its economy.
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When Irini Ibrahim, a young Coptic Christian woman, floated the idea of divorce from a husband she said was abusing her, her parents immediately opposed it. So she entered "reconciliation sessions" with her husband. In April, the priest anointed Ibrahim and Kands with sacred oil, pronouncing their union healed.
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A UN report has accused Rwandan forces of committing war crimes in the neighbouring DRC.
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Nigerian prison authorities have been caught in a fierce gun battle with suspected Islamist fighters.
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Armed security officers were out in full force during a march by democracy campaigners in Swaziland.
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BP sought to spread the blame for the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster on Wednesday, setting off a battle of oil-industry giants.
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United States President Barack Obama joined leaders of the world's biggest Muslim nations in a chorus of outrage at a plan to burn the Qur'an.
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Afghanistan will limit foreign involvement in two major anti-crime units in a move likely to worry its Western backers.
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Thousands of Aids patients in India are not receiving treatment on time, underscoring huge challenges the country faces as it combats the syndrome.
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Nine years after the September 11 2001 attacks, five men accused of plotting the devastating strikes remain in a legal black hole.
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Fidel Castro has accused Iran's President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, of anti-Semitism in a passionate defence of Israel's right to exist.
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A pastor insisted his plans for a mass torching of the Qur'an would go ahead after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemned the ceremony.
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In January, gunmen kidnapped, tortured and shot dead Mexican reporter Valetin Valdes before dumping his body outside a motel.
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Australia's newly elected Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, pledged to serve a full term after scraping back into power.
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A United States missile strike on a militant compound in Pakistan's tribal district on the Afghan border killed six rebels on Wednesday.
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