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Kenyan teen saves family’s livestock from lions with simple invention

By Nadine Kalinauskas | Good News A Kenyan teen’s invention, “Lion Lights,” helps protect his family’s livestock from lions — and earned him an invitation to speak at this week’s TED conference. Richard Turere, 13, was raised on the edge … read more »

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California man confirms role in anti-Islam film that sparked deadly Libya violence

The search for those behind the provocative, anti-Muslim film implicated in violent protests in Egypt and Libya led Wednesday to a California Coptic Christian convicted of financial crimes who acknowledged his role in managing and providing logistics for the production. … read more »

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Eggs from beautiful Eastern Europeans, sperm from wealthy Westerners and embryos implanted in desperate women

Above a cheap mobile phone shop in a chaotic street in north Delhi, there is a grimy apartment whose peeling walls are decorated with photographs of adoring mothers nursing their babies. The woman cooing at her child in the biggest … read more »

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Where the Sahara Meets the Sea: Mauritania

by Geoff Weiss, Travel Writer and Andrea Papitto, Producer, Essakane Film Although considered off the beaten path for many world travelers, the Saharan nation of Mauritania has much to offer adventuresome visitors who are open to its cultural complexities, historic … read more »

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America’s Sheriffs Fight Barack Obama And Federal Government

By Dr. Eowyn Something extraordinary and historic took place mere days ago in Las Vegas, Nevada. For three days, from January 29 and 31, 2012, in the Tuscany Hotel & Casino, more than 120 county sheriffs, from across the United … read more »

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Equatorial Guinea leader’s son fights to keep U.S. assets

The son of the leader of Equatorial Guinea asked a court to dismiss attempts by the Obama administration to seize some $71 million worth of his assets, denying charges that they were obtained with allegedly corrupt funds taken from his … read more »

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US Patent Office Grants COPAN Invention of Flocked Swabs

MURRIETA, California, December 22, 2011/PRNewswire via African Press Organization (APO)/ — The US Patent Office has awarded COPAN the much awaited patent for its flocked swabs invention for collection and transfer of biological samples. This grant, deriving from a very … read more »

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Eight Killed In US Hair Salon Shooting

Eight people have been killed and one is critically injured after a gunman opened fire in a packed hairdresser’s in California. The shooter reportedly had several weapons and was wearing body armour, although this has not been confirmed. Police said … read more »

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Man Arrested For Taking Bite Out Of Python

A man is in custody in California after being accused of biting a python in what police said was an apparently unprovoked attack on a pet snake. The man said he could not remember what he had done as he … read more »

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Ethiopia – In search of a common ground

How to manage and resolve conflict has always been our Achilles Heel. That is part of the reason why we stumble from one crisis to another. Last week was a perfect example of an attempt to try to find out … read more »

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How could any granny of 83 risk her life for bigger breasts?

My granddaughter Sadie has a wry and perceptive outlook on life; particularly for a four-year-old. I was skipping along the pavement with her the other day when she paused to remark: ‘Grandma, you’re like a little child in an old … read more »

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Egypt’s Mubarak refusing to eat

California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law on Monday a bill allowing illegal immigrants to receive privately funded scholarships to attend the state’s public colleges and universities. The bill, dubbed the California Dream Act, passed the state Legislature earlier this … read more »

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NPP hypocrisy; how the party imposed judicial Facism on Ghanaians

In the 2000 elections many voted the New Patriotic Party (NPP) not because of the believe in the party’s Danquah/Busia historical traditions, but because we shared the party’s underlining principles of democracy in freedom. The NPP used to be the … read more »

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Cal State Professor Running For Office In Nigeria Arrested

HAYWARD, Calif. — A professor at Cal State East Bay was released from prison Tuesday after being arrested in his native Nigeria where he had returned to run for a governorship. Steven Ugbah’s wife Stevina Evuleocha said her husband called … read more »

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Tsunami waves smash U.S. west coast – Exclusive Images

Four swept out to sea in California One man feared dead as Coast Guard suspend search Crescent City harbour ‘pretty much completely destroyed’ U.S. government is taking the situation ‘very seriously’ Millions of dollars worth of damage were caused as … read more »

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Kenya issues tsunami alert

Nairobi – Kenya’s meteorological department issued a tsunami alert on Friday to residents of the country’s coastal region but said waves reaching the Indian Ocean coast would be weak. The department said waves triggered by a powerful earthquake in Japan … read more »

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Lindsay Lohan charged with felony grand theft

Lindsay Lohan pleaded not guilty to felony grand theft of a $2,500 necklace — a case that could return the troubled starlet to jail rather than the big screen. She entered the plea Wednesday through her attorney. Superior Court Judge … read more »

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Lindsay Lohan moves next door to lesbian ex-lover

Lindsay Lohan completed her 90-day stint at the Betty Ford Center yesterday, and she’s already found a new home. According to Us Weekly, the troubled starlet is moving into a fancy four-bedroom beach house in Venice Beach, Calif. – and … read more »

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