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Formal arraignment set for Franklin Park couple accused of abusing Ethiopia adoptees

By Paula Reed Ward A Franklin Park couple accused of abusing their two adopted children from Ethiopia has waived their preliminary hearing, which was scheduled for Friday in Leetsdale. Douglas and Kristen Barbour are charged with starving a 6-year-old boy … read more »

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‘Time running out for Zimbabwe vote’

Johannesburg – Zimbabwe is well behind schedule with vital reforms needed to ensure a credible and violence-free election that would pick a successor to its troubled power-sharing government, Human Rights Watch warned on Thursday. The global rights body said repressive … read more »

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Zimbabwe: Mugabe Reiterates Elections to Be Held March Next Year

By Tichaona Sibanda, SW Radio Africa (London) President Robert Mugabe on Monday insisted elections to choose a new government will be held in March next year, despite fears the country is not yet ready for another poll. Addressing delegates to … read more »

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Revolutionary Democracy Starves: Starvation in Southern Ethiopia

Addis Fortune The confusing politics that ruling party officials abide by is exposing thousands of farmers and their children to starvation in southern Ethiopia, observes this writer whose identity Fortune withholds upon request. It is ironic why the Revolutionary Democrats … read more »

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Malian journalist released

Dakar – A Malian journalist missing for two weeks emerged on Friday, telling AFP he had been held by the state security service and freed earlier this week, but stayed silent until now to protect his family. Babi Ahbi, editor … read more »

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Mali-Burkina border clashes killed 30

Ouagadougou – The governor of the northern region of Burkina Faso says at least 30 people from the Peul ethnic group have been killed, and about 1 000 displaced, in ethnic clashes on the border with Mali, a nation whose … read more »

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Dozens killed in Mali counter-coup attempt

Soldiers from Mali’s ruling junta have overrun the main presidential guard barracks in the capital Bamako, which has been the scene of heavy fighting. It has dealt a serious blow to troops loyal to the ousted government, who have been … read more »

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African refugees march for human rights in Tel- Aviv

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