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Counts in the gun-fair death of an eight-year-old child:3 persons ...

Durban :: South Africa | about 4 hours ago | Conflict & Tragedy

Posted by aarana

Bizilj, of Connecticut, lost control of the 9mm micro submachine gun as it recoiled while he was firing at a pumpkin on October 26 at a Firearms Expo in Massachusetts. Three men, including a small-town police chief, were indicted on...

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Three found guily of Bali drug run

Bali :: Cameroon | about 8 hours ago | Conflict & Tragedy

Source: The Courier-Mail

Shaode Cao, 21, Francis Vui Jun Lee, 25, and Alice Yun Hsuan Yang, 22, each pleaded not guilty to conspiring to import prohibited goods into Australia. The Brisbane Supreme Court was told each travelled to Bali twice in 2004 after...

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Sudan?s Kiir vows not to accept ?unreasonable? census results

Khartoum :: Sudan | about 9 hours ago | Conflict & Tragedy

Source: Sudan Tribune

The Sudanese First Vice-President and the head of southern Sudan government Salva Kiir warned that he will not accept census results that appear unreasonable. The fifth Sudan Population and Housing Census, a milestone in the implementation of the 2005 Comprehensive...

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Darfur: six aid workers assaulted near government checkpoint

Khartoum :: Sudan | about 11 hours ago | Conflict & Tragedy

Source: Sudan Tribune

After passing two government checkpoints on the short drive between Nyala town and Kalma camp for displaced persons, a convoy of six aid workers in three vehicles was stopped, robbed and beaten by two gunmen on Thursday morning. Three out...

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Zimbabwe declares national health emergency

Harare :: Zimbabwe | 1 day ago | Conflict & Tragedy

Posted by kalex

HARARE, Zimbabwe – Zimbabwe has declared a national emergency over a cholera epidemic and health care system collapse, and is seeking more international help to pay for food, drugs and hospital equipment, the state-run newspaper said Thursday. "Our central hospitals...

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Deceptive calm on DRC front line

Brazzaville :: Congo | 1 day ago | Conflict & Tragedy

Source: News 24

Just a few hundred metres of scorched earth separate the army and the rebels near Kibati in the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) volatile east, where hundreds cross the front line daily. The area north of Goma, the provincial capital...

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Sudan rejects war crimes allegations

Khartoum :: Sudan | 1 day ago | Conflict & Tragedy

Source: Press TV

I have no regrets," Haroun said in an interview published by Britain's The Guardian newspaper. He said what he did was legal, and his responsibility, "It was my duty...The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant for Haroun's arrest in...

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Moroccan convicted of Madrid link

Rabat :: Morocco | about 23 hours ago | Conflict & Tragedy

Source: BBC

A Moroccan man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for links to the group that carried out the 2004 Madrid bombings, killing 191 people. Hicham Ahmidan was convicted for what the prosecution called providing logistical support to the...

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More than 100 child's "child witch killer" arrested :Nigeria.

Awka :: Nigeria | about 23 hours ago | Conflict & Tragedy

Posted by aarana

Child rights campaigners say children are frequently abandoned, hideously injured and even murdered because their families believe they are witches. Mr Ulup-Aya was arrested in Akwa Ibom State after a child rights campaigner led police to his church and negotiated...

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2 foreigners reportedly kidnapped off Nigeria

Lagos :: Nigeria | 1 day ago | Conflict & Tragedy

Source: Merced Sun-Star

A private security official says unknown gunmen have attacked an oil-services vessel off Nigeria's coast and kidnapped two foreign and one local worker. The official says the attack took place early Thursday about 12 miles (19 kilometers) from the coast...

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