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Cancer Risk High as Smoking Surges in Africa

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Cape Town :: South Africa | updated Tue Nov 24 03:50:06 -0800 2009 | health-news

Medical experts say tobacco-related illnesses are becoming a serious health issue in Africa as a new report warns tobacco use may double in some parts of the continent during the next 12 years. The report, from the Global Smokefree Partnership,...

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Egypt Begins Registration of 1st Arabic Language Internet Domains

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Fakoos :: Egypt | updated Tue Nov 24 08:13:01 -0800 2009 | technology-news

Egypt says it has begun registration for the first Arabic language Internet domain. The move is part of efforts to let users of non-Latin script have better access to the Web. The new domain name will be "dot.msr" (pronounced either...

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What Ahmadinejad is doing in Brazil?

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Cairo :: Egypt | updated Tue Nov 24 08:28:44 -0800 2009 | political-news

What Ahmadinejad is doing in Brazil? Is it challenging America? Does it say it through this visit, I'm not isolated from the world? This question has important Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will arrive in Brasilia on Monday, seeking support for...

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HIV/AIDS Commitments to Women Often Unmet

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Cape Town :: South Africa | updated Mon Nov 23 17:16:02 -0800 2009 | health-news

AIDS Accountability International scorecard rates country responses to pandemic HIV/AIDS is the leading cause of death and disease for women of reproductive age, according to health officials. A new report says much needs to be done to reverse that trend....

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Turkey between the Islamist and secular

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Cairo :: Egypt | updated Tue Nov 24 06:09:07 -0800 2009 | political-news

They are telling us as Ottomans new .. Yes, we are the new Ottomans ".. the words made by the firm for the first time, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmed Daoud Ihsanoglu during a meeting with party members in the camp"...

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Considered as being in the coma, it was in fact awake but paralyzed!!!!...

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Nouakchott :: Mauritania | updated Tue Nov 24 09:59:55 -0800 2009 | health-news

For 23 years its doctors have believed in the coma. But, tells the patient belgian, it was in fact awake, but unable to communicate because imprisoned in a body totally paralyzed. Nurses move a sick bedridden in a hospital in...

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President Boutafliqa Congratulates President Al-Bashir on Sudan ...

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Khartoum :: Sudan | updated Tue Nov 24 07:28:20 -0800 2009 | sports-news

Khartoum- President of the Republic, Field Marshal Omer Al-Bashir, has received a cable from the Algerian President, Abdul-Aziz Boutafliqa, in which he expressed his thanks to the government and people of Sudan for the hospitality that they accorded to the...

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Cameroon Traditional Rulers Join Voices to Combat Climate Change

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Bamenda :: Cameroon | updated Tue Nov 24 02:57:06 -0800 2009 | green-news

An association known as Cameroon Traditional Rulers Against Climate Change has launched its activities in Bamenda-Cameroon. Speaking at the official launching a fortnight ago, His Royal Highness, Fon Gwan Mbahyamsiq, the pioneer President disclosed that traditional rulers are a brainpower...

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Forest Plants in Kenya Grown for Traditional Medicines

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Nairobi :: Kenya | updated Tue Nov 24 08:13:33 -0800 2009 | green-news

Forest Plants in Kenya Grown for Traditional Medicines Kakamega Forest in Western Kenya one of country's last remaining stands Kakamega Forest is one of Kenya's last remaining virgin forests, containing many trees and plants that have curative properties. To protect...

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Are you afraid the U.S. from Iranian missiles?

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Cairo :: Egypt | updated Tue Nov 24 06:17:45 -0800 2009 | political-news

Are you afraid the U.S. from Iranian missiles? Question presents itself. Every day, statements referring to this and confirm this fact. U.S. ambassador to Russia warns of the danger of Iranian missiles, he says: We continue to believe that Iran's...

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