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U.N. agency to hold special meeting over food prices

(CNN) -- Concerned with the recent outbreak of riots over food prices in the African nation of Mozambique, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced Saturday it will hold a special meeting this month to discuss rising wheat prices. FAO officials, food experts and...

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6 killed, dozens injured in Darfur camp clashes, UN says

(CNN) -- Six people were killed and 33 were injured in apparent clashes at a displaced persons camp in Sudan's Darfur region on Saturday, days after another...

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Turkey urged to help keep Iran in check

Ankara: US President Barack Obama's top military adviser, Navy Admiral Mike Mullen, urged Turkey to help ensure Iran doesn't gain the capacity to make atomic weapons and to extend the period of its commands in Afghanistan. "The mutual goal of Iran not achieving a nuclear-weapons capability, that we completely agree on, we just need to reinforce," Mullen, the chairman...

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Time is now for Middle East peace

Washington: US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday sought to inject urgency into Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, warning the negotiations...

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Crash of cargo plane after return to UAE airspace

Dubai: One of the ill-fated UPS plane's black boxes has been found by the authorities, who also said on Saturday that the plane had left the UAE's airspace before entering it again and crashing. The UPS Boeing 747-400 cargo aircraft that crashed in Dubai on Friday faced technical difficulties while in Bahrain's airspace before turning back towards Dubai and crashing at a sensitive military site in the Nad Al Sheba Military Camp. The cockpit voice recorder...

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Ill-fated aircraft tried to land before it crashed

Dubai: Preliminary investigation results into the United Parcel Service (UPS) cargo plane crash suggest the pilots may have twice tried but failed to land during the hour prior to the crash. The ill-fated Boeing 747-400 cargo plane bound for Cologne from Dubai took off at 7pm on Friday and crashed about an hour later in a military camp located between Emirates Road and Al Ain highway. Sometime during the reported sequence of two "missed approaches" to the airport, the pilot...

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 ANC slow in addressing inequality: Numsa

Workers continue to believe in the ANC government despite it being slow in addressing inequality and injustice, said National Union of Metalworkers' of SA (Numsa) president Cedric Gcine on Saturday. "Our ANC government is not moving swiftly enough to address inequality and injustices. It has been more than two years after...

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Amavubi Stars Can Do It

Rwanda's national football team, Amavubi...

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National Football Team Lose to Uganda

The Angolan national senior males...

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Egypt spy chief’s presidency campaign shortlived

Cairo: Activists launched last week a poster campaign backing Egypt's intelligence chief General Omar Sulaiman for the 2011 presidency, a move to head off an ongoing campaign for President Hosni Mubarak's son as the next leader. But within hours of plastering posters on bridges and walls of Cairo's streets, online coverage of the Sulaiman campaign was halted with no explanation, a move one publishing expert attributed to official efforts to prevent the campaign spreading. Talk that Jamal Mubarak, 46, could succeed his...

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