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Friday, February 27, 2015 - 06:38
More than 1,300 young Somali men have been jailed in prisons abroad for piracy since 2005. Most have been sentenced to life in jail.
Friday, February 27, 2015 - 06:27
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf paid emotional tribute Thursday to the American people for their help in battling Ebola and vowed her country would now get back on its feet.
Friday, February 27, 2015 - 06:22
The $1.3 billion that the United States government has spent since 2005 encouraging Africans to avoid AIDS by practicing abstinence and fidelity did not measurably change sexual behavior and was largely wasted, according to a study presented on the last day of an AIDS conference here.
Thursday, February 26, 2015 - 06:56
The reign of terror by Uganda's once brutal rebel group, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), could be drawing towards an end after it suffered mass desertions, a leading rights group has said.
Thursday, February 26, 2015 - 06:56
Special teams from the Chilean Army and Navy have been deployed throughout the country with a goal of intervening in 22 mined areas and destroying 19,000 terrestrial explosives in 2015.
Thursday, February 26, 2015 - 06:53
Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, whose administration once backed the Taliban in Afghanistan, said Kabul must share power with the extremist group and block Indian influence if it wishes to see peace.
Thursday, February 26, 2015 - 06:53
Agents of the Office of Customs and Border Protection, confiscated this morning 2.3 tonnes of Marijuana in a sophisticated narco tunnel located in the city of Naco, Arizona, 355 kilometres north east of the Sonora Capital.
Thursday, February 26, 2015 - 06:47
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto proposed a reform on Tuesday that would authorize foreign immigration and customs agents to carry arms while in the country, an issue that has long been a source of friction with the United States.
Thursday, February 26, 2015 - 06:45
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) expresses its deep concern over the situation regarding the rule of law in Venezuela and its consequences for the full observance of human rights.
Thursday, February 26, 2015 - 06:43
The annual 'Flintlock' counter-terrorism exercises are a decade-old US-sponsored initiative to bolster African nations' ability to fight militant groups operating in the vast ungoverned spaces of the Sahara with training.