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An unmanned Russian rocket carrying three navigation satellites has crashed shortly after lift-off from the Russian-leased Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan, spilling its highly toxic propellant. Russian state-run television Rossiya-24 showed footage on Tuesday of the Proton-M booster rocket veering …

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At least 19 people, including children, died when a MI-8 helicopter crashed in the nearly impassable taiga in eastern Siberia, an aviation committee has said. The Moscow-based committee, citing the surviving crew, said on Tuesday 19 of the 28 people …

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CAIRO – Opponents of Egypt’s Mohamed Morsi poured onto the streets of Cairo on Tuesday to press their demand that he step down after the Islamist president snubbed an ultimatum from the army to agree to the “people’s demands” or …

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MTHATHA – A South African court on Tuesday ordered the return of the remains of three of Nelson Mandela’s children to his ancestral village, following a bitter family feud linked to the eventual burial site of the ailing anti-apartheid hero. …

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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope John Paul II has cleared the final obstacle before being made a saint, awaiting just the final approval from Pope Francis and a date for the ceremony that could come as soon as Dec. 8, …

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MTHATHA (AFP) – Lawyers for Nelson Mandela’s relatives met Monday to try to resolve a bitter family feud over the eventual burial site of the critically ill anti-apartheid hero. Legal teams met all day in the southern city of Mthatha …

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STOCKHOLM (AFP) – Three feminist activists from the radical protest group Femen staged a topless protest inside a Stockholm mosque on Saturday before they were led away by police. The women burst into the mosque and tore off their black …

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SOWETO – US President Barack Obama told Africa’s youth Saturday that the future of the continent was in their hands and urged them to use Nelson Mandela as a model for political leadership. Obama got a rowdy welcome as he …

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Mugabe says to retire not at instigation of West Harare – Zimbabwe’s veteran President Robert Mugabe says he has plans to retire in future but not at the instigation of the West. He said that his 33-years in power had …

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TOKYO (AFP) – A suspected knifeman who attacked three elementary school children in broad daylight on a Tokyo street was being held by police on Friday after a rare incidence of violence in low-crime Japan, reports said. The three children …

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