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I recently returned from some wonderful, eye-opening, and unforgettable experiences in India and Ethiopia. In my previous blog I talked about the incredible energy at...
A leading Ethiopian newspaper said Friday it had closed down as a result of months of government "persecution and harassment" against its staff.
The old adage, think globally and act locally, should be heeded in discussing solutions to climate change.
TAIPEI, Taiwan----The Taiwan External Trade Development Council , a premier trade promotion organization, will lead a delegation consisting of 30 Taiwanese companies to visit Algeria, Morocco and Ethiopia from 5th to 17th December.
The 1987 Monroe-Woodbury graduate was a CIA operative killed in Ethiopia in 2003, By Bill Lemanski
NEW YORK, USA, 4 December 2009 – The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the ground-breaking human rights covenant that codifies rights for all children, everywhere, marked its 20th anniversary on 20 November. The milestone was commemorated with events across the globe.
Marathoners know boredom. Las Vegas doesn't -- especially along the ever-changing, always-open, neon-lighted Las Vegas Strip. This year, organizers of the first Rock 'n' Roll Las Vegas Marathon are adding music and promotional muscle to a race that will send competitors up Las Vegas Boulevard at dawn on Sunday.
Ever read a piece of food writing that made you so hungry you had to experience that same food as soon as possible? That happened when we read our friend Carolyn Alburger's thoughtful pro...
Two days after a suicide bomb blast ripped through a graduation ceremony in Mogadishu, even the most resilient in war-torn Somalia expressed outrage on Saturday at the growing price paid by civilians.
A few months after arriving from Sierra Leone, Alie Kabba learned the dynamics of Chicago immigrant life when he found a pickup soccer game near his Rogers Park apartment. All of the players were Mexicans.
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Somali Islamist Shebab rebels Friday denied in a statement any involvement in a suicide bombing that left some 19 people, including three ministers, dead at a medical student graduation ceremony.
As of Friday, Dec. 4, 2009, at least 852 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Friday at 10 a.m. EST.
'You can't ask for a much better match-up than that. It should be fun.' U.S. star Landon Donovan says.
You don't have to be a Halliburton to succeed in the Middle East," says Jeffrey Ornstein, CEO of J/Brice Design, which has established itself as an international hotel-design powerhouse through its growing presence in the region.
Not many military leaders understood the fighting man as well as British Gen. William Slim.
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