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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — An Ethiopian court on Thursday convicted 26 people who were accused of taking part in an alleged coup plot earlier this year and acquitted five others.
Ethiopian rebels have launched a wide offensive in the southeastern Somali ethnic Ogaden region and recaptured seven towns from government forces, they claimed Saturday in a statement.
The National Multiple Sclerosis Society recently awarded $720,000 in research grants to Dr. John Corboy at the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine for the Rocky Mountain MS Center Tissue Bank; and Dr. Jeffrey Bennett, also at UC Denver, for his work in identifying immune-system activity.
Federal authorities say a massive investigation into the disappearances of about 20 young Somali men from Minnesota has taken a significant step forward with a seventh arrest in the case.
ARTS ARENA "We Live in Public" is about you and me and the dark side of social networking By Jim Walsh | Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 Ondi Timoner's film "We Live in Public" is as important a piece of cultural history as has come down the pike in the last 10 years.
The Esther Bone Memorial Library will offer a workshop on international adoption on Saturday at 10 a.m. Don Fox, the regional office director, for Great Wall China Adoption, will present an overview on how to adopt a child from another country.
A 24-year-old St. Anthony man faces terrorism-related charges in the federal investigation into the departures of young Somali men who left Minnesota to fight with a terror group in Somalia, according to an indictment unsealed Thursday.
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Almost 200 million children under the age of five in the developing world suffer from stunted growth, according to a new U.N. report. But surprisingly, in the Middle East, wealthier countries have more of a problem than some poorer nations.
Greetings all. A congressional report connects Michelle Rhee to unsavory personal accusations involving her now-fiance, Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson . KJ has been accused of sexual misconduct with young women, and Examiner columnist Byron York writes that Rhee , while serving on the board of Johnson's St. Hope nonprofit, 'learned of the allegations and played the role of a fixer, doing "damage ...
About 90 percent of Ethiopian Jews marry within their community, according to a new report. The report by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics, which was released Sunday, found that 93 percent of Ethiopian men and 85 percent of Ethiopian women marry other Ethiopians.
We are right at the midway point of Survivor: Samoa. We began with twenty players; we now have ten. Our early villains, Evil Russell, and...
The spokesman for Somalia's militant al-Shabab group in Kismayo says members of the Ethiopia-based rebel group, Ogaden National Liberation Front, are fighting alongside one of the factions of al-Shabab's former Islamist ally, Hizbul Islam, in the south of the country.
TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Nov. 20, 2009) - The Honourable Beverley J. Oda, Minister of International Cooperation, today unveiled the Canadian International Development Agency's Children and Youth Strategy, one of CIDA's three thematic priorities. "Focusing on Children and Youth, our government will help the children living in poverty today become resourceful, engaged and productive adults ...
by Richard Norton-Taylor The high court today flatly rejected claims by David Miliband , the foreign secretary, that releasing evidence of the CIA 's inhuman and unlawful treatment of UK resident Binyam Mohamed would harm Britain's relations with the US by giving away intelligence secrets. Evidence that the foreign secretary also wants to suppress is believed to reveal what British intelligence ...
TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Nov. 20, 2009) - The Micronutrient Initiative , a Canadian non-profit organization working to improve global nutrition through vitamins and minerals, received a $150 million boost to its programming from the Government of Canada through the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) today. "We are grateful and encouraged by today's announcement that Canada ...
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