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  • Israeli Olympian Arrested in Ethiopia 24 Jul 2008 18:33 GMT
    ... Israel's entrant for the Olympic marathon has been arrested while visiting his native Ethiopia. Ayele Seteng, who immigrated to Israel from Ethiopia, ... to Israel from Ethiopia, returned to the African state for the final stretch of high-altitude ...

  • China says breaks up international terrorist cell 24 Jul 2008 15:30 GMT
    ... nuclear diplomacy. Reuters UNITED NATIONS - The African Union said on Wednesday it was incapable ... was incapable of stabilizing the situation in Somalia and urged the United Nations take over ... take over peacekeeping operations in the lawless Horn of Africa country. Reuters TOKYO - A strong ...

  • Powerful aftershocks hit China quake area, 1 dead 24 Jul 2008 12:30 GMT
    ... nuclear diplomacy. Reuters UNITED NATIONS - The African Union said on Wednesday it was incapable ... was incapable of stabilizing the situation in Somalia and urged the United Nations take over ... take over peacekeeping operations in the lawless Horn of Africa country. Reuters TOKYO - A strong ...

  • Ethiopia/Kenya: Athletes Fight Over Olympics Slots 24 Jul 2008 04:25 GMT
    ... The Olympic Games don't come around every other year ... of the country's finest women's marathon runners. Ethiopia's national athletics training programme has traditionally been ... Ethiopia's success in women's athletics started with Africa's first track gold medallist, Derartu Tulu, a ...

  • Why dope? Riders don't fear tests, rewards beckon 23 Jul 2008 19:55 GMT
    ... will house broadcasting facilities for the Beijing Olympics, fearing there was a gas leak after ... to travel to Libya, saying the North African nation has been retaliating ever since Swiss ... al-Qaida has taken over as head of Somalia's exiled opposition movement, pushing out a relative moderate ...

  • Karadzic's secret life enthralls his fellow Serbs 23 Jul 2008 19:55 GMT
    ... will house broadcasting facilities for the Beijing Olympics, fearing there was a gas leak after ... to travel to Libya, saying the North African nation has been retaliating ever since Swiss ... al-Qaida has taken over as head of Somalia's exiled opposition movement, pushing out a relative moderate ...

  • Correction: Guantanamo tribunal story 23 Jul 2008 19:55 GMT
    ... will house broadcasting facilities for the Beijing Olympics, fearing there was a gas leak after ... to travel to Libya, saying the North African nation has been retaliating ever since Swiss ... al-Qaida has taken over as head of Somalia's exiled opposition movement, pushing out a relative moderate ...

  • Athletes Fight Over Olympics Slots 23 Jul 2008 07:19 GMT
    ... The Olympic Games don't come around every other year ... of the country's finest women's marathon runners. Ethiopia's national athletics training programme has traditionally been ... Ethiopia's success in women's athletics started with Africa's first track gold medallist, Derartu Tulu, a ...

  • Tyson Gay and Liu Xiang face opposition in gold mission 23 Jul 2008 07:14 GMT
    ... motivation...My expectations are huge going into the Olympics," Gay said after the 100m win at ... glamour factor in the National Stadium and Ethiopian sensation Tirunesh Dibaba to spearhead a proud African tradition in distance running. Jeremy Wariner must ...

  • Nigeria: Athletics Buffs Lament Relay Fiasco 23 Jul 2008 06:14 GMT
    ... list of nations for the Beijing 2008 Olympics, events that led to Nigeria's ouster continues ... the road to disaster began at the African Championships in Ethiopia where the most of country's athletes put up ...

  • East Africa: It Is APR Against Simba 23 Jul 2008 04:52 GMT
    ... We made an error in our lead story of ... Abbas Rassou, who was re-signed from Morocco's Olympic Khouribga is unavailable for the game as ... in the quarters after Awassa City from Ethiopia finished a poorer third behind URA and Rayon. ...

  • Athletics Buffs Lament Relay Fiasco 23 Jul 2008 04:49 GMT
    ... list of nations for the Beijing 2008 Olympics, events that led to Nigeria's ouster continues ... the road to disaster began at the African Championships in Ethiopia where the most of country's athletes put up ...

  • U.S. Olympic team a melting pot 22 Jul 2008 23:32 GMT
    ... finishes the 1,500 meters at the U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials in Eugene in ... boost: in a field that included several African-born stars, all three qualifiers were American-born. In ... better life for themselves.” The family of Eritrean-born distance runner Meb Keflezighi is a prime ...

  • Farah confident he can challenge Africans 22 Jul 2008 21:50 GMT
    ... will be the best prepared at the Olympic Games next month. The Mogadishu-born Briton said: ... for a fact that other countries, like Ethiopia, are not doing as much as we are. ... man trying to mix it with the Africans, and Bernard Lagat, from the United States, ...

  • Palestinian attacks using construction truck 22 Jul 2008 18:31 GMT
    ... year as had been expected. JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) — European Union foreign ministers agreed Tuesday ... links between the blasts and next month's Olympic Games, officials said Tuesday. BILBAO, Spain (AP) ... airstrikes on Taliban militants, officials said. MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Dahir Abdi Salah used to feed ...

  • Cambodia seeks UN intervention in Thai dispute 22 Jul 2008 18:31 GMT
    ... year as had been expected. JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) — European Union foreign ministers agreed Tuesday ... links between the blasts and next month's Olympic Games, officials said Tuesday. BILBAO, Spain (AP) ... airstrikes on Taliban militants, officials said. MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Dahir Abdi Salah used to feed ...

  • US seeks to link bin Laden driver to 9/11 attacks 22 Jul 2008 18:31 GMT
    ... year as had been expected. JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) — European Union foreign ministers agreed Tuesday ... links between the blasts and next month's Olympic Games, officials said Tuesday. BILBAO, Spain (AP) ... airstrikes on Taliban militants, officials said. MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Dahir Abdi Salah used to feed ...

  • Gunmen kill Kurdish journalist in northern Iraq 22 Jul 2008 16:48 GMT
    ... year as had been expected. JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) — European Union foreign ministers agreed Tuesday ... links between the blasts and next month's Olympic Games, officials said Tuesday. BILBAO, Spain (AP) ... airstrikes on Taliban militants, officials said. MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Dahir Abdi Salah used to feed ...

  • Iraqis cast doubt on elections this year 22 Jul 2008 16:48 GMT
    ... year as had been expected. JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) — European Union foreign ministers agreed Tuesday ... links between the blasts and next month's Olympic Games, officials said Tuesday. BILBAO, Spain (AP) ... airstrikes on Taliban militants, officials said. MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Dahir Abdi Salah used to feed ...

  • UN says 14 million in Africa's Horn need food aid 22 Jul 2008 15:31 GMT
    ... links between the blasts and next month's Olympic Games, officials said Tuesday. JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) — European Union foreign ministers agreed Tuesday ... airstrikes on Taliban militants, officials said. MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Dahir Abdi Salah used to feed ...

  • 4 US soldiers charged in detainee deaths in Iraq 22 Jul 2008 15:31 GMT
    ... links between the blasts and next month's Olympic Games, officials said Tuesday. JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) — European Union foreign ministers agreed Tuesday ... airstrikes on Taliban militants, officials said. MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Dahir Abdi Salah used to feed ...

  • Police arrest 9 Basque separatists in Spain 22 Jul 2008 15:31 GMT
    ... links between the blasts and next month's Olympic Games, officials said Tuesday. JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) — European Union foreign ministers agreed Tuesday ... airstrikes on Taliban militants, officials said. MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Dahir Abdi Salah used to feed ...

  • Officials say 5 S. Koreans are abducted in Mexico 22 Jul 2008 15:31 GMT
    ... links between the blasts and next month's Olympic Games, officials said Tuesday. JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) — European Union foreign ministers agreed Tuesday ... airstrikes on Taliban militants, officials said. MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Dahir Abdi Salah used to feed ...

  • Obama: Iraq now needs a political solution 22 Jul 2008 15:31 GMT
    ... links between the blasts and next month's Olympic Games, officials said Tuesday. JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) — European Union foreign ministers agreed Tuesday ... airstrikes on Taliban militants, officials said. MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Dahir Abdi Salah used to feed ...

  • Suicide bomb in Afghan capital wounds 3 22 Jul 2008 15:31 GMT
    ... links between the blasts and next month's Olympic Games, officials said Tuesday. JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) — European Union foreign ministers agreed Tuesday ... airstrikes on Taliban militants, officials said. MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Dahir Abdi Salah used to feed ...


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