| NH jury chosen in Rwanda genocide case
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AP - The trial of a New Hampshire woman charged with lying about her role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide is expected to transport jurors back almost 18 years to a roadblock outside a family owned hotel in Butare where prosecutors say the defendant decided who would live and who would die. |
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| Witness: Explosions rock northern Nigeria city
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 AP - Multiple explosions rocked a highway checkpoint in Nigeria's second-largest city, witnesses said Wednesday, just over a month after a radical Islamist sect claimed an attack there that left at least 185 people dead.
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| British man gets probation in KBR bribery scheme
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AP - A British man has been sentenced to probation for helping a former Halliburton Co. subsidiary steer massive bribes to Nigerian officials to win more than $6 billion in construction contracts. |
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| Judge to rule on Mubarak case on June 2
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Reuters - The verdict in the trial of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, charged with ordering the killing of protesters in the uprising that swept him from power, will be delivered on June 2, the judge said on Wednesday. |
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| UN votes to increase African force in Somalia
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 AP - The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Wednesday to authorize an increase in the African Union force in Somalia from 12,000 to about 17,700 and expand its areas of operation in an effort to intensify pressure on al-Shabab militants who recently joined al-Qaida.
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| Witness describes attempt on exiled Rwandan
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AP - Days before an exiled Rwandan army general was shot and wounded in South Africa, two of the men charged in the shooting were plotting another attempt on his life, a witness testified Wednesday. |
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| US troops now in 4 African countries to fight LRA
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AP - U.S. troops helping in the fight against a brutal rebel group called the Lord's Resistance Army are now deployed in four Central African countries, the top U.S. special operations commander for Africa said Wednesday. |
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| Leaders meet in UK over fragile Somalia's future
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 AP - Somalia's fragile leadership, its neighbors and international allies are meeting in London in the hope of speeding the troubled east African nation's progress toward a stable government and containing the threat from Islamic militants who some fear could export terrorism to Europe and the United States.
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| Libya court orders civil trial for Gaddafi "loyalists"
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Reuters - A Libyan military court ruled on Wednesday that 50 people accused of fighting for Muammar Gaddafi and helping a mass jail break by alleged supporters of the deposed leader should be freed and tried instead in a civilian court. |
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| Fire at Egypt oil refinery kills 4 workers
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AP - The director of an oil refinery says four of his Egyptian workers died as they tried to put out a huge fire that erupted at the plant's complex in the port city of Suez. |
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| Gunshots, explosions heard in Nigeria's Kano
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Reuters - Gunshots and explosions rang out early Wednesday in Nigeria's biggest northern city Kano, local residents said, in a region beset by violence by Islamist sect Boko Haram. |
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| UN: W. Africa cocaine trade generates $900M a year
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AP - The U.N. agency that fights drugs and crime estimated that cocaine trafficking is generating some $900 million annually in West and Central Africa as South American cartels use the shortest route to transport drugs to Europe. |
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