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Israel's Netanyahu to meet Hollande in ParisJerusalem (AFP) Oct 22, 2012 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will travel next week to France for his first meeting with President Francois Hollande since he came to power in May, a statement from Netanyahu's office said. It said that during the visit, for which no precise date was given, Netanyahu would attend a memorial at the Jewish school in Toulouse where three children and a French-Israeli teacher were killed on March 19 by Mohamed Merah, a Frenchman of Algerian descent. The visit, which the statement said is ... read more |
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  Iraq PM in power grab by ousting bank chief: experts The targeting of Iraq's well-respected central bank chief appears to be a move by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to consolidate power and sends a bad message to international investors, experts and diplomats say. ... more | .. |
  Climate variability and conflict risk in East Africa measured by Boulder team While a new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder shows the risk of human conflict in East Africa increases somewhat with hotter temperatures and drops a bit with higher precipitation, it ... more | .. |
  Floods in S.Africa kill eight Heavy rains that lashed South Africa's southeast left eight people dead over the weekend and caused extensive damage to property, an official said on Monday. ... more | .. |
 Hong Kong to restrict foreign homebuyers from 2013 US judge OKs partial settlement in e-book case Nordic-Baltic states seek more cooperation Outside View: Jobs outlook grim Empire-style computers? Frenchman takes PCs to lap of luxury Google-Microsoft field smartphones to take on iPhone 5 EU businesses urge China's new leaders to speed reforms |
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 Guinea-Bissau blames Portugal after foiled coup bid Guinea-Bissau security forces were hunting Monday for armed men behind a foiled coup bid in the chronically unstable nation which the government has accused former colonial power Portugal of instigating. ... more | .. |
 Mugabe, Tsvangirai call for peaceful constitution talks Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and his arch rival Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Monday called for peace as they opened talks on a draft of a new constitution that would pave the way for elections. ... more | .. |
 China lodges protest over killing in Nigeria China said Monday it had lodged a diplomatic protest over the fatal shooting of a Chinese worker in Nigeria and demanded that the African nation take "concrete measures" to better protect its nationals. ... more | .. |
  Mauritanian soldier describes shooting at president A Mauritanian soldier said to have shot and wounded President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz by misadventure on October 13 has given his version of events on state television. ... more |
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  Hong Kong customs seize four tonnes of smuggled ivory Hong Kong customs officers seized almost four tonnes of ivory worth about $3.4 million, hidden in shipments from Kenya and Tanzania, officials said Saturday. ... more | .. |
 Argentina: UN an option over Ghana ship seizure Argentina on Friday threatened to take Ghana before the United Nations if it refuses to take responsibility for the seizure earlier this month of a warship belonging to Buenos Aires. ... more | .. |
 Fear stalks DR Congo's rebel-held territory "Women and girls are raped by M23. They steal our goats and property from our homes," said a resident of Rugari, in a rebel-held part of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. ... more | .. |
  Embraer delivers Super Tucano aircraft to Mauritania Brazil's top planemaker Embraer said Monday it has delivered an undisclosed number of its A-29 Super Tucano light attack aircraft to the Mauritanian Air Force. ... more |
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  Stanford researchers use solar power to study elephants in Africa A team of elephant researchers from Stanford University has transformed a remote corner of southern Africa into a high-tech field camp run entirely on sunlight. The seasonal solar-powered research c ... more | .. |
  Egypt pushes Ethiopia to scrap Nile dam Egypt increasingly views Ethiopia's plan to build a massive 6,000-megawatt hydroelectric dam on the Nile River as a threat to its national security because it will seriously cut the Arab state's water supplies. ... more | .. |
 UN official visits Benin over west African floods A top UN humanitarian official visited Benin on Friday as flooding ravaged parts of west and central Africa, affecting some 1.5 million people. ... more | .. |
 Attacks, clash in north Nigeria kill several, burn buildings Attacks and gun battles between suspected Islamists and security forces in a northeastern Nigerian town have killed several people and destroyed buildings, residents and authorities said Friday, while unrest also hit another city. ... more |
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DAMPE space telescope finds universal spectral feature that narrows field on cosmic ray origins
ThinKom Develops Self-Funded Mobile HPM Weapon to Counter Drone Swarms
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  Argentine military official resigns over warship seizure The head of Argentina's military intelligence resigned Thursday in the wake of a warship seizure by Ghana over a bond dispute, a source said. ... more | .. |
  Fund in Argentine ship row offers to repatriate some sailors A fund whose court claims have led to the seizure of an Argentine warship in Ghana has offered to repatriate its stranded sailors who are "of other nationalities," according to a letter obtained by AFP Friday. ... more | .. |
 Safety still concern at Zambia's Chinese-owned mines Work conditions at Zambia's Chinese-owned copper mines have improved, but the Asian giant's labour record is still clouding its sizeable investments into the country, Human Rights Watch said Friday. ... more | .. |
  Iraq blocks Turkish buses headed for Saudi Iraq on Thursday refused to allow more than 120 Turkish buses to cross into Saudi Arabia, apparently loaded with Mecca pilgrims, because the passengers did not have visas issued by Baghdad, officials said. ... more |
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 400 plants and animals added to 'threatened' list An island-dwelling cockroach and a tiny snail were declared extinct Wednesday while 400 plants and animals were added to a threatened "Red List" as global environment ministers met in India. ... more | .. |
 Vincent the hippo becomes dish for Zulu king A South African hippopotamus named Vincent has been killed and cooked for Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini after the animal wounded a game ranger, local media reported Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Liberian president in Ivory Coast to discuss border security Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf arrived Thursday in Ivory Coast to discuss security on the countries' border, which has been violated in recent months by armed gangs raiding the Ivorian side from Liberia. ... more | .. |
 Morsi defends ex-army chief against corruption report Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi sought on Thursday to reassure the military after a state-owned newspaper reported corruption charges against the two army chiefs he sacked in August. ... more |
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 Soldiers accused of abuses after Nigeria student massacre Nigerian troops have been accused of indiscriminate shootings and other abuses in a troubled town where gunmen this month massacred 40 people, including students, a lawyers' group said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 US Army general nominated to Africa command Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Thursday nominated a former senior commander in Afghanistan as the new head of the military's Africa Command, which oversees US security efforts on the continent. ... more | .. |
 DRCongo, Uganda Muslims banned from Mecca over Ebola epidemic Saudi Arabia has banned Muslims from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda from making the pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca this year because of cholera and Ebola epidemics in the region, a Congolese religious leader said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Africa faces spike in older people living with HIV Sub-Saharan Africa is likely to see a more than 200 percent increase in the number of older people living with HIV in the next 30 years, thanks to improvements in lifesaving treatment, experts said Thursday. ... more |
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Liberia,ICoast to hold joint manoeuvres on border by end of year Ivory Coast and Liberia are to hold joint military exercises by the end of the year, the presidents of the two countries said on Thursday, noting that joint action has helped to curb attacks in western Ivory Coast by armed groups based in eastern Liberia. ... more | .. |
 Life expectancy shoots up to 60 in SAfrica: study Life expectancy in AIDS-hit South Africa has shot up by six years to 60 over the past few years, thanks to life prolonging anti-retroviral (ARVs) treatment, a demographer said Thursday. ... more | .. |
  Jihadist threat: Israel gunning in Gaza Israel's aerial assassination of the two top jihadist leaders in the Gaza Strip marked a major blow against al-Qaida in the Palestinian territory, which is seen as a growing threat because of ties to Islamist extremists in Egypt's increasingly lawless Sinai Peninsula. ... more | .. |
 President shot amid moves against al-Qaida The president of coup-prone Mauritania was recovering in a French hospital Wednesday after being shot by one of his own soldiers. ... more |
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