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Obama Celebrates Holiday With Service – NYTimes.com

Obama Celebrates Holiday With Service – NYTimes.comNext door to our house

Inauguration Day 2009 Closures

BBC NEWS | Mbeki 'vindicated' by Zuma ruling

BBC NEWS | Mbeki ‘vindicated’ by Zuma ruling

A relative of the drowned pirate told the BBC the family was now trying to dry out the recovered money.

A relative of the drowned pirate told the BBC the family was now trying to dry out the recovered money.BBC NEWS | Africa | Pirate ‘washes ashore with cash’

ANC claims it will actually do something!

Ethiopian politics are sweet…

The bill bans international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) from five sorts of activity:

• The advancement of human and democratic rights

• The promotion of equality between peoples, sexes or religions

• Campaigning for children’s rights or the rights of the disabled

• Conflict resolution and reconciliation

• Work on criminal justice issues.

I was tortured. At first I was assaulted on the soles of my feet with a hard rubber object, while I was sitting on the floor. Later I was told to raise my feet to a table, and then everyone in the room started assaulting me. “They took a break for a while, then started beating me again. And beatings continued every few hours. The men were always visibly drunk, many of them with bottles of liquor in their hands.

I was tortured. At first I was assaulted on the soles of my feet with a hard rubber object, while I was sitting on the floor. Later I was told to raise my feet to a table, and then everyone in the room started assaulting me. “They took a break for a while, then started [...]

Mugabe takes month-long break to 'reflect'

Mugabe takes month-long break to ‘reflect’

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