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Saturday, November 29, 2008

OPEC ends Cairo meeting without new output cuts

CAIRO, Egypt - OPEC has ended a meeting in Cairo without announcing new output cuts. The oil producing group’s president,...
Friday, November 28, 2008

Somali pirates hijack 1 ship, release another

NAIROBI, Kenya - Somali pirates hijacked a chemical tanker with dozens of Indian crew members today and a helicopter rescued three security guards who had jumped...

Ethiopia to withdraw from Somalia by end of year

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Ethiopia announced today that is pulling its forces from Somalia by year’s end, leaving the ravaged capital vulnerable to the Islamic...
Thursday, November 27, 2008

Brown student’s project saves lives in Rwanda

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A Brown University student is leading efforts to help thousands HIV victims in the tiny central African nation of Rwanda get access to healthy...
Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Zimbabwe’s new export: cholera

MUSINA, South Africa - Three makeshift tents in the hospital gardens of this gritty frontier town contain the most recent and unwelcome byproduct of Zimbabwe’s...
Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Shippers plead for more steps against pirates

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Shipping officials from around the world called yesterday for a military blockade along Somalia’s coast to intercept pirate vessels...

Pirates move Saudi supertanker farther from coast

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Pirates have moved a Saudi supertanker loaded with crude oil farther out to sea after an extremist Islamic group vowed to fight the bandits...


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