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Awdhegle town official Mohamed Aways said on radio that the brunt of the overnight attack -- involving three warplanes and "infantry" -- lasted about 30 minutes, the state-run Somali National News Agency reported Wednesday. Awdhegle is located about 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu. |
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This Thursday sees the 50th anniversary of the death of the beloved Cork writer Frank O’Connor. UCC lecturer and novelist MARY MORRISSY assesses his legacy. “A GOOD short story should be news,” the Cork writer Frank O’Connor once said. As the 50th anniversary of his death falls on Thursday,.... |
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By Nelson Manneh. Christians from different denominations in the country have converged on Saturday, 5 March, 2016 for a national day of prayers organised by the Gambia Christian Council (GCC) at the Independence Stadium handball court in Bakau. Speaking on the occasion, Pastor John Njie, the.... |
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Most Rev. Charles Palmer-Buckle, Metropolitan Archbishop of Accra, has cautioned politicians who are crisscrossing the country and soliciting votes from Ghanaians to promise what they can really deliver. The Archbishop could not comprehend why most politicians who even claim to be Christians would.... |
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Scientist Stephen Hawking has paid tribute to the teacher who inspired his early steps into scholarship, the reports. BBC He says Dikran Tahta at St Albans School opened his eyes to maths, which he describes as the “blueprint of the universe”. “My handwriting was bad, and I could be lazy. Many teachers were boring. |
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March 8, 2016 (JUBA) – The head of Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis, has expressed interested to visit the war-torn South Sudan to meet its leaders during the upcoming transitional period, a bishop who met the Pope has said. Roko Taban Musa, the Apostolic Administrator of the Catholic Diocese of.... |
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When I stood at the New Polo Ground in Accra at midnight on 5 March 1957, within earshot of Dr Kwame Nkrumah, as he whispered to Mr Krobo Edusei, “Bepae ma me!” (Come and do the opening salutation me!) and heard Krobo respond by yelling with gusto: “CHOOOOOBOI!”..... |
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The self-proclaimed ‘truther’ claims not a single shot was fired and no one died in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 14, 2012. Reports say more than 150 bullets were fired. ‘This guy named David Wheeler, who was dragged before the nation by Obama after the Newtown school shootings, supposedly Sandy.... |
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MMD leader Nevers Mumba yesterday shunned a ‘reconciliation’ meeting chaired by Northmead Assembly of God overseer Bishop Joshua Banda. Meanwhile, MMD national secretary Mwansa Mbulakulima has suspended Winnie Zaloumis from the party with immediate effect. |
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The Rev. Carl Gallups preaches from both sides of his mouth: He endorses Donald Trump, yet denies the slaughter of 26 innocents at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Gallups, who delivered the a rousing invocation at Florida rally for The Donald in January, is a so-called “truther” who insists not a.... |
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Bryan Woolston/Reuters One of the Baltimore cops charged in the death of Freddie Gray will have to testify against other officers involved in the case while he awaits his own retrial, a Maryland court ruled Tuesday. Officer William 2016-03-08.
Officer William Porter, whose own trial ended with a.... |
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