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Liberia likely to revise logging contracts over graft: president
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Contracts to exploit Liberia's natural resources are likely to be revised or renegotiated once a probe into mismanaged agreements with logging firms is completed, Liberian President
Homes burned at alleged Darfur attack site: peacekeepers
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Peacekeepers said they had discovered homes burned and dead animals and ammunition littering the ground in a Darfur village allegedly attacked by pro-government forces last week.Their
UPDATE 2-Libyan wartime leader Jalil faces questioning over killing
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* Summoned over death of anti-Gaddafi rebel commander Younes* Eleven men already charged over July 2011 killing* Younes's death revealed splits in anti-Gaddafi movement* Violent disorder continues to
Businesslike South Africans dismiss Aussie mind games
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian attempts at mind games ahead of the test series against South Africa were at worst irrelevant and at best a motivation to the tourists, captain Graeme Smith said on Thursday.Individual
Wintry storm brings new woe to hard-hit U.S. Northeast
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A wintry storm dropped snow and rain on the U.S. Northeast on Wednesday, bringing dangerous winds and knocking out power in a region where hundreds of thousands were still in the dark
California man behind anti-Islam film to go back to jail for a year
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LOS ANGELES, Nov 7 (Reuters) - A California man who servedtime for bank fraud was sent back to jail on Wednesday forprobation violations stemming from his role in making a crudeanti-Islam film that
UPDATE 1-Egyptian teacher sentenced for cutting girls' unveiled hair
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(Updates with lawyer saying Kilany will appeal)CAIRO, Nov 6 (Reuters) - An Egyptian school teacher receiveda six-month suspended jail sentence on Tuesday for cutting thehair of two 12-year-old girl
Congo, Rwanda control tempers after border shoot-out
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* Congolese soldier was shot dead on Saturday* Relations with Rwanda the same - Congo army spokesman* Border where killing occurred runs through potato patchBy Kenny KatombeKABUANGA, Democratic Republic
Military action in Mali will have humanitarian cost: ICRC
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GENEVA (Reuters) - A military intervention in northern Mali against Islamist militants will have a high humanitarian cost, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Thursday.Access
Churches force Malawi to change tune on anti-gay law
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LILONGWE (Reuters) - Malawi's government has back-tracked on its decision to suspend arrests of gays, after churches in the strongly Christian country fiercely criticised the move.Justice minister Ralph
SOFTS-Sugar hits 2-1/4 year low on Brazil's harvest, cocoa drops
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* Liffe, ICE cocoa drop below 200-day moving averages * Coffee steadies, Vietnam robusta harvest in focus * Brazil's main center-south can belt far surpasses yr/yroutput (New throughout, updates
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Soccer-Six Brazilian cities to host 2013 Confederations Cup
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* Tournament seen as organisational test before World Cup* Delay-plagued stadiums to be ready only months beforeBy Andrew DownieSAO PAULO, Nov 8 (Reuters) - Brazil faces a race against time to complete
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UPDATE 1-Sudan rebels say downed Antonov plane in oil state
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* No immediate comment from Sudan's armed forces* Fighting South Kordofan broke out last year* Insurgents say ambushed government soldiers (Adds background, rebel ambush report)KHARTOUM, Nov 8 (Reuters)
Kenya's Keroche Breweries targets 20 pct market share
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Keroche Breweries plans to raise its share of the beer market in Kenya to 20 percent in two years and is increasing capacity to meet that target, its chief executive said on Thursday.Tabitha
S.African factory output feels impact of strikes
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African factory output shrank in September, its worst performance in six months, painting a bleak picture for Africa's biggest economy after a wave of strikes that began
Egypt telecom Mobinil hopes to swing to profit in 2013
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian mobile firm Mobinil hopes to swing back into profit in 2013 after being badly hit by the political turmoil that followed the toppling of President Hosni Mubarak last year, the
Sudan rebels say downed Antonov plane in oil state
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Rebels in Sudan's main oil state said on Thursday they had shot down a government Antonov military aircraft after it had bombed targets in the territory's Nuba mountains area.Sudan's
FAO slashes grain f'casts, world food prices stay high
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ROME (Reuters) - Global supply of key cereal staples including wheat is to tighten sharply in the 2012/13 crop season as wheat and maize output feels the pinch of the worst U.S. drought in more than half
Grand Parade plans to open Burger King in S.Africa
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Grand Parade Investments, through a subsidiary, plans to open South Africa's first Burger King restaurant in the first half of 2013, the company said on Thursday.The company's
AngloGold Ashanti earnings fall, halves dividend
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Anglo Gold Ashanti, the world's third-largest bullion producer, cut its dividend in half as it reported a six percent drop in third quarter earnings on Thursday in the face of
