By HEATHER STEWART, THE GUARDIAN With its shuttered banks, furious public protests and iconoclastic politicians, the plight of Greece, brought to its knees by a crippling debt burden, has been gripping and heartbreaking in equal measure: a full-blown sovereign debt crisis on the doorstep of some of the wealthiest countries in the world. Yet new
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By Marthe van der Wolf, VOA Reeyot Alemu, an Ethiopian journalist who was unexpectedly released from prison last week after being convicted on terrorism charges, vows to continue her work as a reporter. “I am sure I will continue my writings because it’s my job, and also its my passion to write,” she said. “And
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As many as 100 bodies, presumably of migrants, have been found washed up on the beach near the Libyan city of Tajoura, a migrant rights group said on Tuesday. Migrant Report stated that the spokesman of Tripoli’s anti-immigration department confirmed the bodies are believed to be the victims of a shipwreck off Tajoura, which is
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An Egyptian naval vessel burned off the coast of the northern Sinai Peninsula on Thursday. A militant group and the military gave conflicting accounts of an attack. By KAREEM FAHIM CAIRO — A militant group affiliated with the Islamic State said it destroyed an Egyptian naval vessel on Thursday, posting photographs on social media of
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By LAUREN FRENCH Half a dozen lawmakers will travel with Barack Obama to Kenya and Ethiopia next week in what is the president’s first trip to his ancestral homeland since being elected. The White House invited a large contingent of lawmakers, prominently members of the Congressional Black Caucus, to join him on the Africa trip.
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Johannesburg (AFP) – The top 20 ranked African national football teams will avoid each other in the first and second qualifying rounds for the 2018 World Cup, FIFA confirmed Thursday. A spokesman in Zurich for the world football governing body said the draws would be made on July 25 in Russian city Saint Petersburg, subject
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Washington (AFP) – More than 50 African and global human rights groups on Tuesday called on US President Barack Obama to publicly meet democracy activists when he visits Ethiopia and Kenya later this month. In a letter delivered to the White House, groups welcomed Obama’s planned visit but voiced concerns about “grave and worsening human
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“I’m still scared that I might go back to prison” says journalist Tesfalem Waldyes BBC: It’s never an easy decision: Should I interview someone who wants to talk in public, but who knows that a word out of line could mean arrest and imprisonment? I’ve wrestled with the issue before in Myanmar, also known as
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VIENNA (Reuters) – Iran and six major world powers reached a nuclear deal on Tuesday, capping more than a decade of negotiations with an agreement that could transform the Middle East, and which Israel called an “historic surrender”. Under the deal, sanctions imposed by the United States, European Union and United Nations would be lifted
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Press Release Min Zhu, Deputy Managing Director, IMF UN Conference on Financing for Development, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia July 13, 2015 Introduction Good morning. Tena yistilign. Prime Minister, Secretary-General, Mr. Presidents, Royal Highnesses, Excellencies, Ladies, and Gentlemen: Let me start by saying that our Managing Director Christine Lagarde is not able to join us here today
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