Couple sentenced for endangering adopted Ethiopian children

By Paula Reed Ward Pittsburgh Post-Gazette A former Franklin Park couple who pleaded no contest to endangering the welfare of two Ethiopian children they adopted were sentenced today under terms of a deal they struck with prosecutors last year. Douglas and Kristen Barbour each had pleaded no contest to two counts of endangerment. Common Pleas

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Ethiopian Man Struck, Killed during Hit-And-Run in NW DC

NBC Washington Metropolitan police are searching for a vehicle that struck and killed a pedestrian early Sunday morning. Police said the incident occurred at Georgia Avenue and Girard Street, NW, around 3 a.m. Sunday. The vehicle, which fled the scene after hitting the victim, is described as a 4-door Chrysler and the windshield should have

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Saudi court jails an Ethiopian on terror charges

Saudi Gazette RIYADH – The Special Criminal Court in Riyadh on Thursday sentenced four Saudis and an Ethiopian national to prison terms ranging from one to five years after they were convicted of terrorism-related charges. The court also slapped a travel ban of up to five years on the Saudi defendants upon their release from

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SoleRebels opens first store in San Jose, CA 

News Release  SoleRebels: Proud to be the planet’s first only WFTO Fair Trade footwear Company When it was founded in 2004 by Bethelhem Tilahun, soleRebels was just a small moms and pops business …. but it has changed quite a lot since. SoleRebels is now a globally recognized name. It is deemed by different bloggers

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Israel ‘coercing Africans to leave’

BBC African asylum seekers protest in Tel Aviv Richard Galpin reports from the US embassy where many migrants have gathered Israel is unlawfully coercing almost 7,000 Eritrean and Sudanese nationals into leaving the country at great personal risk, Human Rights Watch says. They have been denied access to fair and efficient asylum procedures and detained

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Israel ‘coercing Africans to leave’

BBC African asylum seekers protest in Tel Aviv Richard Galpin reports from the US embassy where many migrants have gathered Israel is unlawfully coercing almost 7,000 Eritrean and Sudanese nationals into leaving the country at great personal risk, Human Rights Watch says. They have been denied access to fair and efficient asylum procedures and detained

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Family, Friends Mourn Ethiopian Taxi Driver Killed in Atlanta Suburb

11 Alive Atlanta 11Alive Staff An Ethiopian taxi driver was shot to death in Atlanta on Sunday morning while trying to break up a fight between a customer (an Ethiopian woman, right) and her boyfriend Henok Basore, left. (Police photo) GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — A taxi driver was shot to death in a condominium complex

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Israel’s Ethiopian immigrants lose connection with folklore

Al-Monitor AUTHOR-Yuval Avivi TRANSLATOR(S)-Aviva Arad Passport pictures for Ethiopians, who are awaiting immigration to Israel, lie on a table in Gondar, March 8, 2007.  (photo by REUTERS/Eliana Aponte) One Ethiopian folktale goes as follows: “A long time ago, Abba Gabra Hanna went to visit the village of Lalibla. Along the way, he met a jolly

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Dawit Seyoum arrested by police in connection with Alexandria homicide

WTOP Alexandria police have arrested a man and charged him in the death of Carolyn Cross. Police said they were called to an apartment complex in the 4800 block of Kenmore Avenue in Alexandria shortly after 8 a.m. Sunday. Cross was pronounced dead at the scene. Police say they were called to the complex shortly

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Ethiopian gang involved in human trafficking arrested

ArabTimes KUWAIT CITY, : Securitymen from the Residency Affairs General Department have arrested a gang of Ethiopians suspected of involvement in human trafficking, reports Al- Seyassah daily. Acting on a tip-off, Director General of the General Department for Security and Residency Affairs Major General Ghazi Al-Mazi and Lieutenant Colonel Abdullah Al-Hamlan formed a team of

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