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Morocco busts Qaeda recruitment cell: ministry
Moroccan authorities on Tuesday said they had broken up a recruitment cell for Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb in the central Fez region, after announcing the discovery of a jihadist network last month.
"The police, in coordination with t...
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Jobless Tunisian kills himself in uprising town: witnesses
A young unemployed teenager has killed himself in Sidi Bouzid, the marginalised town in central Tunisia where the country's revolution erupted two years ago, witnesses said on Tuesday.
Wissem Hani, 17, died on Sunday from a massive electr...
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Nigeria gunmen kill six at midnight church service
Gunmen attacked a church in northern Nigeria on Christmas Eve, killing six people, including the pastor, and setting the building on fire, residents and police said Tuesday.
"A group of gunmen came into the village at midnight and went st...
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Anichebe return perfect timing, says Moyes
Everton's Nigerian striker Victor Anichebe has returned to first team action at just the right time club manager David Moyes said on Tuesday.
The 24-year-old showed little sign of lacking match fitness as he returned to the side and score...
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Egypt court frees Mubarak-era senate chief on bail
An Egyptian court on Tuesday freed the former senate leader under ousted president Hosni Mubarak on bail, after spending the maximum permitted 18 months in jail awaiting his corruption trial, the official MENA news agency reported.
Safwat...
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Mandela visited by family in hospital
Ailing Nelson Mandela was Tuesday visited in hospital by his wife Graca Machel and family as he spent Christmas Day on his sickbed, said President Jacob Zuma who joined the family.
"We found him in good spirits," said Zuma in a statement....
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Four killed in northern Kenya cattle raid
Four people were shot dead in a raid to steal cattle in northern Kenya, police said Tuesday, despite a major security operation after 42 policemen were killed in an ambush by alleged rustlers in the same area last month.
"Four people were...
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Official results of divisive Egypt vote due Tuesday
Authorities in Egypt are to release official results on Tuesday of a constitutional referendum that the ruling Islamists say they have already won, but which the opposition alleges was marred by fraud.
The numbers, to be given out by the ...
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Mandela spends Christmas Eve in hospital
Ailing icon Nelson Mandela spent Christmas Eve in hospital Monday, sixteen days after he was admitted for a recurrent lung infection -- his longest inpatient stay since he was released from prison in 1990.
Officials say the 94-year-old st...
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Egypt waits on referendum results; opposition cries fraud
Egypt on Monday was awaiting official results of a referendum on a new constitution reportedly backed by two-thirds of voters but which the opposition alleged was riddled with fraud.
"No official date has been fixed" for the final pollin...
