UMM Rakuba, Sudan (AP) – The only survivors can agree that hundreds of people were massacred in a single Ethiopian city. Witnesses say security forces and their allies attacked civilians in Mai-Kadra with glasses and knives or strangled them with ropes. The body odor lasted for days during the initial …
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – Iran on Saturday hanged a once-deported journalist for his workline work, which helped provoke a nationwide economic protest in 2017, officials said, just months after he returned to Tehran under mysterious circumstances. Ruhullah Zam, 47, was hanged early Saturday morning, according to Iranian state television and …
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Nairobi, Kenya (AP) – Ethiopia said in a United Nations development report on Friday that it was returning thousands of refugees fleeing war in its Tigris region camps and putting them back on buses in the border area. Along with Eritrea, the country from which the refugee originally fled. The …
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BRUSSELS (AP) – European Union leaders fought hard on Friday to reduce the group’s net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% compared to 1990 levels, avoiding the embarrassing hurdle ahead of a UN climate meeting this week. After a night-long discussion at their two-day summit in Brussels, the 27 …
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Beirut (AP) – Gasan Hasrauti spent most of his life working on silos at the port of Beirut, unloading grain to feed the country, despite fighting around him during the 1975-90 civil war. Decades later, it crumbled under the same silos, gutting their huge cement structure with the force of …
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