Deputy Majority Leader in Parliament and NDC parliamentary candidate for Wa Central, Rashid Pelpuo has denied owning a fleet of Yutong buses and an international school located at Kasoa in the Central Region.

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This month sees BlazeSports return to the City of Amman, Jordan to continue its multi-partner, USAID funded, sports project for those with physical disabilities. Over a two week period, from November 4th-18th, BlazeSports will deliver coach education practical and theory workshops covering areas of classification, adaptive sports techniques, boccia, athletics, wheelchair basketball, table tennis and soccer. In addition the candidates who attend these aforementioned courses will then have the opportunity to apply their newly acquired knowledge in a variety of hands-on practical settings.

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Beyond the ethics, co-operatives have weathered the recession well - and private enterprise would do well to take note

Jiang Xingsan's day job is helping to run a vast agricultural group, the All-China Federation of Supply and Manufacturing Co-operatives, which serves millions of farmers across China, and has increased its payroll by 200,000 in the past year alone. But he was in Manchester last week, paying tribute to the Rochdale Pioneers.

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Many Rohingya people are attempting dangerous voyages to Bangladesh and Thailand, but most are sent back on arrival

First one body appeared, floating in the waters of the Bay of Bengal, then another, and another, until those on board the little fishing boat that had gone to their rescue began to lose count.

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Many of us we are passionate about photography and would love to see our images selling to a wide audience, but like anyone setting up a business, we have to give it time, along with a massive push to get the business going.Like anyone who starts up a business the first thing we must do [...]

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"Fareed Zakaria GPS" this Sunday at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. ET. The United States is about to elect a new president. But what would the rest of the world like to see? Fareed assembles a global panel of thinkers to tackle the issue, including: From Singapore, Kishore Mahbubani, dean of the Lee Kuan Yew [...]

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While multiple Republican governors and Mitt Romney surrogates have praised the administration's response in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) told CNN on Saturday that some voters might blame President Obama for the government's relief efforts. Romney's point-persion in Ohio emphasized the importance of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in helping [...]

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A Canadian mining company defended its activities in Eritrea -- a nation dubbed the "North Korea of Africa" by some -- at a Commons Subcommittee on International Human Rights meeting Thursday. ...

Elizabeth Chyrum, director of Human Rights Concern Eritrea and an Eritrean herself, Aaron Berhane of Eritrean Human Rights Group Canada, and Alex Neve, secretary general of Amnesty International Canada, testified before the subcommittee in February, raising concerns about the poor treatment of Eritrean workers by Segen Construction, a government-owned Eritrean company hired by Nevsun at the mine.

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The Rift Valley Institute's Usalama Project is delighted to announce the launch of the first two reports in a series of publications on armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). You can download both reports from our website.

The first Usalama report is an account of the origins and trajectory of the new M23 rebellion and its alleged relationship with the Rwandan government. The second report traces the deeper history of conflict in the CNDP's and M23's stronghold, North Kivu province.

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A last-minute directive issued by Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted could invalidate legal provisional ballots. Ohio is widely viewed as the most critical state for both presidential campaigns and -- with some polls showing a close race -- the 11th-hour move could swing the entire election. The directive, issued Friday, lays out the requirements [...]

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The Rift Valley Institute's Usalama Project is delighted to announce the launch of the first two reports in a series of publications on armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). You can download both reports from our website.

The first Usalama report is an account of the origins and trajectory of the new M23 rebellion and its alleged relationship with the Rwandan government. The second report traces the deeper history of conflict in the CNDP's and M23's stronghold, North Kivu province.

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