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The minister designate for communications, Dr. Edward Omane Boamah says the first two sets of appointments made by president Mahama show how focused he is to the advancement of the better Ghana agenda.
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A member of the NDC legal team, Nana Ato Dadzie, has said the NDC has faith in the panel of judges of sitting over their request to be joined as respondents to the petition filed by NPP leaders seeking to annul the outcome of last month's polls.
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Ethiopia Returns to Nations Cup After 31-Year Absence(Degu Debebe File Photo) Ethiopia Returns to Nations Cup After 31-Year Absence Source: VOA Ethiopian football fans are excited to see their national team return to the Africa Cup of Nations t...
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It's interesting to note that while Bradford are the third best side in League Two at home, they are only the 16th best side away from Valley Parade.
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FBI foils assassination plot against Ethiopian journalistSource: Addis VoiceThe Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has foiled a plot to shoot and kill Ethiopian journalist Abebe Gellaw in Boston, Massachusetts.The plot was allegedly orches...
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Actually, snow is not all that unheard of in Jordan, but with all the heavy rains and floods soaking the Middle East, at least Amman got snow:
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Ads for political parties deemed too offensive to air on television by Israel's Central Election Committee have reached large numbers of people on YouTube.
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When it comes to electronic health records, "the switch to cloud is inevitable." That's according to Joy Pritts, Chief Privacy Officer at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT in the Obama administration, who spoke at a "Health Care, the Cloud, and Privacy" panel hosted by the Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group, Patient Privacy [...]
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As I noted in an entry towards the end of last year, 2013 should be an interesting year for black cinema (at the studio level, indie, and across the disapora). Looking down my continuously-growing list of black films scheduled for release (theatrical, TV, or home video), as well as those that will debut on the film festival circuit this year, it's quite long, and, as noted, is still growing. In fact, I'd say that we might find ourselves in one of those rare years, when there's a fuller than usual slate of studio-backed black films, to complement the indies - an indie slate that, given what we know so far, should be strong - and foreign (to the USA) titles from...
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Important developments at ZCCM-IH last month. They appear to be getting their house in order. As well as the statement below, their website is now more functional. The 2012 financials are critical. These are not yet available. We grateful to our esteemed reader who tracked down this statement for us.
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From Jason Silva:
"RADICAL OPENNESS" - for TEDGlobal 2012 by @JasonSilva from Jason Silva on Vimeo.
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Web users campaign to reunite a mother with her little girl, abducted by the father. Online pranksters play a pretty sick joke on Justin Bieber fans. And a short video documenting one man's transition from male to female.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal began talks in Egypt on Wednesday night to discuss how to implement a reconciliation deal that they agreed on in Cairo in 2011.
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For the past five years, Robert Mugabe's government has, in effect, persecuted the Anglican Church in Zimbabwe. As I blogged...
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There has been more chaos at Zambia Wildlife Authority (ZAWA) in the new year.
Tourism Minister Sylvia Masebo on before the dawn of 2013 fired the ZAWA management team, including Director General Edwin Matokwani, for alleged corrupt practices in awarding Safari hunting concessions. Ms Masebo said ZAWA had awarded hunting concessions to a family cartel, among others, which had significant potential to promote money laundering. She has since reported the fired individuals to the ACC.
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