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Canadian oil firm defies Ethiopian rebel threats By WILLIAM LLOYD GEORGE Globe and Mail This harsh region, thought to be rich in natural gas, is beginning to attract foreign investors after years of separatist violence and attacks on oil facilit...
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Conservative talk show host Sean Hannity launched an Islampophobic attack against Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) during his Fox News show on Thursday night, implying that the Muslim Congressman is a racist and an anti-Semite. The segment came just days after Ellison and Hannity engaged in a confrontational interview on Tuesday night. "We decided to take [...]
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The Washington Post's Bob Woodward appeared on Fox News' Hannity on Thursday evening to complain about National Economic Council director Gene Sperling's email disputing his characterization of the White House's role in shaping the mechanism known as the sequester -- the automatic across-the-board budget cuts that will go into effect on Friday. Over the weekend [...]
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Profile of Abune Mathias of Ethiopia Source: danielberhane.com Abune Mathias is elected as the 6th Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahdo Church receiving two-third of the votes cast. Abune Mathias was born Aba Teklemariam Asrat in 1934 Eth...
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After over five hours of testimony, the Colorado House Judiciary Committee voted 8-3 to advance SB 11, the civil unions bill. Last year, the legislation was killed by Republicans in the House, but Democrats won sweeping victories and even elected Rep. Mark Ferrandino (D), who is openly gay and previously sponsored civil unions, to be [...]
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Yityish Aynaw, the first woman of Ethiopian origin to be crowned 'Miss Israel'. Photo by Elad Gershgoren / YNet NewsEthiopian-Israeli Wins Miss Israel 201321-year-old model Yityish Aynaw, a former IDF officer, made aliyah some 10 years ago.Yi...
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Israeli Ethiopian birth control to be examined By Yolande Knell BBC News, Jerusalem Israel's health ministry is to investigate why contraceptive injections were widely given to Ethiopian immigrant women. A new committee will look into allegat...
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Ethiopia and Kenya: An ideological competition between two diametrically opposed economic models Source: Economist ETHIOPIAN BORDER GUARDS at the arrivals terminal in Metema check every passport against a handwritten list of undesirables to be kept...
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Ethiopia Tries to Capitalize on Its Running Fame By BENNO MUCHLER The New York Times ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- On a warm Sunday morning in late November, about 36,000 people set off on the Great Ethiopian Run, a 10-kilometer race across the center...
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Abune Matias Photo AP Ethiopia's Orthodox Church Elects Abune Matias as the Patriarch of the Church Source: AP ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- Ethiopia's orthodox church has elected a new leader of the influential body in the predominantly Christian nat...
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World Fantasy Award-winning novelist Nnedi Okorafor's debut young adult novel is Akata Witch, a beautifully wrought hero's journey story about Sunny, a young girl with albinism born to Nigerian parents in America, and then returned to Nigeria, where she discovers that she is a Leopard Person -- a born sorcerer.
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There is a useful new feature on cfr.org, the Council on Foreign Relations' website. Ask a CFR Expert invites members...
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Our weekly feature profiling African photo-blogs and/or tumblrs moves to Cairo this week, as we take a scroll through Picture Masr, a Tumblr created by Cairo resident and Phd student Mohamed Elshahed. The images of "Egypt (mostly Cairo) beyond your Google image search results. The beauty of everyday life and all that is ordinary," were picked up [...]
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