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By: Mark Leon Goldberg on April 22, 2019In mid-march, Cyclone Idai struck southern Africa, ravaging parts of Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe. Of these countries, Mozambique was hardest hit. The storm struck the port city Beira and surrounding areas, c...
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April 22, 2019 Web Desk
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Press Statement
Michael R. Pompeo
Secretary of State
Washington, DC
April 21, 2019
The United States condemns in the strongest terms the terror attacks in Sri Lanka on Easter morning. Attacks on innocent people gathering in a place o...
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April 21, 2019 Web Desk
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RABAT, MOROCCO Thousands of demonstrators marched in Morocco's capital Sunday to condemn lengthy prison sentences given to dozens of activists, including the leader of the Hirak Rif poverty-fighting movement.The demonstration brought one of the main av...
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April 21, 2019 Web Desk
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Floods foster food fears in Iran
More than two million people in Iran are in need of some form of humanitarian assistance due to severe floods...
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April 19, 2019 Web Desk
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The latest assessment by UN Children’s Fund UNICEF, indicates that around 3,400 classrooms have either been destroyed or damaged, with 2,713 out of action in the Sofala area alone. In some of the areas affected, schools will need extensi...
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April 19, 2019 Web Desk
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YAOUNDE Hundreds of Cameroonian women gathered in the capital this week to urge the government to stop the killings in the country's Anglophone separatist western regions. Weeks of violent clashes in those areas have left at least 70 people dead.The ev...
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April 19, 2019 Web Desk
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