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Watson Wins Masters in Playoff

Posted April 8th, 2012 at 11:40 pm (UTC-5)
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American golfer Bubba Watson has won the Masters, using an extraordinary shot on the second playoff hole Sunday to capture the first major tournament of the year and the first major of his career. The 33-year-old played a steady final round until the 13th hole, when he rolled off four consecutive birdies to claim a […]

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New Blast Hits Egyptian Gas Pipeline

Posted April 8th, 2012 at 10:05 pm (UTC-5)
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Egyptian security officials say an explosion hit a gas pipeline supplying gas to Israel and Jordan. The officials say the blast early Monday occurred near the northern coastal town of Al-Arish in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. It was the 14th such attack on the pipeline since 2011, when the uprising against President Hosni Mubarak began. The […]

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ECOWAS Lifts Sanctions Against Mali

Posted April 8th, 2012 at 9:45 pm (UTC-5)
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Mali’s President Amadou Toumani Toure has officially resigned weeks after being toppled in a military coup that came just months before his term was to end. A mediator for ECOWAS — the Economic Community of West African States — said he received Mr. Toure’s resignation letter Sunday. An ECOWAS official tells VOA that the group […]

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Afghanistan, US Sign Deal on Night Raids

Posted April 8th, 2012 at 7:55 pm (UTC-5)
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The United States and Afghanistan signed an agreement Sunday putting Afghans in charge of special operations, including controversial night raids on Afghan homes that have been a major source of contention between the two sides. Afghan Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak and the U.S. commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, General John Allen, signed the […]

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ECOWAS Lifts Sanctions Against Mali

Posted April 8th, 2012 at 7:50 pm (UTC-5)
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Mali’s President Amadou Toumani Toure has officially resigned weeks after being toppled in a military coup that came just months before his term was to end. A mediator for ECOWAS — the Economic Community of West African States — said he received Mr. Toure’s resignation letter Sunday. An ECOWAS official tells VOA that the group […]

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Afghanistan, US Sign Deal on Night Raids

Posted April 8th, 2012 at 7:15 pm (UTC-5)
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The United States and Afghanistan signed an agreement Sunday putting Afghans in charge of special operations, including controversial night raids on Afghan homes that have been a major source of contention between the two sides. Afghan Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak and the U.S. commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, General John Allen, signed the […]

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Cruise Ship Retracing Route of Ill-Fated Titanic

Posted April 8th, 2012 at 7:15 pm (UTC-5)
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A cruise ship steamed out of the British city of Southampton Sunday to retrace the route taken by the legendary ill-fated ocean liner Titanic 100 years ago. Many of the passengers sailing to New York on the Balmoral are relatives of those who lost their lives when the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank in […]

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Bomb Kills 20 in Nigeria

Posted April 8th, 2012 at 6:20 pm (UTC-5)
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Nigerian officials say a car bombing near a church on Easter Sunday killed at least 20 people in the country’s north. A witness said the bomb went off in a business area near the church in the northern Nigerian town of Kaduna. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. Later Sunday, a blast in the […]

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Syria Peace Plan in Jeopardy as Govt. Raises New Demands

Posted April 8th, 2012 at 6:10 pm (UTC-5)
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A peace deal to stop bloodshed in Syria brokered by U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan appeared in jeopardy Sunday, after President Bashar al-Assad’s government raised new, last-minute demands that the country’s main rebel group quickly rejected. Damascus said it wanted iron-clad “written guarantees” that insurgents would stop fighting before it withdraws troops from cities. A […]

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Apparent Bomb Kills Ethnic Albanian in Kosovo

Posted April 8th, 2012 at 5:35 pm (UTC-5)
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An apparent bomb planted outside an apartment window killed an ethnic Albanian man and wounded two of his children Sunday in the ethnically-tense Kosovo city of Mitrovica. Police are investigating the incident, but Kosovo authorities are already calling it an act of terrorism The top European Union official in Kosovo urged people to stay calm, […]

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