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Founder of the Unification Church Dies at 92

Posted September 2nd, 2012 at 5:50 pm (UTC-5)
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Sun Myung Moon, the founder of the Unification Church and one of the most prominent Koreans in the world, has died. He was 92. The Unification Church in South Korea said Sunday that its founder succumbed to complications from pneumonia in a church-run hospital east of Seoul. Reverend Moon’s global business empire is worth billions […]

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UNICEF: 1,600 Killed in Syria’s Civil War Last Week

Posted September 2nd, 2012 at 5:35 pm (UTC-5)
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The U.N. children’s fund UNICEF says Syria’s civil war killed 1,600 people last week, making it the deadliest seven-day period of the 18-month conflict. UNICEF spokesman Patrick McCormick said Sunday the death toll included some children, but he did not elaborate. Syrian opposition activists have been reporting daily death tolls of 100 to 200 people […]

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Angolan State Media Declare Dos Santos, MPLA Big Winners

Posted September 2nd, 2012 at 4:15 pm (UTC-5)
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Angola’s state run media say the ruling party of President Eduardo dos Santos is the big winner in the country’s national election. The state election commission said with 85 percent of the votes counted Mr. dos Santos’ Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola, or MPLA, had almost three quarters of the vote. The leading […]

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Founder of the Unification Church Dies at 92

Posted September 2nd, 2012 at 3:50 pm (UTC-5)
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Sun Myung Moon, the founder of the Unification Church and one of the most prominent Koreans in the world, has died. He was 92. The Unification Church said Sunday its founder succumbed to complications from pneumonia in a church-run hospital east of Seoul. Moon’s global dynasty is possibly still worth billions of dollars, while his […]

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Britain’s Ex-PM Blair Rejects Tutu’s Charge On Iraq War

Posted September 2nd, 2012 at 3:40 pm (UTC-5)
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Britain’s former Prime Minister Tony Blair has rejected a call by South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu that he and former U.S. President George W. Bush should go on trial for starting the war in Iraq. The outspoken bishop wrote in the British newspaper The Observer that the two leaders acted on a false premise in […]

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Mourners Attend Funeral of Ethiopia’s Meles

Posted September 2nd, 2012 at 2:20 pm (UTC-5)
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Thousands of mourners gathered Sunday along with many African leaders for the state funeral for Ethiopia’s longtime leader Meles Zenawi. Mr. Meles died in Belgium last month at the age of 57 following a lengthy illness. He ruled Ethiopia for more than 20 years. Sunday’s state funeral, in the capital, Addis Ababa, was attended by […]

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UNICEF: 1,600 Killed in Syria’s Civil War Last Week

Posted September 2nd, 2012 at 2:00 pm (UTC-5)
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The U.N. children’s fund UNICEF says Syria’s civil war killed 1,600 people last week, making it the deadliest seven-day period of the 18-month conflict. UNICEF spokesman Patrick McCormick said Sunday the death toll included some children, but he did not elaborate or say how he obtained the figure. Syrian opposition activists have been reporting daily […]

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Damascus Bombings Wound 4, Claimed by Rebels

Posted September 2nd, 2012 at 12:15 pm (UTC-5)
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Syrian state media say two bombs have exploded near a security compound in Damascus, wounding four people in an attack claimed by Free Syrian Army rebels. State media denounced Sunday’s bombings in the Abu Rummaneh district of the capital as an act of terrorism. In another attack, the Syrian government said a car bomb exploded […]

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Mourners Attend Funeral of Ethiopia’s Meles

Posted September 2nd, 2012 at 12:00 pm (UTC-5)
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Thousands of mourners gathered Sunday along with many African leaders for the state funeral for Ethiopia’s longtime leader Meles Zenawi. Mr. Meles died in Belgium last month the age of 57 following a lengthy illness. He ruled Ethiopia for more than 20 years. Sunday’s state funeral, in the capital, Addis Ababa, was attended by dozens […]

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Mourners Attend Funeral of Ethiopia’s Meles

Posted September 2nd, 2012 at 11:35 am (UTC-5)
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Under Mr. Meles, Ethiopia fought a border war with Eritrea and sent troops to Somalia to fight Islamist militants. Mr. Meles came to power in 1991 after his rebel alliance, the EPRDF (Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front) seized power from the country’s former Communist regime.

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