At least 36 have died in clashes between Arab nomads and southerners near Sudan’s north-south border, leaders in the Abyei region said on Monday.
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The flooding of the Vaal River has caused considerable crop damages along its banks in three provinces.
Jared Lee Loughner was suspended from college and had been in trouble with the police. Yet he could buy a gun and kill six people.
Thousands of people were urged to leave the outskirts of Brisbane — Australia’s third-largest city — on Tuesday, as flood waters raced eastwards.
After the shootings in Arizona, US left and right are at odds over effects of toxic politics.
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Tzipi Livni’s Kadima party is to oppose legislation to investigate funding of civil and human rights groups in Israel.
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Tunisia President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali blamed weekend rioting that left at least 14 people dead on "gangs of thugs".
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An Iranian human rights lawyer who has worked with Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi, has been jailed for 11 years.
Argentinian Lionel Messi won the Ballon d’Or for the second successive year, beating his more favoured Barcelona team-mates Iniesta and Xavi
A college dropout made his first court appearance on Monday on five federal charges, including the attempted assassination of Gabrielle Giffords.