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PORT-AU-PRINCE — Rioting has spread to the Haitian capital where hundreds of people clashed with UN troops they blamed for a worsening cholera epidemic.
A cargo bomb plot hatched in Yemen put into question the fate of 57 of its citizens who remain detained at the US-run prison at Guantanamo Bay, rights observers said.
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90 of Guantanamo's 174 inmates have been cleared for release, including the 57 Yemenis, who nevertheless remain imprisoned at the camp
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President Barack Obama, who vowed that he would close the Guantanamo detention camp by January 2010, missed that deadline and has failed to set a new one.
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"ENTEBBE, Uganda — Four African countries on Friday signed a new treaty on the equitable sharing of the Nile waters despite strong opposition from Egypt and Sudan who have the lion's share of the river waters."
Global warming could reduce the range of plant biodiversity by more than nine percent by century's end, and poor countries least to blame for the problem will be worst hit, a study published on Wednesday says.
Twenty-four people were injured in clashes between Christians and Muslims in northern Egypt, a security official said on Saturday.
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Fighting broke out in the northwestern province of Mersa Matrouh when Muslim residents began to hurl stones at Christian construction workers they thought were building a church.
Dubai police said Tuesday they are seeking the arrest of Israel's prime minister and the head of its spy agency over the murder of a top Hamas militant in a hotel room of the Gulf city-state.
"A proposal to create a pan-Arab television monitor is a "disturbing" move that could could lead to censorship of broadcasts critical of Arab governments, a media watchdog said on Saturday."
"EL-TOR, Egypt — Egyptian police used tear-gas and rubber bullets on Wednesday to disperse residents of a Sinai town devastated by floods as they protested against lack of government aid"
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Nearly 1,000 residents of the town used their trucks to block the main road to the resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh, burning tyres and throwing stones at police.
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"What are we going to do with 100 pounds (18 dollars) and a cheap blanket?" asked Sheikh Mohammed Abu Salama, a Bedouin resident of the town.
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