Angelina Jolie, who donned a blue cap and black shirt, was spotted smiling while listening to a Somali refugee in Dadaab refugee camp on the Kenya-Somali border in East Africa, on Saturday.
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In an address by Foreign Minister Franco Frattini at the G8 International Conference on Violence Against Women, Italy stated:
"So Italy has taken on a leading role in the global battle to combat violence against women. It is natural, therefore...
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Beijing/Jakarta/Brussels - After two decades of failed international approaches to Myanmar, Western countries and China must find better ways to work together to push for change in the military-ruled nation.
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LOGAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan - The Afghan National Security Forces have made improvements in Logar province and with the opening of the Maiwand Forward Logistics Element, the ANSF will be better supplied to conduct military operations.
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By Luca Bonsignore
Israel’s joining the exclusive family of F-35 Lightning II operators seems to be delayed once again due to major unresolved issues between the Israeli government and the US Department of Defense.
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Household net worth advanced $141 billion to $5.6 trillion in the second quarter, after losing ground in the three previous quarters.
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NATO’s military committee, comprising military chief’s from the organisation’s 28 member states, meets in Lisbon from September 18-20 and could decide to redeploy the alliance’s Horn of Africa naval patrols, including ...
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Norway has taken over the leadership of the UN contact group which coordinates the measures to be taken in the fight against the problem of piracy off the coast of Somalia and in the Gulf of Aden.
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International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) chairman Spyros M Polemis has called for new thinking on piracy. At a meeting of the ICS Executive Committee Tuesday (8 September) Piracy ICS members “expressed their continuing appreciation ...
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Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez announced that the country will soon take delivery of the first batch of Russian short-range missiles with a range of approximately 300 kilometres (186 miles).
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