Burundia s parliament on Saturday adopted a new set of laws abolishing the death penalty for the first time in the troubled central African country.
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Maybe fewer languages would be better! Most of the world’s seven thousand languages will no longer be spoken by the end of this century.
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Jan. 27, 2009 a ‘ Gallery St. Thomas presents local scenes in oil by Aphrodite. There will be an artist opening and reception held from 5-8 p.m., on Friday, Jan.
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After a sleepless night of earthquake tremors and goat calls in the muggy heat at a hostel in Kigali, Rwanda, I hustled to the nearest hotel with a poolside lounge, comfy beds and hot showers.
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Feb. 24, 2009 – Pistarckle Theater presents “Jesus Christ, Superstar,” the Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber groundbreaking musical directed by Marc Fellner.
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Feb. 19, 2009 – Dockside Bookshop will host St. Croix author Anne Thurland, who has published her first book “Jens Larsen Photo Collection, St.
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The expanding war in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern provinces is a bitter reminder that complex problems cannot be fixed with good intentions and inspiring rhetoric.
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Hungry, frightened Congolese refugees pleaded for protection from marauding fighters on Sunday while foreign governments discussed aid but hesitated over sending more troops.
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A United Nations aid convoy protected by UN peacekeepers will head into a rebel-held zone of east Congo on Monday to try to reach tens of thousands of civilians displaced by fighting, the U.N. said on Sunday.
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As Americans prepare to vote, Gallup Polls conducted in 2007 and 2008 reveal that a median of 41% of citizens across 134 countries worldwide have confidence that elections in their own countries are honest, while a median of 47% do not.
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