Fatah Holds First Conference in 20 Years in West Bank
President Mahmoud Abbas opened Fatah’s 20 year late congress in Bethlehem with 2000 delegates from around the world choosing a new platform. He framed resistance as peaceful protests and reaffirmed a goal of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as capital. Hamas’s restricted attendance highlighted long standing tensions as Fatah maintains West Bank control.
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Bas
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Israel
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Tayseer Nasrallah
Nablus
Lebanon
Clinton tours Kenya with push for reform and graft limits
Hillary Clinton arrives in Nairobi on a seven nation Africa tour urging Kenya to curb graft and implement post election reform. She meets President Kibaki and Prime Minister Odinga amid concerns over the Annan brokered deal and a disputed 2007 vote that sparked violence.
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Raila Odinga
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Yushchenko poisoning linked to lab made dioxin study says
A Lancet online report states the dioxin found in Viktor Yushchenko in 2004 was so pure it was likely manufactured in a laboratory. The study notes the toxin level was over 50 000 times normal and notes its lethal type was TCDD used in Agent Orange.
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Viktor Yushchenko
Lancet
Yushchenko
John Emsley
Department of Chemistry
Cambridge University
Ukraine
Kiev
Jean Saurat
Gana the gorilla gives birth again at German zoo
At Allwetter Zoo in Muenster a 12 year old female gorilla named Gana has a healthy new daughter born early Sunday. The mother appeared joyful and the birth follows her public mourning last year for Claudia who died at three months from an intestinal infection. The zoo may name the baby Claudia and asked Claudia Kleinert to be godmother. Gana’s first child from 2007 now lives at Stuttgart zoo.
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Germany
Berlin
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Zuehlke
Claudia
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Stuttgart
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