American aid worker killed near Kenya Somalia border
Deena Umbarger, 35, an American aid worker and UMCOR consultant from Sumner Washington, was shot and killed Saturday at a restaurant near the Kenya Somalia border. A Yale Law School graduate who joined UMCOR in 1997, she had worked in Georgia and then moved to Kenya in October.
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Somalia
U.S
Deena Umbarger
United Methodist Committee On Relief
Chris Scharf
Umbarger
Sumner
Wash
Yale Law School
UMCOR
Georgia
Hard-liners close new year festival at Takht-e Jamshid
Revelers arriving for Nowruz at Takht-e Jamshid, 400 miles south of Tehran, were turned away as hard-liners cited a pre Islamic past. The festival drew about 3,000 on opening day but Monday shows were canceled amid a power struggle between moderates allied with President Khatami and hard-liners around Ayatollah Khamenei. Separately, three North Korean defectors, Ryoo Kyong Chul, Kim Soon Hwa, and Lee Kwan Ho, sought asylum in South Korea, increasing the year’s total to 23. They entered via a third country, not named, per NIS.
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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Nowruz
Takht-e- Jamshid
Takht-e-Jamshid
Tehran
Persepolis
South Korea
National Intelligence Service
Ryoo Kyong Chul
Kim Soon Hwa
Lee Kwan Ho
Lee
China
North Korea
Clinton mulls Senate run during Cairo clinic stop
First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, on a 12 day trip through Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia, said she has made many calls about a Senate bid from New York but has not decided. She emphasized a continued public role and focus on women’s opportunities, children's welfare, and global democracy ties.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton
U.S. Senate
White House
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
New York
Hosni Mubarak
United States
Egypt
Wahiba el- Sayed
Abdel
Clinton
Monica Lewinsky
Mrs. el- Sayed
Bdel
Wahiba el Sayed
Khan al Khalili
Malaysians Kill Own Hogs to Contain Virus
Pig farmers in Negri Sembilan beat and bury animals as government slaughters thousands of pigs to curb a deadly viral outbreak blamed for more than 50 deaths. CDC experts head to Malaysia to establish lab facilities while soldiers shoot pigs and authorities warn of precautions for those in contact with infected animals.
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Malaysia
Centers For Disease Control and Prevention
Negri Sembilan
Abdul Aziz Mahmood
Abdul Aziz
Southeast Asia
Singapore
Thailand
AU Priore
Sungai Nipah
Nairobi Embassy Set for 90 Day Demolition Project
Engineers begin a 90 day plan to demolish the bomb damaged U S Embassy building in central Nairobi. The five story structure is unsafe and will be removed in sections by crane starting at the top floor. The blast killed 201 Kenyans and 12 Americans and injured over 5400. A nearby Ufundi House collapsed.
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Kenya
U.S
Chris Scharf
Ufundi House
Tanzania
Roger Currier
Washington
Currier
American teen indicted in Israel for Maryland murder
An 18-year-old American, Samuel Sheinbein, was indicted in Israel on a first degree murder charge for the Montgomery County Maryland murder of Alfredo Tell o Jr. in 1997. He and Aaron Needle allegedly dismembered and burned the body before fleeing to Israel. The trial in Israel will follow extradition ruling, with 25 Maryland witnesses listed.
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Isragl
Maryland
Israel
High Court
Samuel Sheinbein
Aaron Needle
Alfredo ‘Tello Jr
Montgomery County
Sheinbein
Tello
Needle
U.S
Sara Sirota
Hadassah Naor
Associated Press
David Libai
United States
Libai
Sirota
Sol
Palestine
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