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Daily News Roundup – 16 January 2013

  Africa Foreigners ‘abducted’ by Algerian Islamists Islamist militants in eastern Algeria are reported to have abducted several foreigners in what the British Foreign Office says is a “terrorist incident”.  At least ...
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Daily News Roundup – 15 January 2013

  Africa France to deploy more troops to Mali French President Francois Holland says more troops are to be sent to Mali to support the 750 already in the country fighting an Islamist insurgency.  Mr Holland said the latest ov...
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Daily News Roundup – 14 January 2013

  Africa Mali Islamists capture new town amid French intervention Islamist fighters in Mali have seized a town in government-controlled territory amid a military intervention by France.  Though French Defence Minister Jean-Yv...
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Drugs, video games and mental health: what is and isn’t relevant to the gun control debate

The pro-gun lobby in the United States likes to say “guns don’t kill people; people kill people”.  This is true, but irrelevant: the point is that people who want to kill other people find it much easier to do so when th...
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Daily News Roundup – 9 January 2013

  Africa Nato forces needed in Mali, says African Union The African Union’s chairman Thomas Boni Yayi has called for Nato to send forces to Mali to help fight militant Islamists who have captured the north.  The Malian conf...
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Daily News Roundup – 8 January 2012

  Africa Kenya hunts ivory poachers after family of 11 elephants killed Kenya’s Wildfire Service says it is pursuing a gang of poachers suspected of killing an entire family of 11 elephants.  The family was gunned down on S...
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Daily News Roundup – 7 January 2013

  Asia Chinese newspaper journalists in rare strike Journalists at a major Chinese paper, the Southern Weekly, have gone on strike in a rare protest against censorship.  The row was sparked last week when the paper’s Ne...
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Daily News Roundup – 2 January 2013

  Africa M23 rebels placed under UN sanctions The UN Security Council imposed sanctions on leaders of the M23 rebel army in the Democratic Republic of Congo on New Year’s Eve.  Under the measures, those linked to the group ...
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Daily News Roundup – 24 December 2012

  Africa Egypt set to declare result of constitution referendum Egypt is due to announce the official results of a referendum on a controversial draft constitution.  Early unofficial results suggest more than 60% of voters sa...
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