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  • Reactions from Ghana on Obama visit

    Reactions from Ghana on Obama visit

    July 19, 2009

    ACCRA, Ghana -- Nearly one week after President Barack Obama’s visit to Ghana, a sense of excitement and expectation remains in the air here. This past Monday, July 13, a day after Obama’s weekend visit, the...

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  • Couple covered by over 10,000 bees

    Couple covered by over 10,000 bees

    July 19, 2009 By Xinhua News Agency

    (Xinhua) The couple of beekeepers Li Wenhua (C, front) and Yan Hongxia, are enshrouded with over 10,000 bees, by using the queen bee as a bait, to showcase their familiarity and intimacy with the bee and...

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  • Thief steals unlicensed cab, gets caught

    Thief steals unlicensed cab, gets caught

    July 18, 2009

    BEIJING, July 9 -- A man was taken into custody this weekend for allegedly stealing a vehicle operating as an unlicensed cab in Beijing's Haidian area. The thief thought the vehicle owner would never report the...

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  • Zelaya gives coup leaders ultimatum

    Zelaya gives coup leaders ultimatum

    July 18, 2009 By Morning Star

    The mediator in Honduras's political crisis is looking increasingly discredited after proposing further talks between the ousted president and the leader of the right-wing coup. Costa Rican President Oscar Arias has scheduled the further talks to...

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  • US pulling out from Manta military base in Ecuador

    US pulling out from Manta military base in Ecuador

    July 18, 2009

    Quito, Jul 17 (Prensa Latina) The United States stopped Friday its operations at the Manta military base, on the Ecuadorian coast, and started the process for its definitive withdrawal from that military camp, occupied since 1999....

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