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In November, protests erupted in the Oromia region over a proposed plan to expand the municipal boundary of the capital, Addis Ababa, which some believed would lead to the displacement of farmers
Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai says part found recently by American in Mozambique is now in Malaysia for safekeeping
Aung San Suu Kyi's NLD won a November 8 general election by a landslide, gaining an overwhelming majority in both houses of parliament
Officials say it's the most widespread non-hurricane flooding the Louisiana has experienced; National Guard crews in a rescue mode, distributing sandbags
Band's adult lyrics and funk-pop tunes are a far cry from his teen boy band days in the Disney Channel pop rock trio, The Jonas Brothers
Rapper, whose name is Curtis Jackson III, went to court this week to answer for Instagram photos he posted showing stacks of cash
The country's rising nationalist party - AFD - is likely to make parliamentary that could complicate efforts to form state governments
Riau provincial government declared a state of emergency on Monday after fires in at least three districts began spreading rapidly
Julio Guzman's candidacy was voided over claims the mechanism by which his party chose him violated its own internal rules
Former president Lula is accused of unduly benefitting from a real estate scheme that adversely affected thousands of Brazilian families
Final approval expected later this month of bill leading toward referendum on Nicolas Maduro's presidency
Republican presidential front-runner stakes out uncompromising positions on Asia policy that are making foreign policy observers here and overseas uneasy
Vulnerable to exploitation and shunned by local residents, thousands of day laborers typically work on three- to six-month contracts with little or no benefits, living in makeshift company barracks
Shinzo Abe promises to rush decontamination work in irradiated areas near Fukushima nuclear plant, pushes ambitious plan to reopen damaged coastal railway by 2020 and triple tourism in north
Head CEO Johan Eliasch says Sharapova has made 'a manifest error' by her continued use of meldonium after it became a banned substance this year but does not believe she did so to enhance her performance or tried to gain an unfair advantage
Foreign minister says his country will challenge findings of international human rights commission expected to deliver scathing assessment of democratic backsliding in Poland
Ahmed Abdelqader had told AP in December that he had been receiving death threats from the IS since the murder of his brother, Ibrahim Abdelqader, and of Fares Hamadi in Sanliurfa in October
Initial reports said a joint Pakistani special forces operation rescued 33-year-old Shahbaz Taseer, who was held for five years by Islamic militants
Officials hope to have PT-305 back on the water in about a year, carrying tourists, history buffs on Louisiana's Lake Pontchartrain, where it was first tested in 1944
World Anti-Doping Agency president Dick Pound says Maria Sharapova could face a ban of up to four years unless she can prove mitigating circumstances to explain her positive test for meldonium at the Australian Open in January
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