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Opposition party supporters hold a poster calling for the release of Roy Bennet, outside Mutare Magistrates courts, where Roy Bennet, treasurer of the main opposition party and ministerial nominee was meant to appear in court Monday, Feb. 16, 2009. Zimbabwean police no longer plan treason charges against a longtime opposition politician appointed to the unity government, the lawmaker's party said Sunday. The Movement for Democratic Change party reported earlier that police said Roy Bennett, the party's nominee to be deputy agriculture minister, would be accused of treason, which carries the death penalty. The party said police revised that Sunday, saying Bennett faces a weapons charge ins
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 The Star 
Treason trial of Zimbabwe PM ally adjourned to Jan
| HARARE (Reuters) - The trial of a top ally of Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on terrorism charges has been adjourned to January next year after a key prosecution witness failed to attend ... (photo: AP / Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)
Demonstrators wave Turkish flags during a protest in front of the Silivri prison in Silivri, west of Istanbul, Turkey, Monday, Oct. 20, 2008. A Turkish court began hearing a case against 86 people accused of conspiring to overthrow Turkey's Islamic-oriented government, but quickly adjourned when overcrowding in the courtroom hampered proceedings. Those on trial for alleged involvement in a shadowy nationalist group and of plotting an armed uprising include a retired general, the leader of a small leftist and nationalist party, a newspaper editor, a best-selling author and a former university dea
Diplomacy   Mideast   Photos   Politics   Turkey  
 The New York Times 
Turkey's Shifting Diplomacy
| GLOBAL VIEWPOINT / TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES - While the United States and Europe have been struggling to find a path forward in the Israel-Palestine conflict, Afghanistan and Iran, the strategic groun... (photo: AP / Murad Sezer)
Charlize Theron  The Examiner 
Charlize Theron's charity builds soccer fields in Africa before 2010 World Cup
| Actress Charlize Theron is giving back to her homeland by donating soccer fields to Afria in honor of the 2010 World Cup. | Says the Daily Star, 34-year-old Theron has revealed that her Africa Outre... (photo: Creative Commons / )

Actress   Africa   Charity   Photos   Soccer  
Cherie Blair, wife of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, speaks during the launch of a Global Task Force on Water and Sanitation at UNICEF House in New York, Monday, Jan. 22, 2007.  The Daily Beast 
Gaddafi Jr.'s Shooting Party
| Britain exploded this week with revelations that a top Labour minister and Cherie Blair went pheasant shooting with the Libyan dictator’s son. Venetia Thompson on the latest fallout from the a... (photo: AP / Kathy Willens)
Cherie   Labour   Libyan   Photos   Revelations  
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Actress Charlize Theron arrives at the Virgin Unite Rock the Kasbah Gala on Thursday Oct. 23, 2008, in Los Angeles. Newstrack India
Theron's charity builds football fields in Africa ahead of World Cup
| London, Nov 27 (ANI): South African actress Charlize Theron has revealed that her charity is raising cash to build football fields all over Africa in honour of the 2010... (photo: AP / Chris Pizzello)
Africa   Charity   Football   Photos   World  
Cheap toys for sale at the mall - Bargain Nation
Economy, Services, Commodities and Prices
| How safe are the toys? | As Christmas draws near, most shops have already begun displaying and selling toys and decorations of the occasion. | However, Natcof is expres... (photo: WN / Yolanda Leyba)
Christmas   Market   Photos   Plastic   Toys  
The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh and his wife, Smt. Gursharan Kaur arrives at the Piarco International Airport, to attend the CHOGM Summit, in Port of Spain on November 26, 2009. Newstrack India
Manmohan Singh arrives in Trinidad for CHOGM
| Port of Spain, Nov.27 (ANI): The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, arrived on Thursday afternoon from Washington to attend the attend the three-day Commonwealth Heads... (photo: PIB of India)

India   Manmohan Singh   Photos   Politics   Trinidad  
Sweet potato brazil Penn Live
Flavor of the week
| Sweet Potatoes Exposed | Alias: Don't call them yams! The misnomer has been perpetuated for decades. A yam is a nickname for a rough, scaly root from Africa, known as t... (photo: GFDL / Carioca)
Fact   Family   Photos   Potatoes   Related  
Namibian Herero women walk past a poster of their ruling Swapo party presidential candidate Hifikepunye Pohamba, during the election rally in Windhoek, Namibia, Saturday, Nov. 13, 2004. Al Jazeera
Namibia set to hold elections
| Namibians are set to vote in an election which is expected to return the longtime ruling party to power. | But Friday's vote may see the party's hold on the southe... (photo: AP / Themba Hadebe)

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