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CAIRO March 13, 2010 - At least 24 people were injured in northern Egypt in fighting between Christians and Muslims over land, officials told state media on Saturday.
Coptic Christians and Muslims fought in Marsa Matrouh governorate after the christians built a fence around land next to a building run by El Shahedeen church.
Muslim residents of the village objected to the fence, which blocked a main road. Three homes and two cars were set on fire during the fight.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE Feb 27, 2010 Laura Silsby and Charisa Coulter, the two U.S. missionaries still in jail in Haiti will not be freed at least until Tuesday.
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PARIS Feb 16, 2010 France knowingly exposed its soldiers to nuclear explosions in Algeria in the 1960s to study the effect of radiation on humans. Le Parisien newspaper reported this today, citing secret government papers.
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JAKARTA Feb 11, 2010 Antasari Azhar, Indonesia’s former anti-graft chief was today sentenced to 18 years in jail for his role in the murder of Nasrudin Zulkarnaen, a businessman.
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BEIJING Feb 11, 2010 A Chinese court on Thursday upheld an 11-year prison sentence for leading dissident Liu Xiaobo for writings that called for multi-party democracy. The Beijing Intermediate People’s Court had handed down the sentence in December last year.
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NEW YORK Feb 10, 2010 The New York State Senate has voted to throw out Hiram Monserrate, a senator found guilty of misdemeanour and assault. It is the first expulsion in almost a century, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.
It said the Senate voted 53 to 8 late on Tuesday night to immediately remove Monserrate, a Democrat from Queens. He was charged in October for dragging his girlfriend down the hallway of his apartment building.
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GAZA Feb 8, 2010 Hamas has failed to pay the January salaries of many of the 34,000 Palestinian civil servants and security men in the Gaza Strip.
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CAIRO Feb 8, 2010 Egyptian security forces have held senior members of the Muslim Brotherhood today, sources close to the group said.
Security forces detained 20 other members of the Brotherhood on Saturday and Sunday. The Brotherhood called it a crackdown before elections this year.
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BEIJING Feb 03, 2010 Charles Zhang said that China could not produce global media giants as long as the government had strict controls over the media and film industry.
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SEOUL Feb 03, 2010 North Koreans are starving to death and unrest is growing in the country. This is due to a currency revaluation last year that crippled the economy.
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