WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President Barack Obama and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon have issued a joint call for global coordination to help the world’s poorest nations weather the economic crisis.
 
Obama met Ban at the White House for the first time since becoming president, amid widening concern over the impact of the crisis on developing [...]

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By Allison Jones, The Canadian Press
BRAMPTON, Ont. - Canada will emerge from the global recession before any other country and in a stronger economic position than ever, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Tuesday as his government aggressively moved to sell its fiscal plan.
The rosy picture Harper painted of the ability to not only recover but [...]

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By Nelson Banya
 
HARARE (Reuters) - President Robert Mugabe joined the mourning for Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s wife on Tuesday and called on Zimbabweans to end violence and support his old rival in rebuilding the shattered country.
Mugabe, who formed a unity government with Tsvangirai in February, told hundreds of mourners at a memorial service in Harare [...]

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By LANCE HORNBY
Some NBAers wouldn’t like to be plopped into the Raptors sneakers’ these days. But not late-season pickup Pops Mensah-Bonsu.
“This is a blessing,” he said yesterday, the last Toronto player to leave an intense workout at the ACC.
“You think that four months ago, I was in Spain, not knowing where my next cheque was [...]

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In a statement issued by the President of Halala USA Pius Mwemba he described Prof Wajackoyah as a self-seeking individual out to promote his political ambitions contrary to what Halala as an organization seeks to accomplish.In a statement issued by the President of Halala USA Pius Mwemba he described Prof Wajackoyah as a self-seeking individual [...]

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Tsvangirai’s wife mourned
BY AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE
HARARE- Hundreds of mourners on Tuesday packed a Harare church for a funeral service for Premier Morgan Tsvangirai’s wife, who died in a car crash that has cast a shadow over Zimbabwe’s unity government.
The crowd spilled out the Methodist church in Harare, with President Robert Mugabe and a raft [...]

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Varsity students stage unusual protest in city
By Standard Reporter
University of Nairobi students staged an unusually peaceful protest against extrajudicial killings by police on Tuesday.
Unlike previous demos in which they often stoned cars and looted property, Tuesday’s protest was peaceful. Police, rather than attacking the students, did the unusual thing – clearing the roads for the [...]

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