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Breaking News Wed, 16 May 2012
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A glass of clean drinking  water.
Africa   Environment   Health   Photos   Wikipedia: Water  
 Business Day 
More drinking water meets global standard — report
| CAPE TOWN — The quality of drinking water in South Africa has improved significantly in the past year, with a "blue drop" score nationally of 87,6% — 15 percentage points higher than the nationa... (photo: WN / Priya Dashini)
In this Friday, Dec. 30, 2011 photo, people shop in a market in Fallujah, 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqis are again segregating themselves along sectarian lines, prompted by a political crisis pulling at the explosive Sunni-Shiite divide just weeks after the American withdrawal left Iraq to chart its own future. The numbers so far are small and not easy to track with precision, but anecdotal accounts and a rise in business at real estate agencies in Sunni neighborhoods reveal a Sunni community contemplating the worse-case scenario and acting before it's too late.
Mideast   Photos   Politics   Tunisia   Wikipedia: Iraq  
 Al Jazeera 
Iraq's sagging safety net
| In February 2011, with grassroots uprisings having toppled the governments of Tunisia and Egypt, unrest was swelling in Iraq as well. In response, the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ann... (photo: AP / Hadi Mizban)
Southern African countries collaborate on plans for climate research centre  The Guardian 
Southern African countries collaborate on plans for climate research centre
| Windhoek-based facility to open in August after South Africa, Angola, Botswana, Zambia and Namibia commit to project Sand dunes in Kunene, Namibia. Scientists believe southern Africa will be particu... (photo: EC / EC)
African   Angola   Climate   Photos   Research   Wikipedia: Angola  
Top Stories
Alexis Tsipras, head of the Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) exits the Presidential Palace after his meeting with Greek President Karolos Papoulias, to formally take the mandate to form a coalition government in Athens, Tuesday, May 8, 2012. Al Jazeera
Why a repeat election is likely for Greece
| Political parties in Greece began a third and final attempt on Friday to form a government. Coalition talks have, so far, foundered on the fact that last Sunday’s... (photo: AP / Kostas Tsironis)
Election   Europe   Greece   Photos   Wikipedia: Greek legislative election, 2012  
David Peters, right, and Luke Whited, a gay couple who were joined in a civil union in their home state of Illinois, show their rings inside the Bourbon Pub, a gay bar, after being interviewed about President Obama's statement of support of gay marriage, in New Orleans, Wednesday, May 9, 2012. my SA
Gay marriage a distant dream around the world
| BANGKOK (AP) — China's government considered homosexuality a mental disorder until 2001. Mobs in Senegal have disinterred bodies of men they believe were gays and dra... (photo: AP / Gerald Herbert)
Activists   Gays   Marriage   Photos   Wikipedia: Homosexuality  
Death penalty opponents hold a sign outside the Governor's Mansion in Oklahoma City, Tuesday, May 1, 2012, to protest the execution of Michael Bascum Selsor. Al Jazeera
Anatomy of an American Execution
| In 2010, while making an episode of Fault Lines on the death penalty in the US, Josh Rushing interviewed death row inmate Michael Selsor. It was the only interview Sels... (photo: AP / Sue Ogrocki)
Crime   Justice   Photos   US   Wikipedia: Capital punishment in the United States  
Illegal gold mines imperil Peru's Amazon Al Jazeera
Illegal gold mines imperil Peru's Amazon
| Illegal gold miners in Peru are destroying thousands of hectares of the Amazon jungle that are home to some of the world's most important biologically diverse... (photo: UN / Devra Berkowitz)
Amazon   Mines   Peru   Photos   UN   Wikipedia: Amazon rainforest  
In this Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009, file photo, Iraq's vice President Tariq al-Hashemi speaks during a news conference in Baghdad, Iraq. Al Jazeera
Iraqi VP put on Interpol wanted list
| Tariq al-Hashemi, the Iraqi vice president, has been placed on an Interpol "red notice". | The notice pressures all 190 members of the Lyon-based police co-operative to... (photo: AP / Karim Kadim)
Business   Photos   Politics   Terrorism   Wikipedia: Tariq al-Hashimi  
Jacob G. Zuma, President of South Africa Business Day
Early prisoner release is fixing wrong problem
| THOUSANDS of offenders will be released from prison from next week following President Jacob Zuma ’s announcement last month that the government will grant a special ... (photo: World Economic Forum / Michael Wuertenberg)
Africa   Business   Photos   Prison   Wikipedia: Jacob Zuma  
Politics Economy & Business
- E-tolling threatens South Africa's credit rating
- Savannah View: Mandela’s Autopsy, Miranda’s Passion
- President Joyce Banda Names New Cabinet
- Goodlace a calm hand for Implats tiller
Helen Zille, Cape Town city mayor and leader of the main opposition party, center, outside the court in Cape Town, South Africa, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2007. Zille appeared briefly in court in connection with a demonstration outside the houses of alleged drug dealers. Police say that Zille is encouraging self-style vigilantes to take the law into their own hands, whilst her supporters say the demonstrations reflect growing fury that drug lords are targeting children and ravaging entire communities with impunity.
Zille speech interrupted
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- AGCO building distribution center in Johannesburg
- CNBC Africa Celebrates Five Years of Broadcasting
- Marching is for Everyone
- Independent Twitchy Over Possible Retrenchments
File - A woman and her children are pictured on the outskirts of Fertait, a village in Jonglei, South Sudan, burned down during the recent escalation of ethnic clashes in this area, 7 January, 2012.
Half of South Sudan facing food shortages, warns UN
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Culture & Religion Technology & Science
- E-tolling threatens South Africa's credit rating
- Savannah View: Mandela’s Autopsy, Miranda’s Passion
- AGCO building distribution center in Johannesburg
- Salvage of stranded trawler continues in Cape Town
Helen Zille, Cape Town city mayor and leader of the main opposition party, center, outside the court in Cape Town, South Africa, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2007. Zille appeared briefly in court in connection with a demonstration outside the houses of alleged drug dealers. Police say that Zille is encouraging self-style vigilantes to take the law into their own hands, whilst her supporters say the demonstrations reflect growing fury that drug lords are targeting children and ravaging entire communities with impunity.
Zille speech interrupted
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Empty land and grass with blue sky - climate - environment
Climate Change: Its Effects On Migration, Conflict In Northern Ghana
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Health AID
- Expert wants structures in place before Ghana’s GMO la
- E-tolling threatens South Africa's credit rating
- Calls for Zille’s resignation
- Zille ‘not fit to hold office’
Alexis Tsipras, head of the Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) exits the Presidential Palace after his meeting with Greek President Karolos Papoulias, to formally take the mandate to form a coalition government in Athens, Tuesday, May 8, 2012.
Why a repeat election is likely for Greece
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- Warlord says witnesses were bribed
- 30,000 Famine-Stricken Mogotio Residents Flee Homes
- Ministry Now Aids the Less Fortunate
- Poly Hosts HIV/Aids Awareness Campaign
Local health workers remove earth contaminated by lead from a family compound in the village of Dareta in Gusau, Nigeria Thursday, June 10, 2010. Foreign health workers and local volunteers are working to clean up villages affected by lead poisoning, after 160 people died and hundreds more fell sick.
Aid group slams Nigeria for lead poisoning
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