Reuters – Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo said on Saturday his efforts to end fighting in Congo were going fairly well and that President Joseph Kabila had not given conditions for talks with the rebels.
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AP – Prince Charles’ office says Rod Stewart will headline a star-studded bash for the prince’s birthday.
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AFP – Pakistan announced Saturday it will receive a loan of at least 7.6 billion dollars from the International Monetary Fund, the first rescue in Asia by the Fund since the financial crisis hit the globe.
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AP – A senior aide to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki says Iraq and the U.S. are now in agreement over a final draft of a security pact.
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AFP – Air France passengers faced cancellations and delays on Saturday as a strike by pilots went into a second day, but with a glimmer of hope the union may call off its action after consultations.
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AP – Palestinian medics say two Palestinians have been killed in the northern Gaza Strip.
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AFP – A Briton has been sentenced to three months in jail in Dubai after a court found him guilty of beating his wife and threatening to kill her, a newspaper reported on Saturday.
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AFP – Around 100 supporters of Taiwan’s former president Chen Shui-bian on Saturday rallied outside a detention centre in Taipei where he is being held on corruption allegations.
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AP – Pakistan’s top finance official says the International Monetary Fund has agreed “in principle” to lend it $7.6 billion to avert an economic crisis.
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AP – A U.N. special envoy will meet with the president of Congo Saturday to try to end the fighting between army and rebels since August that has displaced 250,000 people in the country’s east.
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