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EU Selects New President(0)
November 20, 2009
The European Union has chosen its first full-time president - Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy. Leaders of the 27-member bloc also chose a woman for the second top job - British commissioner Catherine Ashton, who will be the EU’s new foreign policy chief.
Ethiopia Convicts 27 in Coup Plot
An Ethiopian court has convicted 27 people accused of conspiring to create public havoc in an attempt to bring down Prime Minister Meles Zenawi’s government. Some of the defendants could face the death penalty.
At Least 19 Reported Dead in Pakistan Blast
Pakistani officials say a suicide bomber killed at least 19 people outside a court building in Peshawar, in the latest attack to strike the northwestern city.
Media Rights Groups Call for Probe Into Shooting of VOA Reporter in Puntland
International media rights groups are expressing shock and concern over reports a journalist working for VOA’s Somali Service in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland may have been deliberately shot by the police.
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