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August 14, 2009
There are plenty of reasons to be upset about what's going on in the Congo. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's angry response to a student who asked her what her husband thought about a matter of local importance is not one of them. The United Nations reports that there have been 200,000 acts of sexual violence in the Congo since 1998, 65 percent against children. Since January, more than half of the thousands of rapes reported were perpetrated by the Congolese army, according to Human Rights Watch.
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By FROM SUN NEWS SERVICES | November 20, 2008
Congo rebels withdraw from front lines RWINDI, Congo: Rebels in Congo pulled hundreds of fighters back from several front-line positions as promised yesterday in what the United Nations said was a welcome step toward brokering peace in the volatile nation. Rebel leader Laurent Nkunda told U.N. envoy Olusegun Obasanjo over the weekend that he was committed to a cease-fire and U.N. peace efforts. Rebels announced Tuesday that their fighters would immediately withdraw 25 miles from hot spots north of Goma to prevent further fighting.
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By FROM SUN NEWS SERVICES | November 10, 2008
Headphones interfere with heart devices NEW ORLEANS: A new study indicates that headphones can interfere with heart devices such as a pacemaker or an implanted defibrillator. "Headphones contain magnets, and some of these magnets are powerful," said the study's leader, Dr. William Maisel, a cardiologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and a consultant to the Food and Drug Administration. "The headphone interaction applies whether or not the headphones are plugged in to the music player and whether or not the music player is on or off."
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By From Sun news services | November 5, 2008
Fears stir that Congo violence will spread GOMA, Congo: Congo's warring rivals traded accusations yesterday that Angola, Zimbabwe and Rwanda are mobilizing forces to fight in Congo, and the prime minister flew into this besieged city to assess weeks of fighting that have displaced a quarter-million people. The accusations of foreign involvement, reminiscent of a disastrous 1998-2002 war that drew in eight African nations, stoked fears of a wider conflict in this mineral-rich nation. Prime Minister Adolphe Muzito arrived in Goma just before dusk yesterday with half his Cabinet and met with U.N. envoy Alan Doss and U.N. peacekeeping chief Alain Le Roy as well as local officials.
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By FROM BALTIMORE SUN NEWS SERVICES | September 23, 2008
Car hits Israeli soldiers, injuring 13; driver shot JERUSALEM: A driver plowed a BMW into a group of soldiers at a busy intersection near Jerusalem's Old City late yesterday, injuring 13 of them before he was shot to death, Israeli police and the rescue service said. Jerusalem police commander Ilan Franco said a soldier in the group killed the driver, who was not immediately identified. Franco said he was a Palestinian resident of east Jerusalem who apparently acted alone. Israel TV said the car was registered to a resident of Jabel Mukaber, an Arab village inside the city limits.
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By Andrew Kipkemboi | April 18, 2008
The militia of young men raided a village and took away a woman after peeling off the child that was strapped on her back. They then frog-marched her to a nearby bush where, in front of her husband and older children, they raped and then killed her. This is one of the tales from the Democratic Republic of Congo, where war is an enduring fact of life. Dr. Denis Mukwege, the director and chief of obstetrics and gynecology at Panzi Hospital in Bukavu in eastern Congo, has heard of, and sometimes witnessed, such heartrending scenes.
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April 6, 2008
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NEWS
April 9, 2007
Exhibit `Panama' paintings Go see Panama: Paintings cre ated in the Congo aesthetic tra ditions developed and practiced at Taller Portobelo in Portobelo at Sub-Basement Artist Studi os, 118 N. Howard St. in the Atrium at Market Center. The gallery is open today by ap pointment only. Call 410-659-6950 or subbasementartiststudios.com.
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By Scott Calvert | April 1, 2007
Kinshasa, Congo -- Under the swirling lights at the nightclub L'Atmosphere, Congolese music's hottest new star is in full swing. "This love was like a novel by Shakespeare," croons Fally Ipupa as his backup singers harmonize and the single-plucked guitars run circles around each other. "You turn it into one by Daniel Dafoe/ I stay isolated like Robinson Crusoe." Fally, as everyone calls him, has a weakness for Americana. His hat of choice is a New York Yankees cap. His jeans ride low in belated emulation of the boxers-baring hip-hop style.
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By Scott Calvert | March 25, 2007
UNICEF permitted interviews with the children in this story only on condition that their real names not be used since they remain at risk of being targeted by militant groups. BUKAVU, Democratic Republic of the Congo -- The day his childhood ended, he was a 12-year-old boy playing cards with friends in his village. Then five gun-toting men appeared. As horrified parents looked on, the men marched the crying, barefoot boys single file into the world of child soldiering. Hers ended when she was just 10. Marauding soldiers had killed her uncle and scores of others in her village; they were looting and, she says, "doing everything."