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Beirut (Lebanon) (AFP) – At a shop nestled in a busy, crowded Beirut district, Hasan El-Makary is weighing out containers of warm, fragrant mufataka, a traditional sweet in the Lebanese capital that is rarely found in stores. Traditional Beiruti dessert mufataka…
(Reuters) –Italian fashion designer Roberto Cavalli, known for his animal-print designs loved by showbusiness stars, has died at the age of 83, his company said. Cavalli, who founded his label in the early 1970s, had been ill for some time.…
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Our species arose in Africa more than 300,000 years ago, with the oldest-known Homo sapiens fossils discovered at a site in Morocco called Jebel Irhoud, located between Marrakech and the Atlantic coast. But the…
(Reuters) – Sudan, which has been in the grip of a bloody power struggle between the army and a paramilitary group for three weeks, has a history of civil wars, military takeovers and rebellions. The commanders of the army…
By Aidan Lewis and Lisa Barrington CAIRO (Reuters) – Military rivals locked in a conflict that erupted in Sudan on April 15 both courted foreign backing in the years leading up to the fighting. That support could now influence the…
Juba, (SUNA) – The South Sudan mediation committee for the Sudanese peace negotiation, announced that the signing of the amended matrix was postponed until Sunday, based on the Sudanese government’s request for the participation of the President of the Transitional…
