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US radio correspondent held in Ethiopia
A VOICE of America (VOA) correspondent and his translator were arrested yesterday in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa while covering an anti-government protest, the US government-funded broadcaster said.
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AP
VOA correspondent reported detained in Ethiopia
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Voice of America says it is investigating reports that a correspondent in Ethiopia's capital has been detained by authorities....
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UN
Ban welcomes announcement of talks resuming between Sudan and South Sudan
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today welcomed the announcement of the Governments of Sudan and South Sudan to resume talks in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, next week, under the auspices of the African Union High Level Implementation Panel
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Huffington Post
Peter Bosshard: World Bank to Fund Destructive Dam Through the Backdoor?
On June 21, the World Bank is expected to submit to its Board of Directors a credit of $684 million for a 1,000-kilometer-long transmission line from Ethiopia to Kenya. Strong evidence links this transmission line to the Gibe III Dam.
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BBC
Goalshy Bafana turn to Nomvethe
South Africa recall veteran striker Siyabonga Nomvethe for June's 2014 World Cup qualifiers against Ethiopia and Botswana.
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The Nation
Jennifer Lopez wants to adopt
New York (ES) Jennifer Lopez wants to adopt. She already has four-year-old twins with estranged husband Marc Anthony but after working with siblings who had been adopted from Ethiopia after their mother died, Jennifer is considering the ‘selfless act’. She told the Daily Mirror: “It’s funny because before the movie I never really thought about adoption, I just always ...
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The Nation
Etihad’s flights to Ethiopia
KARACHI- Etihad Airways will add the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, to its rapidly growing network in November 2012, says a press release. The airline will also start flying to the Indian city of Ahmedabad in the same month. The two new cities will expand the airline’s reach to 86 passenger and cargo destinations around the world.The new routes will each be served by an Airbus A320 ...
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The Nation
Etihad’s flights to Ethiopia
KARACHI- Etihad Airways will add the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, to its rapidly growing network in November 2012, says a press release. The airline will also start flying to the Indian city of Ahmedabad in the same month. The two new cities will expand the airline’s reach to 86 passenger and cargo destinations around the world.The new routes will each be served by an Airbus A320 ...
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The Nation
Etihad’s flights to Ethiopia
KARACHI- Etihad Airways will add the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, to its rapidly growing network in November 2012, says a press release. The airline will also start flying to the Indian city of Ahmedabad in the same month. The two new cities will expand the airline’s reach to 86 passenger and cargo destinations around the world.The new routes will each be served by an Airbus A320 ...
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New York Times
The Lede Blog: Using Terror Charges to Stifle Independent Reporting
Journalists in countries including Ethiopia, Turkey and Burundi are on trial in an increasingly disquieting use of terrorism laws by some governments to quash independent reporting and stifle dissent.
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China Daily
An alternative approach for African media
I recently read a New York Times opinion piece entitled "Africa's Free Press Problem" by Mohammed Keita and wondered which Africa he was writing about. Keita makes sweeping statements about the state of press freedom in Africa but ends up only citing the cases of Rwanda and Ethiopia.
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Times LIVE
Roy Padayachie dies in Addis Ababa
South African cabinet minister Roy Padayachie who has died in Ethiopia was attending a meeting of the African Peer Review Mechanism in Addis Ababa.
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Mail & Guardian
Roy Padayachie dies
Minister of public service and administration Roy Padayachie has died in Ethiopia, government spokesperson Jimmy Manyi said on Saturday.
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WSJ
Inside Ethiopia's Adoption Boom
Ethiopia has become one of the busiest adoption destinations in the world, thanks in part to loose controls that allow fast adoptions. While many adopted children thrive in loving homes, the State Department has cautioned that Ethiopia's lax oversight, mixed with poverty and cross-cultural misunderstanding, leaves room for abuse.
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physorg
Water treatments alone not enough to combat fluorosis in Ethiopia
Increased intake of dietary calcium may be key to addressing widespread dental health problems faced by millions of rural residents in Ethiopia's remote, poverty-stricken Main Rift Valley, according to a new Duke University-led study.
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White House
Statement by the Press Secretary on the Horn of Africa Humanitarian Crisis
In 2011, the worst drought in 60 years struck the Horn of Africa. The United Nations declared famine in six regions of Somalia, threatening the lives of over 250,000 Somalis, and requiring urgent humanitarian assistance for more than 13.3 million people in Ethiopia, Kenya and other parts of Somalia. The international community responded and famine conditions abated in January 2012. Neverth...
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American Scientist
At AAPA Meeting, a Fossil Show-and-Tell
The annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Portland last week featured an exhibition of plaster casts of skulls, bones and teeth of important members of the human family. The fossils included the partial skeletons of Lucy from Ethiopia; Australopithecus sediba from South Africa; and the fingernail-size sliver of bone of a new type of archaic human fro...
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New York Times
Letter: From Ethiopia’s Ambassador: Journalism in Africa
The ambassador of Ethiopia criticizes an Op-Ed article about press freedom in Africa.
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National Post
Sudan’s president Omar Hassan al-Bashir promises to teach South Sudan a ‘final lesson by force’
South Sudan accused Bashir of planning "genocide" and said it would fight to protect its people
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The Jerusalem Post
AJWS-funded project in Ethiopia wins prize
Greening project was one of the winners of this year’s Goldman Environmental Prize.
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Scientific American
Vanquishing "Mossy Foot" with Genetic Epidemiology and Shoes
In Fasil Tekola Ayele s native Ethiopia, the people call it mossy foot. Medical textbooks call it podoconiosis, non-filarial elephantiasis, or simply podo. The hideously deformed feet of podo result not from mosquito-borne parasitic worms, as does filarial elephantiasis, nor from bacteria, like leprosy. Instead, podo arises from an immune response to microscopic slivers of mineral that penet...
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Telegraph
Saving the condemned children of Ethiopia
In remote Ethiopia, where tribes still practise ritual infanticide, one man has made it his mission to save the children
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CNN
Disaster looms for people of Mali as country is split by revolt
Africa has seen some ugly divorces in recent times: Eritrea and Ethiopia, Sudan and South Sudan. Now Mali is threatened with partition as a rebellion flares in the north and political uncertainty grips the capital, Bamako. Mali's neighbors and western governments are looking on anxiously as drug traffickers and Islamist groups affiliated with al Qaeda take advantage of the vacuum -- in a region...
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Washington Post
Obama nominee for World Bank helm stumps for votes
In the short time span since Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim was nominated by President Obama to run the World Bank, he has hopscotched the world — eight countries in 13 days, from Ethiopia to India, from China back to Brazil. On Wednesday night he left for Moscow.
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Washington Post
Ethiopia’s Oromo diaspora uses Web to dissent, debate in absence of press freedom
There may be at least four different factions with varying viewpoints on whether the Oromo, the largest ethnic group in Ethiopia, should pursue the birth of an independent country or reform the existing Ethiopian state.
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Daily Mail
Mystery of why hyenas give up eating rubbish for Lent (but would the Church approve that they eat DONKEYS instead?)
Spotted yenas in Ethiopia switch from their usual unsavoury diet of rubbish before Easter and actually go hunting for fresh meat - in the form of local donkeys.
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Mail & Guardian
Where life is governed from above
If you are looking for God in Ethiopia, you won’t have to search too hard. He is everywhere, writes Mohammed Selman.
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Huffington Post
The Ethiopian Water Crisis By The Numbers (PHOTOS)
Of the 1 billion people worldwide who lack access to clean water and safe sanitation, approximately 75 million live in Ethiopia. With an average income of just over $100 a year per head, Ethiopia remains one of the world's poorest countries. The water crisis counts among the most significant factors in the perpetuation of the poverty in Ethiopia, with women and children spending up to six hou...
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Scientific American
Ancient Human Had Feet Like an Ape [Video]
A fossil discovered in Ethiopia suggests that humans' prehistoric relatives may have lived in the trees for a million years longer than was previously thought. [More]
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BBC
Fossils hint at mystery walker
The remains of a right foot belonging to a 3.4-million-year-old human ancestor are discovered in Ethiopia.
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Al Jazhera
Ethiopia to host AU-mediated Sudan talks
Officials from Sudan and South Sudan to meet in Addis Ababa on Thursday with view to end hostilities along border.
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Nature
Human evolution: Those feet in ancient times
A fossil foot found in Ethiopia suggests that human ancestors that walked on two feet and also ably climbed trees existed until 3.4 million years ago, adding evidence for locomotor diversity during early human evolution. See Article p.565
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The Guardian
Ethiopia seeks full investigation into suicide of maid beaten in Beirut
Housemaid Alem Dechasa killed herself after street attack that sparked outrage over treatment of migrant workers in LebanonEthiopia is lobbying Lebanon to investigate fully the death of an Ethiopian housemaid who killed herself after being beaten on the street in Beirut.Video footage of Alem Dechasa being attacked outside the Ethiopian consulate in Beirut was broadcast on Lebanese television tw...
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AP
Sado wins LA Marathon, Njoroge takes men's race
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) -- Fatuma Sado of Ethiopia won the Los Angeles Marathon women's race on Sunday, breaking her personal best by more than 2 minutes and earning a $100,000 gender challenge bonus....
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FT
Ethiopia sends troops into Eritrea
Move sparks fears of renewed conflict in Horn of Africa after Ethiopia blames its neighbour for the murder of five European tourists abducted by rebels
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National Post
The Perfect Runner: Film is a journey from sore knees to a race in the Rockies
Niobe Thompson is the Gemini-winning director of The Perfect Runner, a new CBC documentary that traces Thompson’s search for the ultimate running form from Siberia to Ethiopia to the gruelling Canadian Death Race. We caught up with him at his home in Edmonton
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Times of India
Gunmen kill 19 in bus attack, Ethiopia official says
An Ethiopian official says unknown gunmen in the country's southwest have killed 19 people in an attack on a public bus.
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Pravda
Russia gives away its children to foreigners generously
In 2011, 970 Russian children were taken to the U.S. for adoption. The larger number of children was adopted only from China and Ethiopia. Russia is one of the leading countries sending its children to foreign nationals. The widespread belief that mainly disabled children abandoned by their Russian foster parents are adopted is refuted by experts
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Amnesty International
Ethiopia: Human rights work crippled by restrictive law
Headline Title:
Ethiopia: Human rights work crippled by restrictive law
12 March 2012
A law in Ethiopia is crippling human rights work in the country, forcing organizations to cut programmes, close offices and lay off staff, according to an Amnesty International report publis...
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siliconindia
World Economic Forum:Ethiopia to Host
Ethiopia will host the World Economic Forum on Africa in capital Addis Ababa in May. Mekonnen Haddis, chief advisor to the deputy prime minister, and Elsie Kanza, director for Africa the World Economic Forum, made the announcement.
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omg
England's Finest Spoof 'Downton Abbey'
Every year, the world is treated to a smattering of sensational sketches thanks to Comic Relief -- a British charity founded in response to famine in Ethiopia -- which has provided us with Rowan Atkinson playing Dr. Who, a French & Saunders send up of Harry Potter and Ali G interviewing Posh & Becks.
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China Daily
China reaches out to Ethiopia
China is willing to import more marketable products from Ethiopia and encourage greater investment in Ethiopia, senior Chinese leader Jia Qinglin said.
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AP
South Sudan, Sudan fail to agree on oil dispute
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) -- A South Sudan official says negotiations to end an oil dispute between South Sudan and Sudan have failed....
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The Jerusalem Post
Court hears integration obstacles to Ethiopia aliya
Government seen as backtracking on commitments made in 2010.
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Irish Times
Costello to lobby for Irish UN seat
Minister of State for Development Joe Costello is to press Ireland's case for a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council during a five-day visit to Ethiopia this week.
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Irish Times
Costello to lobby for UN seat
Minister of State for Development Joe Costello is to press Ireland's case for a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council during a five-day visit to Ethiopia this week.
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Irish Times
Ethiopia suspend Bekele over training camps
Athletics:Double Olympic champion Kenenisa Bekele has been suspended indefinitely by the Ethiopian Athletics Federation following a row over training camps.
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Daily Mail
London 2012 Olympics: Ethiopia ban 35 athletes for missing training camp
Ethiopia have banned 35 athletes indefinitely and put their chances of competing at London 2012 in doubt. Olympic men's 5,000 and 10,000 metres champion Kenenisa Bekele is the most high profile name to be banned.
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Human Rights Watch
Ethiopia: Terrorism Verdict Quashes Free Speech
The Ethiopian Federal High Court on January 19, 2012, convicted three Ethiopian journalists, an opposition leader, and a fifth person under an anti-terrorism law that violates free expression and due process rights. The Ethiopian government should immediately drop the case, release the defendants, and investigate their allegations of torture in detention.
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The Sun
Brit survives as 5 killed in massacre
BRITON survives killing spree that left five tourists dead and two kidnapped in Ethiopia
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Daily Mail
Five western tourists killed and two kidnapped by gunman in Ethiopia
The group which included Austrian, Belgian, German, Hungarian and Italian nationals, was ambushed in the early hours of the morning in the arid north of the country.
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THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Tourists from five nations victims in deadly attack in Ethiopia
Five were killed, two wounded and two others kidnapped
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Irish Times
Gunmen kill five tourists in Ethiopia
ADDIS ABABA – Gunmen have killed five foreign tourists in Ethiopia’s remote northern Afar region after crossing into the Horn of Africa country from Eritrea, state television has said.
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THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Five tourists reported killed by rebels in Ethiopia
Attackers believed to be rebels with ties to archrival Eritrea
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USA Today
Report: 5 tourists killed by armed rebels in Ethiopia
Ethiopian state TV says 5 foreign tourists have been killed by armed rebels in Ethiopia's restive Afar region.
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Irish Times
Five tourists killed in Ethiopia
Gunmen have killed five foreign tourists in Ethiopia's remote northern Afar region, after crossing into the Horn of Africa country from neighbouring Eritrea, state television said today.
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Reuters
Ethiopia forcing thousands off land: U.S. rights group
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia is forcing tens of thousands of people off their land so it can lease it to foreign investors, leaving former landowners destitute and in some cases starving, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Tuesday.
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Irish Times
Ex-mayor to fight refugee status case
A MAN who was once the mayor of a city in Ethiopia and sought asylum here after being invited to a conference by South Dublin County Council has secured leave to bring a High Court challenge to a refusal to grant him refugee status.
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The Lancet
[Articles] Comparison of annual versus twice-yearly mass azithromycin treatment for hyperendemic trachoma in Ethiopia: a cluster-randomised trial
SummaryBackgroundIn trachoma control programmes, azithromycin is distributed to treat the strains of chlamydia that cause ocular disease. We aimed to compare the effect of annual versus twice-yearly distribution of azithromycin on infection with these strains.MethodsWe did a cluster-randomised trial in 24 subdistricts in northern Ethiopia, which we randomly assigned to receive annual or twice-y...
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Los Angeles Times
Magi turn to myrrh as frankincense struggles and gold stays high
If their trek to visit the baby Jesus had happened this year, the biblical Magi might have been in for a surprise.
The market for the gifts offered by the Three Kings -- gold, frankincense and myrrh -- is much changed since the first Christmas thousands of years ago.
Frankincense, used in perfumes and incense, is faltering. Fifty Christmases from now, production of the fragrant resin could be d...
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USA Today
Frankincense threatened by conditions in Ethiopia
The world may still have gold and myrrh, but it's quite possible that frankincense could become a thing of the past.
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BoingBoing
MPAA says SOPA-style censorship works in Yemen and Syria
The MPAA believes SOPA's censorship mandate will solve its problems, and it has presented research to Congress to support this position. As evidence, it cites the efficacy of similar censorship mandates in China, Iran, the UAE, Armenia, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Bahrain, Burma, Syria, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam.
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IKRK
Ethiopia: over 1,500 Sudanese refugees exchange news with relatives
Over 1,500 Sudanese refugees in western Ethiopia have spoken with their families by mobile phone thanks to a service set up by the ICRC in early November. Many of the refugees in Ademazin, Sherkole and Tongo camps had been without news of their relatives since they fled the conflict in Blue Nile state in Sudan several weeks ago.
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The Nation
AI calls for Bush's arrest during African trip
NEW YORK - Amnesty International is calling for the arrest of former President George W Bush during his visit to Africa for crimes under international law.The world's largest human rights group said that "there is enough evidence in the public domain" to justify either Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia arresting the former president during his visit to these countries. Bush is travelling with his...
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Irish Times
A chance to show off another side of Ethiopia
ATHLETICS/GREAT ETHIOPIAN RUN:OVER THE course of its remarkable 11-year history, the organisers of the Great Ethiopian Run have experimented with various ways of starting the race. To judge by the slightly chaotic scenes on Meskel Square in Addis Ababa yesterday, though, there’s still a little bit of work left for them to do.
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Times of India
Desisa, Kabuu win Delhi Half Marathon
Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia emerged victorious in the men's elite category, while Kenya's Lucy Kabuu won the women's title of Delhi Half Marathon.
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Mail & Guardian
Angola veteran appointed as Cuba's new defence minister
Cuba's General Leopoldo Cintra Frias, a hero of military campaigns in Angola and Ethiopia, has been named as the country's new defence minister.
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THE GLOBE AND MAIL
My fathers journey from Ethiopia to Canada
Born into abject poverty in a village in Eritrea, he was orphaned at 3 and went on to study at a boarding school run by Canadians
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Reuters
Geoffrey Mutai and Dado win New York marathon races
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Geoffrey Mutai of Kenya led the top three home in record-breaking time at the New York City Marathon Sunday while Firehiwot Dado of Ethiopia came from behind to claim the women's title.
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New York Times
Dado Wins Women’s Title in New York City Marathon
Firehiwot Dado of Ethiopia mounted a huge comeback over the second half of the race to win the New York City Marathon on Sunday.
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WSJ
Kenya's Mutai Sets N.Y. Marathon Record
Geoffrey Mutai of Kenya won the New York City Marathon in a course-record time, finishing in an unofficial time of 2 hours, 5 minutes, 6 seconds, crushing the previous mark of 2:07:43 set by Tesfaye Jifar of Ethiopia a decade ago.
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DnJournal
Auction Fever Heats Up in August with Live and Online Events Popping Up Everywhere
August is shaping up as one of the busiest months ever for domain auction activity. You will need several scorecards to keep up with the action and we have links to where you can find them. Also today, Sedo announces a plan to help build wells in drought stricken Ethiopia.
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