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The beneficiaries have since been handed certificates of pardoning.

A World Economic Forum (WEF) report published says re-skilling would cost approximately $34 billion.

South Sudan’s ban follows similar moves by Rwanda, South Africa, Kenya and Ghana.

Weak implementation of security policies frequently triggers such incidents in Indonesia.

Italy’s deputy PM wants the EU to impose sanctions on France.

The president cut short an overseas trip.

The UK is in the deepest political crisis in half a century.

The freeze is to continue until a review of both journalists’ status is carried out.

Rwanda’s mining industry, quarrying excluded, employs 43,000 people.

Lupando Mwape served as the vice president from October 2004 to October 2006.

The measure did not constitute the imposition of general sanctions against Iran, the source said.

Egypt currently has eight refineries with a capacity of 38 million tonnes.

Japan is the last of the four biggest Iranian oil buyers in Asia to resume imports.

UN peacekeeping and French forces are stationed in northern Mali.

There were contradicting tallies as to the number of people killed.

Police say 21 people were killed in the attack on a Nairobi hotel and office complex.

The 73-year-old was acquitted on Wednesday.

Mr Hussein-Swale was shot dead Wednesday night.

The earlier directives are already the subject of a pending High Court application.

Gbagbo and his co-accused, youth militia leader, Charles Blé Goudé, were arrested for having allegedly orchestrated the murder, rape and persecution of opponents after he lost the election in Côte d’Ivoire in December 2010.

Kennedy Agyapong departs for China after he was questioned by the police over Wednesday night’s murder of Ahmed Hussein-Suale.

Anyone who voluntarily leaves and promises not to return not only to the Czech Republic but to the EU will be eligible for 4,000 euros.