Posted on 03 December 2009.
Rwanda has been declared free of landmines – the first country to achieve this status.
The announcement was made at the Cartagena Summit on a Mine-Free World in Colombia.
Hundreds of people have been killed and horrifically injured by landmines in Rwanda.
Landmines were laid between 1990 and 1994 in Rwanda and over the past three years more than over 9,000 have been destroyed by Rwandan soldiers. Read the full story
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Posted on 26 November 2009.
Obama as a child with his mother. Photograph: APNeil Sankey has spent his life investigating organised crimes. As a former British police officer with almost 20 years experience, he was seconded to elite units of Scotland Yard through most of the 1970s and now runs his own private detective agency in California.
Over the years he has been involved in some big investigations. As part of the Special Branch and Bomb Squad he monitored British leftwing groups and the IRA, and in America his clients have included several big car companies.
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Posted on 03 August 2009.
Nairobi – Somali pirates were preparing to release a German ship held off the Somali coast for four months after receiving a multi-million-dollar ransom, a member of the gang said Monday. The Hansa Stavanger was seized on April 4 around 400 nautical miles off the Somali coast, between Kenya and the Seychelles. Read the full story
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