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Sierra Leone diamond firm: from war booty to IPO
April 04, 2012 12:39 
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KOIDU, Sierra Leone (Reuters) - Sierra Leone's only pit diamond mine has come far from its origins as wartime booty presented to mercenaries by a grateful military junta.
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Young Gulf Arabs question tradition of cousin marriages
April 04, 2012 11:08
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DOHA (Reuters) - Noor was not the first in her Qatari family to marry a close relative, but she may be one of the last.
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Britain's beaming royal couple reproduced in wax
April 04, 2012 08:36
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LONDON (Reuters) - Madame Tussauds unveiled waxwork figures of British royal couple Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge on Wednesday, and expected the couple, now international celebrities in...
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Lingua franca of South Africa's mines set to fade slowly
April 04, 2012 06:22
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THEUNISSEN, South Africa (Reuters) - In the bowels of Gold Fields' Beatrix mine in South Africa's Free State province, chief executive Nick Holland addresses the workers, congratulating them on...
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Ammonia used in many foods, not just "pink slime"
April 04, 2012 05:37
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New York (Reuters) - Surprise rippled across America last month as a new wave of consumers discovered that hamburgers often contained ammonia-treated beef, or what critics dub "pink slime".
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Tunisia's ex-first lady to tell her "truth" in memoir
April 04, 2012 04:50
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TUNIS (Reuters) - Leila Ben Ali, the wife of Tunisia's ousted dictator, will publish a memoir of her life that is likely to stir controversy in the North African country where she was reviled by many...
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Taboo-breaking Saudi films spur debate in staid kingdom
April 04, 2012 02:24
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JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - An important Saudi official riding in a chauffered Rolls Royce unspools a wire fence across previously unclaimed land. "It's mine now," he says.
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Court hears appeals over anti-gay marriage law
April 04, 2012 01:40
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BOSTON (Reuters) - A federal appeals court in Boston heard arguments on Wednesday about the constitutionality of a law that denies federal benefits to married same-sex couples - a case with...
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Charleston chef's love of seafood spawned in Ireland
April 03, 2012 12:05
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Growing up the son of two chefs in Limerick, Ireland, Frank McMahon was probably to the kitchen born.
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Bloody grass "from Gandhi assassination" to be sold
April 03, 2012 11:16
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LONDON (Reuters) - Samples of soil and blades of bloody grass purportedly from the spot where Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in 1948 will go on sale in Britain later this month and are...
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