Africa News
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The rand gained, paring its worst weekly decline against the dollar in two months, amid speculation that Federal Reserve will introduce measures to stimulate the U.S. economy.
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Soldiers who left President Bashar al-Assad’s army and set up an opposition force called for a no- fly zone and two buffer areas with international backing as they seek to topple the Syrian government.
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During the worldwide depression of the mid-1930s, the poet and Islamic modernist Muhammad Iqbal, often called Pakistan’s spiritual founder, wrote a poem dramatizing the inadequacies of Western political and economic systems.
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China jailed eight sex-pill makers and raided more than 1,400 drug dens this month as the government stepped up its fight to control an estimated $3 billion of fake drugs in the world’s fastest-growing pharmaceuticals market.