Ethiopia ushers in third millennium
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Ethiopia entered the third millennium seven years after the rest of the world Wednesday, amid lavish celebrations, religious fervor and messages of hope from the troubled country&#39;s leaders.
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Ethiopian scientists said on  Tuesday they have discovered hominid fossil fragments dating  from between 3.5 million and 3.8 million years ago in what  could fill a crucial gap in the understanding of human  evolution.
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Ethiopia, one of the world&#39;s most mine-infested countries, says it has joined a global landmine ban as more than 100 nations met to rejuvenate the campaign to eradicate the weapons and aid victims worldwide.
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By next year, more than half the worldâs population, 3.3 billion people, will for the first time live in towns and cities, a report said.
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Rastafarians converge on Ethiopia to mark what would have been Bob Marley's 60th birthday.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia  - A reggae concert in honor  of musical legend Bob Marley, which drew an audience of more  than 200,000 Ethiopians to Addis Ababa, could become an annual  fixture across Africa, its organizers said Monday.
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Ethiopia has held direct talks with Somalia's Union of Islamic Courts, despite appearing on the verge of war.
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The traditional clash between Ethiopia and Kenya in distance running is also a contest between competing visions of sport
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As 2005 approaches, the world sees much more than a passing political season. Pivotal elections and ongoing strategic shifts announce a historic time, whose significance will define the coming decades.
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LONDON, Nov 18 (IPS) - Twentieth-century modes of international governance  must be adapted to the new millennium, and the time has come, say  civil society activists, because the United Nations will soon  reach its 60th anniversary, and international institutions like  the World Bank and World Trade Organisation need to be more  democratic.
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The ethnic crisis is taking center stage at a three-day African Union summit in neighboring Ethiopia.
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MEKELE, Ethiopia -- She was famine's poster child -- a 3-year-old Ethiopian girl snatched from death and gazing at the world through exhausted eyes, her emaciated body wrapped in a white burial shroud.
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Bob Marley's 60th birthday will be celebrated with a month-long program of events in Ethiopia in February 2005.
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Leaders of the African Union began a three-day summit here Sunday focused on plans to forge a confederation of states with an acknowledgement the continent&#39;s current system of governance had to improve.
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Tony Blair, the British prime minister, is in Ethiopia to chair a summit he hopes will turn Africa&#39;s problems into a global priority.
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Italy finally looks set to heal a feud  with Ethiopia by returning one of its most cherished relics,  the obelisk of Axum, taken by fascist invaders almost 70 years  ago.
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Italy finally looks set to heal a feud with Ethiopia by returning one of its most cherished relics, the obelisk of Axum, taken by fascist invaders almost 70 years ago.