Ethiopia readies for lavish millennium celebrations
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Ethiopia readied itself on Tuesday for a lavish millennium party celebrating the unique cultural heritage that produced, among other things, a calendar seven years behind the rest of the world.
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A look at the events and highlights slated for the upcoming year.
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As inaugural planners organize a $40 million pageant for President Bush this month, Ashwini Hardikar is preparing for another kind of spectacle.
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Brunei was laying out a lavish table yesterday for 5,000 high-powered guests to celebrate the marriage of its crown prince to a half
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Royalty and top politicians from around the world are gathering in the oil-rich state of Brunei for what is set to be Asia&#39;s most lavish wedding in years.
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China is preparing to mark Sunday the centenary of the birth of Deng Xiaoping, the father of the country's modernization drive, with a flurry of nationalistic and party celebrations.
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As a stranger draws near,  priest Mesganaw Tarkgn whips on an embroidered cape and raises  an ancient cross in a picture-perfect pose. He is used to the  demands of visitors to one of Ethiopia&#39;s holiest sites.
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Somalia's president-elect, tasked with setting up the first national government in 13 years, is due to take the oath of office in Kenya.
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The State Department on Friday advised Americans that heightened security will be in place for celebrations in Ethiopia next month of the 60th anniversary of Bob Marley's birth.
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Science and Tech. Science and Tech. Ethiopian high-level delegation led by Prime Minister Meles Zenawi arrived in Berlin, Germany later on Tuesday for a three-day official visit to Germany.
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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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Freshly recovered from a heart operation, Prime Minister Tony Blair was scheduled to fly to Ethiopia on a personal aid mission which he hopes will also provide a restorative boost to his own place in history.
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Liverpool gets ready to host a musical extravaganza as part of celebrations to mark its Captial of Culture year.
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Ethiopia's president asks the Queen for the remains of a prince who died in Britain more than 100 years ago.
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"I wish to inform you that I shall personally attend the meeting and also be present at all the functions organised for the celebrations of the silver jubilee of Her Majesty the Queen."  Britain, which turned to the International Monetary Fund for help after a 1976 sterling crisis, held lavish celebrations to mark the queen's 25 years on the throne, including a service at Saint Paul's cathedral ... via Gulf Times
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Ethiopia opened an embassy in the chaotic Somali capital next to the presidential palace on Sunday, the latest sign of the Horn of Africa military power's close ties with a Somali government it wants to sustain.
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The great and the good of Africa and international finance, hidden inside cavalcades of ageing limos flanked by motorcycle outriders flying the yellow and gold flag of Ethiopia, poured into the UN building in the heart of Addis Ababa in great long lines