Cabinet has welcomed and thanked the Global Fund for their R3 billion funding for HIV and TB programmes in the country. The approval of the largest...

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Libya’s Prime Minister Ali Zeidan has been taken by gunmen from a hotel where he was staying in the capital Tripoli on Thursday morning.

In a notice on its website, the Libyan government says Zeidan of the transitional government was taken to an “unknown location for unknown reasons” by a group believed to be former rebels.

Two years after a revolution toppled Muammar Gaddafi, Libya's fragile central government has been struggling to contain rival tribal militias and Islamist militants, who control parts of the country.

Last weekend, the US military captured a top al Qaeda suspect in Tripoli in a raid that angered Islamist militant groups, including one blamed for the 2012 attack on the US consulate in Benghazi. - SAnews.gov.za-Xinhua

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This month Urban Front launched the new E98 Passiv door which has just achieved Passive House Certification. This highly insulated doorset is made with a steel reinforced core achieving up to 0.8W/m2K and 32db sound insulation with an airtightness up to class 3. These doors are available in most of the Urban Front contemporary door [...]Urban Front Launch Passive Door is a post from: Home n Spire





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CLEVELAND – (October 6, 2013) – Runners gathered downtown to enjoy live bands and cheerleaders along the inaugural Rock ‘n’ Roll Cleveland Half Marathon course on Sunday. More than 7,000 participants from 47 states and 7 countries celebrated the day with a performance by Gavin DeGraw at the Finish Line Festival in front of Horseshoe [...]Apathy takes Cleveland Half is a post from: Time-to-Run USA



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The first race in the Spur KZN Trail Series took place at Inanda Dam this Sunday with almost 200 runners converging on the beautiful venue for a great morning of trail running. Runners were treated to cool and cloudy conditions but the rain thankfully stayed away, paving the way for some fast finishing times. In [...]KZN Trail Series starts is a post from: Trail Running South Africa



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Rome - The toll of ascertained deaths in the migrant shipwreck near the Italian island of Lampedusa rose to 232 on Monday, as divers recovered 38 bodies from under the boat that sank last week, local media reports said.

The 20-metre fishing vessel is thought to have been carrying 518 people, mostly Eritreans and Somalis, when it went down, meaning that 131 people are still missing.

Only 155 survived the disaster. The victims also included several women and children.

The search for missing bodies was complicated by difficult weather conditions on Monday.

"When we left the boat, around 45 metres deep, we could still see several bodies piled and stiff," one of the deep-sea divers told Rai state television.

President of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, said he would visit Lampedusa on Wednesday "in the spirit of European support and solidarity" expressed by the Commission following the tragic event.

The European Commission continues to be "fully committed to work on further measures and concrete actions that can be taken at European and national level to address the plight of the refugees and the difficulties of the member states affected", the commission said in a statement.

Like other Italian authorities, Italy's Integration Minister Cecile Kyenge renewed calls for reform of the Italian immigration law, which makes being an undocumented migrant a criminal offence.

"Italy is these days in the middle of a wave of refugees who are not immigrants, legal or illegal ... the real problem is to solve the knot of political asylum," Italian President Giorgio Napolitano was quoted as saying by ANSA news agency.

ANSA also reported that the Italian government was working on changing current asylum laws based on three European Union directives, according to preliminary work carried out during a technical workshop on Monday.

Hundreds of African migrants have landed at Italian southern shores since Thursday's disaster, the latest in a string that occurs each year off Lampedusa. The island's temporary immigrant reception centre was reported to be heavily overcrowded.

The tiny island, which is less than 115 kilometers away from Africa, has offered rescue efforts and shelter for some of the some 30 000 migrants this year alone. But thousands have died over the past few years while attempting the perilous Mediterranean crossing in search for a better life in Europe.

The Italian government has promised that the country's position on the very frontlines will be a major theme at the next European summits.

Pope's special Lampedusa envoy joins search operations

Meanwhile, Pope Francis is getting regular updates on recovery operations off Lampedusa by a special envoy, Archbishop of Agrigento Francesco Montenegro said on Monday.

As coast guard and navy ships continue to recover bodies from Thursday's shipwreck, special envoy and Archbishop Konrad Krajewski reached the island two days ago, so as to keep the Pope informed on a constant basis.

On Monday, Montenegro said the special envoy boarded a coast vessel involved in the search and recovery operations. – SAnews.gov.za-Xinhua-AGI

Istanbul - The Turkish capital of Istanbul will today host the two-day International Media seminar of the United Nations (UN) Middle East Peace Process.

Organized by the UN Information Department and hosted by Turkish Foreign Ministry, press members, academicians, opinion leaders and representatives of non-governmental organizations will come together to share experiences and views.

According to the UN Information Centre, the seminar will also deal with press developments over the Israel-Palestine dispute.

Through the seminar, the UN aims to increase dialogue in the region between Palestinians and Israelis by making public opinion to focus on the Palestine issue.

The opening ceremony will be held by Press Relations Specialist Deputy Secretary General to the UN, Peter Launsky-Tieffenthal and General Manager of Bilateral Political Affairs and Ambassador Umit Yalcin. Launsky-Tieffenthal will read the message of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

Participants will be informed on the current phase of international efforts over 'Israel-Palestine peace' by UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and the UN Secretary-General’s Personal Representative to the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority Robert Serry.

The participants will gather with Permanent Observer of Palestine to the UN Riyad H. Mansour and Ahmad Shibab Eldin from Huffington Post Live in a Q&A session.

The seminar's themes will include Middle East's peace process and media's approach to the Palestinian issue, Forgotten discourses: Palestinian refugees and media's agenda today, Young activists in Middle East, digital media and social media and Role and effects of visual media on Palestine issue in Israeli-Palestine dispute.

The two-day seminar will close with screening of the documentary '5 Broken Cameras' with the participation of Launsky-Tieffenthal and Spokesman for Turkish Foreign Ministry Levent Gumrukcu. – SAnews.gov.za-Anadolu Ajansi