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54 killed in Uganda fighting between rebels, army

  KAMPALA / AP Scores of people have been killed in fighting between Ugandan forces and a tribal militia in a remote district near the border with Congo, Ugandan officials said on Sunday as security forces battled armed men protecting a tribal king who is accused of leading the rebels. At least 54 people, including 41 rebels and 13 police officers, ...

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Militia attack kills 34 civilians in DR Congo

  Goma /AFP At least 34 civilians were killed on Sunday in a flare up of ethnic violence in restive eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, authorities said, following a week of soaring tensions. “The provisional toll is 34 civilians killed,” said local official Joy Bokele, referring to an attack by a Nande ethnicity militia on the Hutu village of Luhanga. ...

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Trump calls recount a ‘scam’ but effort moves forward

  WEST PALM BEACH / AP For months Donald Trump called the presidential election “rigged.” The president-elect has a different word — “scam” — for the recount effort aimed at revisiting the vote in three pivotal battleground states. “The people have spoken and the election is over,” Trump declared on Saturday in his first comments about the growing effort to ...

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