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JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – Investors from Europe, Asia and the United States are not the only ones chasing growth opportunities in Africa these days – Africans themselves are waking up to the potential across borders in their own backyard.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – An experimental malaria vaccine proved highly effective in a small, early-stage clinical trial in people, raising hope in the global effort to combat the deadly disease, U.S.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Egypt’s political crisis entered a tense new phase yesterday after international mediation efforts collapsed and the army-installed government repeated its threat to take action against supporters of deposed President Mohamed Mursi.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama yesterday canceled a Moscow summit with President Vladimir Putin planned for next month in retaliation for Russia’s decision to grant asylum to fugitive U.S.

TOKYO, (Reuters) – Highly radioactive water from Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is pouring out at a rate of 300 tonnes a day, officials said yesterday, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ordered the government to step in and help in the clean-up.

OTTAWA/WILMINGTON, Del.,  (Reuters) – The railway whose runaway train killed 47 people in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, last month filed for bankruptcy protection in Canada and the United States on Wednesday as it faces mounting pressure from authorities to pay for the disaster cleanup.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The world’s second-largest offshore wind farm, capable of generating enough electricity to power over half a million homes, was opened officially off England’s east coast yesterday.

NAIROBI, (Reuters) – A fire engulfed Kenya’s main airport today, forcing the suspension of international passenger flights and choking a vital travel gateway to east Africa.

TOKYO,  (Reuters) – Highly radioactive water from Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is pouring out at a rate of 300 tonnes a day, officials said on Wednesday, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ordered the government to step in and help in the clean-up.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – The chances for a negotiated end to Egypt’s political crisis looked to have hit the rocks yesterday with the army-installed government reportedly ready to declare that foreign mediation efforts had failed.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – Haitian President Michel Martelly plans to hold overdue elections before the end of the year, according to U.S.

TUNIS,  (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Tunisians crowded the streets of downtown Tunis yesterday to demand the transitional government’s ouster, in the largest opposition protest since the country’s political crisis began two weeks ago.

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – The U.S. government yesterday filed two civil lawsuits against Bank of America that accuse the bank of investor fraud in its sale of $850 million of residential mortgage-backed securities.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The first scientific analysis of probable human-to-human transmission of a deadly new strain of bird flu that emerged in China this year gives the strongest evidence yet that the H7N9 virus can pass between people, scientists said yesterday.

(DALLAS,  (Reuters) – Former Presi-dent George W. Bush underwent successful surgery at a Dallas hospital on Tuesday to place a stent in a blocked heart artery.

SANAA,  (Reuters) – The United States told its citizens in Yemen yesterday to leave immediately and ordered the evacuation of non-essential U.S.

(Reuters) – A four-meter (13-foot) African rock python which strangled two young Canadian boys as they slept has been euthanized, police said yesterday, as authorities examined what happened and why the snake – illegal in the province of New Brunswick – attacked.

SANAA,  (Reuters) – The United States told its citizens in Yemen today to leave immediately and ordered the evacuation of non-essential U.S.

(Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc founder Jeff Bezos will buy the Washington Post newspaper for $250 million in a surprise deal that ends the Graham family’s 80 years of ownership and hands one of the country’s most influential publications to the businessman whose Internet company has transformed retailing.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – The Muslim Brotherhood on Monday rejected pleas from international envoys to “swallow the reality” that Mohamed Mursi will not return as Egypt’s president.