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State Department Notes on Comoros

U.S. Department of State Background Note   Sunset at Moya beach on Anjouan island, Comoros, December 29, 2001. [© AP Images]         PROFILE OFFICIAL NAME:Union of the Comoros Geography…

2004 Olympics: Boxing

Weight Class ChampionLt. Flyweight (106 lbs)Yan Bhartelemy Varela, CUB Atagun Yalcinkaya, TUR Shiming Zou, CHN / Sergey Kazakov, RUSFlyweight (112) Yuriorkis Gamboa Toledano, CUB  Jerome Thomas,…

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

    Biographies Key Palestinian Figures Mahmoud Abbas Yasir Arafat Sala Fayyad Ismail Haniya Sheik Ahmed Yassin Key Israeli Figures Ehud Barak Menachem…

June 2007

Here are the key news events of the month organized into three categories: World News, U.S. News, and Business, Society, and Science News. World Former Liberian…

Jinnah, Muhammad Ali

(Encyclopedia) Jinnah, Muhammad AliJinnah, Muhammad Aliməhämˈəd älēˈ jĭnˈə [key], 1876–1948, founder of Pakistan, b. Karachi. After his admission to the bar in England, he returned to India to…

Morsi, Mohamed

(Encyclopedia) Morsi, MohamedMorsi, Mohamedmôrˈsē [key], 1951–2019, Egyptian engineer and political leader, grad. Cairo Univ. (B.A. 1975. M.A. 1978), Univ. of Southern California (Ph.D. 1982). He…

Turabi, Hassan Abdallah al-

(Encyclopedia) Turabi, Hassan Abdallah al-Turabi, Hassan Abdallah al-häˈsän äbdäˈlä äl-t&oomacr;räˈbē [key], 1932–2016, Sudanese religious and political leader, b. Kassala, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (…

State Department Notes on Djibouti

U.S. Department of State Background Note Index: People History Government and Political Conditions Economy U.S.-Djiboutian Relations PEOPLEAbout two-thirds of the Republic of Djibouti's 650,…