Fast, before exams

Brief news I thought was interesting (more to come):
Bouteflika has proposed an an addition to the APRM to monitor elections in Africa. The body would attempt to remedy inconsistencies and “disfunctions” in African elections. This would lend authenticity and “confidence in electoral competition.” 
The Ethiopian PM Meles Zenawi announced that Mauritania has been suspended from the APRM [...]

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“Luther decade” and other interesting things from Germany

This is far beyond this blog’s general sphere of interests, but I find this article fascinating nonetheless (this one, too):
The city has been the venue for a handful of miracles, such as apparitions of Mary or the comeback made by Russian Orthodoxy after 70 years of Soviet suppression. But in today’s Wittenberg, the real miracle [...]

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