In April of 2005, Jacques Chirac and the German Chancellor at the time, Gerhard Schrder, announced plans to spend over a billion euros on a joint French-German search engine to compete with the American company Google. The project would be called Qu

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A rising dispute between militants in Somalia may have split the country's al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab group into two factions. Reports say the suicide bombing at a Mogadishu hotel earlier this month deepened divisions between an al-Shabab leader close

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