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Fire guts Ethiopian hotel made famous by 'Scoop'

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Fire has badly damaged a historic hotel in Ethiopia's capital made famous as the setting for Evelyn Waugh's 1938 satirical novel "Scoop". A fierce blaze late Saturday swept through the Itegue Taitu Hotel in Addis Ababa, built in the early 1900s and one of the oldest buildings in the city.


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