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  Mali rebels make gains, vow to avenge French bombs

  Despite a punishing bombardment by French warplanes, al-Qaida-linked insurgents grabbed more territory in Mali on Monday, seizing a strategic military ... 

• Al-Qaida carves out own country in Mali

  Deep inside caves, in remote desert bases, in the escarpments and cliff faces of northern Mali, Islamic extremist fighters have been burrowing into ... 

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  A closer look at West African nation of Mali

  Here's a close look at the West African nation of Mali, where French forces launched a military operation last week to oust al-Qaida-linked militants ... 

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  Hundreds of French troops drive back Mali rebels

  The battle to retake Mali's north from the al-Qaida-linked groups controlling it began in earnest Saturday, after hundreds of French forces deployed ... 

• AP Interview: UN chief says Mali getting more help

  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Friday that France, Senegal and Nigeria have responded to an appeal from Mali's president for help to counter an ... 

• Mali army, Islamist rebels clash

  The Mali army attacked Islamist rebels with heavy weapons in the center of the country which divides the insurgent-held north and the ... 

• Mali's Islamists withdraw cease-fire pledge

  An Islamist group in northern Mali says it's suspending its pledge to halt hostilities less than a month after it agreed to do so. The group Ansar ... 

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  AP IMPACT: Al-Qaida carves out own country in Mali

  Deep inside caves, in remote desert bases, in the escarpments and cliff faces of northern Mali, Islamic fighters are burrowing into the earth, ... 

• Mali gets new prime minister after military ouster

  The troubled nation of Mali swore in a new interim prime minister on Thursday, just days after soldiers behind this year's military coup arrested his ... 

• Mali gets new prime minister after forced ouster

  Mali's interim president has named a replacement prime minister after soldiers behind a coup earlier this year forced out his predecessor and placed ... 

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  Mali's PM forced to resign, after arrest by junta

  Soldiers arrested Mali's prime minister and forced him to resign before dawn on Tuesday, showing that the military remains the real power in this ... 

• Mali's PM resigns, after being arrested by junta

  Mali's prime minister presented his resignation on state television in a broadcast at 4 a.m. local time, hours after soldiers who led Mali's recent ... 

• Mali: Demonstrators call for military intervention

  Police say that Malians demonstrated for an international military intervention to regain control of the country's north, which is currently ... 

• Islamists push secular Tuaregs into Mali desert

  Islamists in northern Mali say they have pushed the secular Tuareg rebels out of a northwestern town and into the desert and now control the main Mali ...