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Somali traders want UN to lift charcoal trade ban
Thousands of sacks of dark charcoal sit atop one another in Somalia's southern port city of Kismayo, signs of a trade once worth some $25 million ...
Amnesty: Nigeria denies rights to sect suspects
Nigeria is illegally holding hundreds of people suspected of participation in violence by a radical Islamist sect in inhumane conditions and without ...
Iraq court hands Sunni VP 2nd death sentence
An Iraqi court on Thursday unexpectedly convicted the country's fugitive Sunni vice president on charges of instigating bodyguards to assassinate a ...
French firm: 7 kidnapped sailors freed in Nigeria
Kidnappers freed six Russian sailors and an Estonian who had been abducted from a ship off Nigeria's southern delta, a French oil and gas services ...
East Jerusalem streets get names, easing confusion
When he drives around east Jerusalem, taxi driver Samer al-Risheq doesn't use GPS and tucks away his maps. In many parts on this side of the city, ...
US wants Syrian opposition shakeup to defeat Assad
The Obama administration said Wednesday it would push for a major shakeup in Syria's opposition leadership so that it better represents those dying ...
Syria presses heavy air bombardment of rebels
Syrian warplanes fired missiles at opposition strongholds around Damascus and in the north on Wednesday as Turkey, a key backer of the anti-regime ...
Syria war puts anti-US alliance on the defensive
When the Hamas rulers of Gaza recently gave a hero's welcome to the ruler of Qatar, an arch foe of the Syrian regime, it sent a strong message ...
Israeli, French leaders push for Iran sanctions
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won pledges Wednesday from France's president to push harder for new sanctions against Iran to keep it from ...
Officials: CIA head in Egypt for security talks
United States Central Intelligence Director David Petraeus began a two-day mission to Cairo on Wednesday for a two-day visit for security and ...
Afghans set presidential poll date; Taliban jeer
Afghans will elect a new president in the spring of 2014 in a ballot considered crucial for their country's stability and security after more than 11 ...
Turkish PM: Too soon to call for Syria no-fly zone
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday it is up to the U.N. Security Council to decide whether a no-fly zone should be imposed on ...
As peace expands in Somalia, gov't wants weapons
Should Somalia's fledgling government be allowed to import weapons to arm its nascent military? With areas under government control increasing and the ...
Opposition leader sentenced to 8 years in Rwanda
A Rwandan court sentenced the country's top opposition political leader to eight years in prison on Tuesday for treason and on a charge stemming from ...
Syria activists report 23 dead in Damascus suburb
Airstrikes by Syrian jets and shells from tanks leveled a neighborhood in a restive city near the capital of Damascus on Tuesday, killing 18 people, ...
IMF delegation in Egypt for talks on crucial loan
A delegation from the International Monetary Fund is back in Egypt for critical negotiations over a $4.8 billion loan to help bolster the country's ...
Sexual harassment spikes over Egyptian holiday
Egypt's president acknowledged the widespread problem of sexual harassment in his country Tuesday, ordering his interior minister to investigate a ...
In Sudan blast, signs of Iran and Israel's rivalry
A suspected Israeli airstrike against a weapons factory in Khartoum last week points to a possible escalation in a hidden front of the rivalry between ...
Family: Mali military killed 8 Tuareg herders
The Malian military killed eight peaceful civilians, a relative said Tuesday after the government announced its soldiers had targeted armed gunmen ...
Man in Afghan uniform kills 2 British troops
A man wearing an Afghan police uniform shot and killed two British soldiers at a checkpoint in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, international military ...
Bahrain bans all protest gatherings amid violence
Bahrain imposed emergency-style rules Tuesday banning all protest gatherings and threating legal action against groups considered backing escalating ...
Survivors criticize Myanmar gov't over clashes
Victims of ethnic clashes in western Myanmar lashed out at the government for failing to prevent violence between Muslims and Buddhists that has ...
Egypt: Coptic Church moves toward picking new pope
A council of Egypt's Coptic Christians voted on Monday in a process that will lead to the selection of a new pope for the ancient church, as the ...
Syrian regime launches nationwide airstrikes
Syrian fighter jets pounded rebel areas across the country on Monday with scores of airstrikes that anti-regime activists called the most widespread ...
US seeks Algeria's support in possible Mali move
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sought Algeria's assistance on Monday for any future military intervention in Mali, pressing the North ...