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Cocoa growers protest an export ban by burning sacs of cocoa beans in front of the European Union office in Abidjan, Ivory Coast Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011. Ivory Coast's biggest bank shut down its operations Thursday, joining the companies fleeing the country's deepening political crisis, as hundreds of growers in the world's largest cocoa exporter burned their beans in protest.

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Ivorian govt to control cocoa trade
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Laurent Gbagbo, the disputed president of Cote d'Ivoire, has issued a decree under which the state becomes the sole purchaser of cocoa in the world's top grower and handles its export to global markets. Monday's announcement, made on state television, comes as renewed clashes break out in the West African country. "The export of products in...

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates, talks, with Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai, during their meeting in Kabul, Monday, March 7, 2011. Gates visited Afghanistan to meet with U.S. troops, allied commanders and Afghan leaders to gauge war progress as the Obama administration moves toward crucial decisions on reducing troop levels.

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Gates says US still has role in Afghanistan
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2011-03-08 07:11:56.0Gates says US still has role in...

In this photo reviewed by the U.S. military and shot through a window, a guard watches over detainees in the exercise yard at the Camp Five detention facility on Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba, Sunday, May 31, 2009.

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US to resume Guantanamo trials after two-year freeze
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WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama on Monday lifted a two-year freeze on new military trials at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and suggested Congress was hurting national security by blocking his attempts to move some trials into US civilian courts. In an apparent acknowledgment that the Guantanamo detention camp won't be shut down any time soon, Obama...

Tunisian protestors shout slogans in front of the RCD party office after the sign bearing its name was dismantled, in Tunis, Thursday, Jan. 20. 2011. The Constitutional Democratic Rally, RCD, party was founded by ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who fled to Saudi Arabia on Friday after 23 years in power.

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Tunisia scraps hated police unit
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Tweet - Tunisia's prime minister named a new government on Monday and a much-hated police unit was disbanded as the interim leadership of this North African nation seeks to stabilise a country still finding its way after a popular revolt. Prime Minister Beji Caid Essebsi kept the heads of the key defence, interior, justice and foreign affairs...

Libyan rebels who are part of the forces against Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi sit in their vehicle near Ras Lanuf, eastern Libya, Monday, March 7, 2011.

photo: AP / Libyan rebels who are part of the forces against Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi sit in their vehicle near Ras Lanuf, eastern Libya, Monday, March 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

Libyan warplanes strike rebels at key oil complex in Ras Lanuf
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A mass evacuation eastward is triggered. Rebel fighters describe it as an upcoming attempt to retake the Libyan desert outpost of Bin Jawwad. Share Related Stories See more stories » X Links By David Zucchino, Los Angeles Times...

French President Jacques Chirac listens to German Chancelor Gerhard Schroeder during a joint press conference in Hanover, Germany, Dec. 2, 2000. For decades, systematic corruption at the highest levels of French government has drawn little reaction. But

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French Court Opens Trial Against Jacques Chirac
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The Associated Press By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press PARIS March 7, 2011 (AP) A long-awaited French corruption trial opened Monday with former President Jacques Chirac as the star defendant. AP FILE - In this May 12, 2006 file photo, French President Jacques Chirac is seen during a bi-lateral... FILE - In this May 12, 2006 file photo, French...

A boat loaded with migrants is spotted at sea off the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, Italy, early Monday, March 7, 2011. More than 1,000 migrants from North Africa have arrived in Italy overnight, some in rickety boats that had to be escorted ashore by the Italian coast guard.

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North African boat migrants land on Lampedusa
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Backlog grows as as hundreds flee unrest in small boats to arrive on tiny south Italian island Migrants arrive on the island of Lampedusa: the Italian government is alarmed by the prospect of many more arriving to escape unrest in north Africa. Photograph: Antonello Nusca/AP...

Gen. David Petraeus, left, top commander of coalition forces in Afghanistan, chats with U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates upon Gates' arrival in Kabul, Afghanistan Monday, March 7, 2011. Gates arrived in Afghanistan Monday, beginning a two-day visit with U.S. troops, allied commanders and Afghan leaders to gauge war progress as the Obama administration moves toward crucial decisions on reducing troop levels.

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Gates in Afghanistan to meet Karzai, troops
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The defense secretary arrives at a time of heightened tension over civilian casualties in the war....

Egyptian protesters shout slogans as they march outside of the state security building headquarters in Cairo's northern Nasr City neighborhood, Egypt, Saturday, March 5, 2011. Three weeks after President Hosni Mubarak's ouster, Egyptians are turning their anger toward his internal security apparatus, storming the agency's main headquarters and other offices Saturday and seizing documents to keep them from being destroyed to hide evidence of human rights abuses.

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Egypt protesters attacked by 'armed civilians' in Cairo
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Continue reading the main story Egypt's Revolution Bowen: Bumpy ride Inside the Brotherhood Final moments before the fall Can military meet demands? Pro-democracy activists in Egypt have been attacked by men in plain clothes, armed with knives, outside the interior ministry in Cairo, reports say....

Women supporters of a left wing political party hold placards carrying pictures of Afghans killed or wounded in recent air strikes during a protest in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, March 6, 2011. Hundreds of people from a left-wing political party marched through the streets of central Kabul to protest against U.S. military operations and demanded the withdrawal of foreign troops.

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US apology for Afghan deaths 'not enough' -Karzai
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Tweet - Afghan President Hamid Karzai told General David Petraeus, the commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, on Sunday his apology for a foreign air strike that killed nine children last week was "not enough". At a meeting with his security advisers at which Petraeus was present, Karzai said civilian casualties by foreign troops were "no...