Haiti candidate won't challenge 'Sweet Micky' win
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Haiti candidate won't challenge 'Sweet Micky' win
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The second-place finisher in Haiti's presidential runoff will not challenge the preliminary results, a spokesman said Friday, putting musician Michel "Sweet Micky" Martelly closer to becoming president. Mirlande Manigat, a former first lady and senator, has doubts about the veracity of preliminary results that showed she won...
Thousands of Egyptians protest in Cairo's central Tahrir Square, the focal point of Egyptian uprising, as they hold banners and signs demanding prosecution of ousted president Hosni Mubarak and his regime Friday, April 8, 2011.
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Friday protests erupt in Arab world,10 die in Syria
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SANAA/CAIRO (Reuters) – Protests erupted across much of the Arab world on Friday, the Muslim day of prayer, with demonstrators dying in Syria and Yemen while Egyptians staged one of the biggest rallies since President Hosni Mubarak's fall. Syrian security forces killed at least 10 pro-democracy demonstrators and two were shot dead in...
A Libyan rebel fighter standing next to a vehicle-mounted multiple rocket launcher, reacts after hearing claims from other rebels that an airstrike further up the road towards Brega had hit rebel forces killing at least two and injuring more than a dozen, at the west gate of Ajdabiya, Libya Thursday, April 7, 2011.
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NATO refuses to apologize for Libyan 'friendly fire' attack
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Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- NATO conceded Friday it may have mistakenly struck Libyan opposition forces during a deadly airstrike a day earlier -- but refused to apologize. British Royal Navy Rear Adm. Russell Harding told reporters that NATO forces "may" have hit rebel tanks during the airstrike Thursday. "I'm not apologizing," said Harding, the...
Haiti's hopes: An unusual president is elected at a time of misery
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Haiti's hopes: An unusual president is elected at a time of misery
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With the official results to be announced April 16, indications are that entertainer Michel Martelly has won the contest for the presidency of Haiti. His route to office was circuitous and calls into question the validity of his mandate. The first round of elections Nov. 28 produced as first and second finishers Mirlande Manigat, wife of a previous...
A youth supporter of Alassane Ouattara, left, follows a young republican forces soldier as he crosses the deserted main northern highway into Abidjan, as he leaves a guard post near the checkpoint serving as a republican forces operating base, on the outskirts of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Thursday, April 7, 2011.
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Ivory Coast: Ouattara wants EU sanctions lifted
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Ivory Coast's internationally recognised President Alassane Ouattara has urged the EU to lift sanctions, in a bid to restart the ailing economy. Mr Ouattara now controls the main cocoa-exporting port of San Pedro, and wants to restart the trade. But his troops are still...
More UN plane crash victims named as investigation into cause continues
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More UN plane crash victims named as investigation into cause continues
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Wreckage of UN aircraft at N'Djili International Airport in Kinshasa, DRC7 April 2011 – The United Nations has released the names of another 24 victims from Monday's deadly plane crash in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in which only one of 33 people aboard a UN plane survived. The UN investigation into the crash - which occurred as the...
Libyan rebels riding at the back of armed pickup trucks retreat east toward Benghazi out of Ajdabiya, Libya Thursday, April 7, 2011.
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Libya war reaching stalemate, Washington says
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AJDABIYAH, Libya - Libya's civil war is reaching stalemate, a senior US general said on Thursday, and rebels fighting to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi said a NATO air strike killed five of their fighters. Wounded rebels being brought to a hospital in Ajdabiyah in rebel-held east Libya said they were hit by a NATO strike on their trucks and tanks...
Outgoing Haiti leader criticizes UN military focus
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Outgoing Haiti leader criticizes UN military focus
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President of Haiti Rene Preval speaks during a meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Haiti, Wednesday, April 6, 2011 at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews) EDITH M. LEDERER,Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Haiti's outgoing president criticized the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday for being too slow to switch its...
Kenyan riot police chase supporters of Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) in Nairobi, Kenya, Monday, Dec. 31, 2007, following protests over the Kenyan election
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Kenyan leaders appear at Hague court over killings
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THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Three Kenyans appeared at the International Criminal Court Thursday, denying they had any connection with unrest in which 1,200 people were killed after disputed elections in 2007. Suspended government ministers William Ruto and Henry Kosgey and radio executive Joshua Arap Sang attended the court to hear charges of crimes...
Soldiers loyal to democratically elected president Alassane Ouattara return from fighting to a checkpoint serving as an operating base, at one of the main entrances to Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Wednesday, April 6, 2011.
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All-day attack on Gbagbo's home fails to oust him
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ACCRA, Ghana - Even after airstrikes pounded holes in his garden, even after fighters circled his home and stormed the gates, Ivory Coast strongman Laurent Gbagbo did not budge Wednesday from the bunker where he remained holed up. The all-day assault on Gbagbo's heavily guarded and well-armed compound, complete with tanks and anti-aircraft...
Death and taxes are always with us, and so are arguments about whether nations ever have the...
As Cote d'Ivoire's bloody leadership contest draws to a close and the surrender of Laurent...
Washington – As the Libya conflict appears to settle into a potentially protracted...
 
UN forces patrol on a street of, Ivory Coast, Abidjan Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010.
United Nations staff in western Ivory Coast have found more than 100 bodies in the past 24 hours, some burned alive and others thrown down a well, in a further sign of the ethnic violence gripping the country. The grim discovery came a week after the...
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Israeli soldiers work next to the Iron Dome anti-rocket system, in the coastal city of Ashkelon, Monday, April 4, 2011.
On Thursday evening, Israel's new Iron Dome mobile short-range missile defence system was used in a combat operation for the first time, Israeli officials say. A battery located...
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* FILE ** Police and investigators look at what remains of the flight deck of Pan Am 103 on a field in Lockerbie, Scotland, in this Dec 22, 1988 file photo. In the 15 years since Pan American World Airways shut down, ex-employee Anthony La Pera had assumed he would never get paid for leftover wages and accrued vacation. But La Pera and another 15,000 ex-employees can expect to open their mailboxes one day this December and find that a check has arrived, from a $33 million settlement with the government of Libya over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing. It marks the the end of the liquidation of an iconic airline.
Defection of Libya's Moussa Koussa prompts mixed responses from US and British relatives of those killed in the Lockerbie bombing Moussa Koussa: In their open letter to other Lockerbie families, Cumnock and Hudson said Koussa’s treatment after his...
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Easter deals: bank holiday bonus lures more to the sun
Tour operators are offering thousands of extra holidays over the Easter period to satisfy a surge in demand among British travellers. There are Easter bargains to be had in the Algarve Photo: ALAMY By Oliver Smith 10:27AM BST 08 Apr 2011...
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Ice floes and treacherous weather pose challenges to Military Sealift Command.
Bangkok - The first UN climate talks for the year entered their final day on Friday with negotiators still trying to hammer out a deal after familiar feuds between rich and poor nations flared. The four days of talks had an apparently modest main...
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EU ministers to wrangle over Portugal bailout deal
European finance ministers will try to work out the size and terms of a rescue loan for Portugal at their meeting in Hungary today and tomorrow - but uncertainty persists over how much the caretaker government in Lisbon can offer in return. Portugal...
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Bill Gates endorses Khanacademy.com's free educational resources
Microsoft founder Bill Gates, once the richest man in the world, knows a good deal when he sees one. Since 2010, Gates, whose foundation supports education, has heaped praise on khanacademy.com, a Web site banking more than 2,500 free mini-lectures...
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