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Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo speaks at a press conference in Abidjan, Saturday March 1, 2003, about the five month old conflict in the Ivory Coast. Liberia's defense minister accused neighboring Ivory Coast Saturday of sponsoring a crossborder attack by 100 Liberian mercenaries, which the minister said amounted to a declaration of war.

Abidjan Lawmaker Photos War Crimes Wikipedia: Laurent Gbagbo

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Ivory Coast charges youth leader with war crimes
Mon 21 Jan 2013
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - A militant youth leader and close ally of Ivory Coast's ex-president Laurent Gbagbo was charged with war crimes and murder, a spokesman for the state prosecutor said on Monday.... (photo: AP / Schalk van Zuydam)

Ivory Cost President Laurent Gbagbo, center, shows a peace sign, as he walk's next to Ivory Coast youth leader Ble Goude, far right, at a rally in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Friday, Nov. 26, 2010. Ivory Coast will have a second round off elections on Sunday.

Herald Tribune Thu 17 Jan 2013
Ghana arrest Ble Goude wanted in Ivory Coast
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast - A lawyer says authorities in Ghana have arrested Charles Ble Goude, the former head of a youth movement in Ivory Coast wanted in connection with violence linked to its disputed... (photo: AP / Schalk van Zuydam)
Abidjan Arrest Charles Ble Goude Ghana Photos Wikipedia: Charles Blé Goudé

Diddier Drogba from Ivory Coast, left, fights for the ball with Kone Bakary from Burkina Faso during a World Cup qualifying game held in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Saturday, Sept. 5, 2009

Independent online (SA) Wed 16 Jan 2013
Last chance for Drogba
Lagos – Didier Drogba hopes to finally lead the Ivory Coast to a second Nations Cup triumph in South Africa after two close misses. “We have a team capable of great things at the 2013... (photo: AP / AP Photo)
African Cup of Nations Diddier Drogba Photos Soccer Wikipedia: 2013 Africa Cup of Nations

Atm Swiping Machine - Supermarket Counter

Peace FM Online Wed 16 Jan 2013
ATM Cards To Be Used For Shopping
In a few weeks, bank customers can use their ATM cards to shop anywhere in Ghana and make payment on point-of-sale devices with their cards. This is the next big project... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc)
Bank Business Ghana Photos Wikipedia: ATM

Starbucks Coffee at Changi Airport, Singapore

Seattle Post Tue 15 Jan 2013
>Starbucks warns of threat to world's coffee supply
There's a global crisis of unimaginable import and the powers that be aren't doing anything about it, despite Seattleites' strident efforts to raise awareness. No, it's... (photo: WN / RTayco)
Business Food Market Photos Wikipedia: Starbucks

Climate Change - environment - nature

Huffington Post Mon 14 Jan 2013
Climate Change Study: Emissions Limits Could Avoid Damage By Two-Thirds
... (photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar)
Climate Environment London Photos

Joy Online Tue 8 Jan 2013
Hunger and malnutrition crisis affecting millions of children 'Save the Children'
The international charity organisation 'Save the Children' says as world leaders have been occupied with one economic crisis after another, a hunger and malnutrition... (photo: WN / John Sahid)
Charity Health Kids Photos

Benin's President Thomas Boni Yayi speaks during a press conference after a meeting with Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff, not pictured, at Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Friday March 23, 2012. Yayi is on a one-day visit to Brazil.

Peace FM Online Tue 8 Jan 2013
African Union And US Commend Ghana For Being The Pride Of Africa
The African Union has described Ghana as a model of political maturity, whose democratic values remain a pride of Africa. The AU Chairman, Thomas Yayi Boni congratulated... (photo: AP / Eraldo Peres)
Africa Ghana Photos Politics Wikipedia: Yayi Boni

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Many of those who have fled intercommunal clashes in Equateur Province are children (file photo), DR Congo(DRC)

DRC peace deal delayed

File - Women and their young children walk along the road between the towns of Balcad and Jawahar in the Middle Shabelle region of Somalia. On 9 December, 2012, Somali National Army (SNA) forces supported by the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) captured the town of Jawahar from the militant extremist group, Al Shabaab.

Somalia gravediggers grieve improved security

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a religious ceremony for the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Saturday, Aug 27, 2011.

Mahmoud Abbas attends AU summit, reiterates position on Israel

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President Mahama mourns with Brazil Peace FM Online

First Lady Michelle Obama appears on the stage with actor Kal Penn for filming a campaign video at the Democratic National Convention inside Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, N.C., on Monday, Sept. 3, 2012.

What will Michelle Obama do with four more years?

This picture provided by the French Army Communications Audiovisual office (ECPAD) and released Monday Jan. 28, 2013 shows a Chadian soldier securing Gao airport, north of Mali, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013. French and Malian forces pushed toward the fabled desert town of Timbuktu on Sunday, as the two-week-long French mission gathered momentum against the Islamist extremists who have ruled the north for more than nine months.

French, Malian forces capture Gao rebel stronghold

Christine Lagarde, of France, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, reacts during a session at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013.

IMF boss Lagarde warns EU, US on last day of Davos

Why Los Angeles needs to know who Elizabeth Espinosa is CNN
Apple updates iPhone, iPad software Herald Tribune
Honeymoon incentive from the Ritz-Carlton, Charlotte The Examiner
Violent extremism Europe's top threat News24
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Saudi shops to erect separation walls News24
Mali force to cost $460m, AU to fund $50m News24
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Report says Google and YouTube gain on Facebook as most popu The Business Review
Galatasaray launch bid to sign Didier Drogba from Shanghai S CNN
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10 calming wellness retreats CNN
Mali's 2.5 Percent Problem Foreign Policy
HMV next for Hilco – restructuring expert that preys on dyin The Guardian
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Dutch Queen Beatrix announces abdication NZ Herald
Kenya Starts On First Tech City in Region All Africa
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Press Conference by H.E. Mr. Mourad Medelci, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Algeria, to discuss the Presidency of G-77 + China, as well as the political, economic and social situation in Algeria

Algeria asks for terror help

Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., sits before the committee he has served on for 28 years and led for the past four as he seeks confirmation as U.S. secretary of state

Memo to Kerry: Latin America should not be an asterisk

In this Monday, May 10, 2010 file photo, Malian special forces drill to face off an ambush as an unidentified U.S. Special Forces soldier gives instructions from a Malian truck in Kita, Mali, during a joint training exercise. A new Tuareg rebel group, whose members include former pro-Gadhafi fighters, say Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012, that they have launched a second day of attacks in northern Mali towns.

Mali: not another Afghanistan

Islamists set fire to library housing ancient manuscripts South China Morning Post
Falcao: Soccer's 'Tiger' prowls for goals CNN
French-led forces enter the Mali town of Timbuktu Deutsche Welle
No need for Western support... French-led troops seize Timbu Middle East Online
US official: Mali intervention 'could take years' STL Today
Boko Haram commander declares Nigeria ceasefire The Star
The Coming Oil War ... Against al-Qaeda CNBC
U.S. Plans Base for Surveillance Drones in Northwest Africa The New York Times
>US official: Mali intervention 'could take years' Seattle Post
US official: Mali intervention 'could take years'; US wants Star Tribune
US official: Mali intervention ‘could take years’; US wants The Washington Post
African Union to Boost Mali Military Presence – Russian Envo Novosti
Ilana Mercer on multiculturalism, political correctness, and The Washington Times
Jobs and growth top issues as Davos meeting closes NZ Herald
Morsi calls for “national dialogue” amid widespread violence Foreign Policy
Syria and the US: The complicity of silence Al Jazeera
French success in Mali may herald 'war of the shadows' BBC News
Algeria gas pipeline attack kills two guards The Daily Telegraph
Ban - 'moral imperative' to support Mali News24
Small groups pose new terrorist threat: French judge Reuters

Togo's Emmanuel Adebayor, left, avoids Algeria's Essaid Belkalem and shoots to score the opening goal during their African Cup of Nations group D match Saturday, Jan. 26 2013 at the Royal Bafokeng stadium in Rustenburg, South Africa. The two other teams in group D are Ivory Coast and Tunisia.

Emmanuel Adebayor keeps Togo alive in African Cup

File - A crowd of demonstrators protest the ongoing use of weapons by rebel militias inside of Tripoli and the accompanying atmosphere of lawlessness. Some wave banners demanding disarmament of the militias and the creation of a national army, 7 Dec, 2011.

Fears grow that lawless Libya is incubator for region's turmoil

Egyptian protesters throw stones at riot police, not seen, and use scrap metal to deflect stones being returned by security forces during clashes near Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Jan. 25, 2013.

Street-Level Views of Protests in Cairo to Mark Two Years of Revolution

Ghana and Mali advance to quarters Al Jazeera
French-led troops regain Timbuktu from rebels Al Jazeera
Fleeing Islamists leave Timbuktu in shambles Business Day
Dutch Queen Beatrix announces she is to abdicate South China Morning Post
Queen Beatrix To Abdicate Dutch Throne April 30 Huffington Post
>Dutch Queen Beatrix announces she is to abdicate Seattle Post
Egypt opposition rejects calls for dialogue The Daily Telegraph
One joy and love-inspired Indigo girl from South Africa: Bot The Examiner
Destruction of Timbuktu manuscripts is an offence against th The Guardian
Relief as Mali towns recaptured IRINnews
Factbox: Timbuktu, ancient trading town caught up in Mali's Reuters
DI Writes to Prez Mahama All Africa
Obama’s Year of Iran Project Syndicate
Algeria trouble with Islamists not over: Two guards killed i Middle East Online
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An 'Afghan redneck' creates art in a war zone CNN
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Rebels torch priceless ancient manuscripts before fleeing Ti Mail Guardian South Africa
Washington casts wary eye at Muslim Brotherhood Boston Herald
U.S. should rethink role in North Africa Baltimore Sun

Bilateral meeting between NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and the Jordanian Foreign Foreign Minister, Mr. Nasser Judeh, at NATO Headquarters.

Jordan reels over Syrian refugee crisis

Vice President Joe Biden talks with President Barack Obama and Rob Nabors, Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs, during a meeting in the Vice President's West Wing Office, Dec. 31, 2012.

The fears of fearless white men

Karzai at the 2011 Afghan Independence Day in Kabul, which is held every year on 19 August to commemorate Afghanistan's independence from British control over its foreign affairs.

Karzai calls for prison torture investigation

From The Runaways to the woods: Cherie Currie carves paths ( The Examiner
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File - Egyptian defendants who face charges relating to the deaths after a soccer match in the Mediterranean city of Port Said Feb. 1, 2012, chant slogans inside a cage during their trial at a court house in Cairo Egypt, Tuesday, April 17, 2012.

Death sentences over Egypt football massacre

File - Indian peacekeepers with the UN mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), deployed to the country's North Kivu Province, stand guard over Bunagana and the rebel stronghold of Runyonyi, as fighting continues between the M23 splinter group and Government FARDC forces, 23 May, 2012.

UN to expand DR Congo peacekeeping mission

US lifts ban on women in frontline combat

US lifts ban on women in frontline combat

Bill Gates and SPD make plans to fight hunger Deutsche Welle
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Egypt opposition rejects Morsi's talks offer Al Jazeera
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Mumbai monolith epitomises need for post-2015 agenda to tack The Guardian
Global research team decodes genome sequence of 90 chickpea PhysOrg
Adebayor: 'I'm here to help Togo win' Al Jazeera
Morsi Underlines Importance of Development in Africa All Africa
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'Operation Puerto' trial opens Al Jazeera
Mozambique flooding creates displacement crisis IRINnews
Iran says monkey sent to space Al Jazeera
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