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Tigers at Orioles July 15, 2012 Peralta plays 1st game in Tigers' loss to Marlins
Comment () Tweet MIAMI (AP) — Detroit's Jhonny Peralta played in his first game since completing a 50-game suspension, going 1 for 4 with an RBI in the Tigers' 3-2 loss to the Miami Marlins on... (photo: Creative Commons / Keith Allison) US News
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A destroyed fuel tanker is left behind after rioters torched a fuel station in Khartoum, Sudan, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013. Sudan fuel protests: '50 shot dead'
Security forces in Sudan have shot dead at least 50 people in protests over fuel subsidy cuts, human rights have said. More protests are expected in the capital Khartoum on Friday after Muslim... (photo: AP / Abd Raouf) BBC News
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Former Liberian President Charles Taylor, center between guards, awaits the start of the prosecution's closing arguments during his trial at the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in Leidschendam Tuesday Feb. 8, 2011. Taylor's lawyer stormed out of court Tuesday after judges refused to accept a written summary of the former Liberian president's defense case at the end of his war crimes trial. British attorney Courtenay Griffiths ignored judges at the Special Tribunal for Sierra Leone who ordered him to stay in court after unprecedented angry exchanges erupted before closing arguments in the three-year case. "How will posterity judge the credibility of this court if, at this 11th hour, they prevented Mr. Taylor from presenting ... 90 percent of his closing arguments?" Griffiths said outside court. He said he refused to "lend legitimacy to proceedings" by staying. Judges uphold 50-year term for Sierra Leone war crimes
PARIS -- An international panel of appeals judges on Thursday unanimously upheld a 50-year jail sentence against Charles G. Taylor, Liberia's former president, for war crimes and crimes against... (photo: AP / Jerry Lampen) Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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In this May 16, 2012 photo, Islamist rebels from the Ansar Dine faction prepare to pray in the desert just outside Gao, Mali. Mali rebels suspend talks with government
Related Articles US restores some development aid to Mali cut after coup 07 Sep 2013 Oumar Tatam Ly Mali's first post-war Prime Minister 06 Sep 2013 Mali goes to the polls for presidential run-off 11... (photo: AP / Diakaridia Dembele) The Daily Telegraph
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Ruling party African National Congress (ANC) president Jacob Zuma looks back over his shoulder, during the nominations for the new leadership of their elective conference at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa, on Monday, Dec. 17, 2012. South Africa's African National Congress, the nation's governing party, has begun accepting nominations for its top officials. At their meeting Monday, officials announced that there would be only two candidates contesting to be the party's president: Current President Jacob Zuma and Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe. Zuma backs Kenyatta, Ruto in tiff with ICC
Related articles Lawyers tell ICC Ruto is needed at home African leaders to debate ICC exit Hague trial keeps Kenyans mesmerised Kenyatta ‘distressed’ as Ruto’s trial begins In this article Companies... (photo: AP / Themba Hadebe) Business Day
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