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By Rep. Howard P. "Buck" McKeonPublished February 24, 2014FoxNews.com Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers stand guard at the main gate of the Parwan Detention Facility Center on...
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LONDON, February 24 (Fitch) The suspension of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Lamido Sanusi and the market reaction to it are the first major test of the more credible macro...
Al Jazeera
- In 1971, US military analyst Daniel Ellsberg leaked thousands of pages of a top-secret study on the Vietnam War to the American press. The , as the leak would come to be called,...

Members of the Nicaraguan Army participate in routine exercises in Managua, Nicaragua, Friday, Sept, 30, 2005. Nicaraguan President Enrique Bolanos has ordered the Army to increase monitoring the San Juan River area that separates Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Costa Rica said earlier this week it would take its neighbor to the International Court of Justice in the Hague to claim unlimited rights to navigate the stretch of river that runs along its northern border.
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (Reuters) - Costa Rica will ask the International Court of Justice to settle a decade-old maritime border dispute with Nicaragua related to...
photo: AP / Esteban Felix
Peru's newly sworn in President Ollanta Humala , right, waves during his ceremonial swearing in at the National Congress in Lima, Peru, Thursday, July 28, 2011.
LIMA (Reuters) - Peru's President Ollanta Humala named his housing minister as his fifth prime minister on Monday in a cabinet shuffle that reappointed his...
photo: AP / Martin Mejia
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, left, arrive for a press conference at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012.
Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday that she is visiting Israel with most of her new cabinet in order to show Germany's friendship with the Jewish state and that her country is working to secure the future of Israel. Merkel was speaking at an...
photo: AP / Michael Sohn
A young male Asiatic lion until about 150 to 200 years ago, the Bengal tiger, along with the Indian leopard, shared most of their habitat, where the Asiatic lion was found in large parts of west and central India along with the Asiatic cheetah, now extirpated from India.
A leopard leaps across an under-construction structure near a furniture market in the Degumpur residential area as a bystander moves out of the way in Meerut on Sunday. Photo: AFP New Delhi: A leopard sparked panic in a north Indian city when it...
photo: Creative Commons / Gangasudhan
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni signs a new anti-gay bill that sets harsh penalties for homosexual sex, in Entebbe, Uganda Monday, Feb. 24, 2014.
As my colleague Alan Cowell reported, the president of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, significantly strengthened Africa’s antigay movement, signing into law a bill imposing harsh sentences for homosexual acts, including life imprisonment in some cases....
photo: AP / Rebecca Vassie
Nigeria President,Goodluck Jonathan, visits the site of the police headquarters bombed by a suicide bomber in Kano, Nigeria, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012.
LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said on Monday his decision to suspend the central bank governor had nothing to do with the governor's exposing corruption in the oil sector. Jonathan suspended Governor Lamido Sanusi on Thursday...
photo: AP / Sunday Alamba
CIA Director-nominee Deputy National Security Adviser for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, John Brennan, second from left, shakes hands with the president's choice for Defense Secretary, former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, second from right, as the president, center, speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 7, 2013, where he made to announcement. At left is Acting CIA Director Michael Morell, at right is current Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel proposed shrinking the Army, closing military bases and making other military-wide savings Monday as part of a broad reshaping of priorities after more than a decade of war. Hagel outlined his vision in a...
photo: AP / Carolyn Kaster