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A new South African dissent party was born after the force-out of president Thabo Mbeki. The South African Democratic Congress…

05.10.12

Iraq Wants US Departure By 2011

Iraq wants to remove any possibility that U.S. troops could remain after 2011 from a proposed security agreement now under…

06.19.19

Syria Calls US Attack ‘Cowboy Politics’

Families in this village near the Iraqi border buried loved ones Monday who they said were killed when the U.S.…

06.19.19

Iran Admits to Arming ‘Liberation Armies’

Iran is supplying weapons to “liberation armies” in the Middle East, a top Revolutionary Guards commander said, offering the first…

06.19.19

US Airstrike Kills 9 Afghan Soldiers

A U.S.-led coalition airstrike hit an Afghan army checkpoint Wednesday, killing nine soldiers, Afghan officials said, and the American military…

06.19.19

U.S. Drops Charges Against 5 Guantanamo Prisoners

The Pentagon said Tuesday it has dropped war-crimes charges against five Guantanamo Bay detainees after the former prosecutor in their…

06.19.19

Hurricane Omar Moves Through Northern Caribbean

Hurricane Omar was quickly moving away from the northern Leeward Islands early Thursday after passing through the area as a…

06.19.19

G-8 Will Hold Summit on Financial Crisis

Leaders of the Group of Eight major industrial countries said Wednesday they will meet “in the near future” for a…

06.19.19

Gates Asks Allies to Send Troops to Afghanistan

Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Wednesday urged Eastern European leaders to shift their military efforts from Iraq to Afghanistan, where…

06.19.19

IMF: World Economy to Slow Sharply, Led by…

The world economy will slow sharply this year and next, with the United States likely sliding into recession reflecting mounting…

06.19.19

Fatwa Alert: Zardari Condemned for Flirting with Sarah…

Pakistani President, Asif Ali Zardari, is the most recent public figure to have a fatwa issued against him. The fatwa,…

06.19.19

Pakistani Troops Fire on US Helicopter Again

KABUL, Afghanistan — Pakistani troops fired at American reconnaissance helicopters patrolling the Afghan-Pakistan border Thursday, heightening tensions as the U.S.…

06.19.19

Wyclef Jean and Matt Damon Lend a Hand…

Cries of adulation — and hunger — followed Haitian-born singer Wyclef Jean and actor Matt Damon as they toured flood-ravaged…

06.19.19

World’s Fastest Man Is Hometown Hero for a…

Usain Bolt returned to Jamaica this week after heading to Brussels, Belgium for the Van Damme memorial last Friday. Bolt captured…

09.11.08

Nigerian ‘Blood Oil’ Crisis

Nigeria’s president called Thursday for help finding a way to fingerprint crude oil stocks in order to combat the theft…

06.19.19

Ethnic Cleansing, Not the Surge Responsible for Drop…

Satellite images taken at night show heavily Sunni Arab neighborhoods of Baghdad began emptying before a U.S. troop surge in…

06.19.19

White South African Man Released After Throwing Black…

A farmer who threw the body of his fired worker into a lions enclosure is out on parole after less…

06.19.19

Snoop to Star in Bollywood Film

Snoop Dogg has gone Bollywood. He does the rap to open the movie “Singh is Kinng,” a Bollywood flick that…

06.19.19

Isreal Will Boycott UN Racism Conference

Israel will almost surely boycott the next U.N. racism conference in Geneva, its ambassador said Wednesday, warning that the meeting…

06.19.19

Zuma Wants Fraud Charges Dismissed

South African president-in-waiting Jacob Zuma made a bid Monday to get corruption and fraud charges against him thrown out of…

06.19.19