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May 25, 2012
JERUSALEM (AP) - Recent rapes blamed on African migrants have ignited a political and emotional backlash against their ballooning numbers,…
May 24, 2012
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Struggling but deserving designers will get a chance to show work inspired by the creativity and history…
May 23, 2012
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - More than a third of the malaria-fighting drugs tested over the past decade in Southeast Asia…
May 21, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Kenya has become one of the world's leading countries in the exploration of geothermal energy...
May 21, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama on Friday said the United States has a "moral imperative" to lead the fight…
May 18, 2012
BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) - President Joyce Banda declared Friday she wants to repeal Malawi's laws against homosexual acts, going against…
May 16, 2012
LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AP) - Convicted war criminal and former Liberian President Charles Taylor said during his sentencing hearing Wednesday that…
May 13, 2012
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - Ugandan forces captured a senior commander of Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army after a brief fight…
May 11, 2012
South Africa's former president, FW de Klerk, caused national outrage after defending apartheid during a TV interview...
May 10, 2012
(AP) - With the exception of South Africa, much of Africa harbors a deep stigma against homosexuality...
May 9, 2012
JUBA, South Sudan (AP) -- Sudan resumed its aerial bombardment of South Sudan, violating international calls for a cessation of…
May 7, 2012
In the city of Kano, Nigeria, members of the Islamic sharia police have decided to take the love lives of…
May 4, 2012
SAO PAULO (AP) - Brazil's top court has backed sweeping affirmative action programs used in more than 1,000 universities across…
May 2, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - About 15 million premature babies are born every year -- more than 1 in 10 of the…
April 26, 2012
LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AP) - In a historic ruling, an international court convicted former Liberian President Charles Taylor on Thursday of…
April 24, 2012
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) ' South Sudan's president said its northern neighbor has 'declared war' on the world's newest nation, just…
April 24, 2012
DJEMA, Central African Republic (AP) - Ugandan foot soldiers who have spent years searching for the man are starting to…
April 16, 2012
BOSTON (AP) - Trailing the leaders by 200 yards when the Boston Marathon slogged through Heartbreak Hill, Wesley Korir passed…
April 13, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - Madonna says she's happy that Malawi's former vice president is now leading the country...
April 12, 2012
BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) - An investigation has been opened into the 2011 death of an activist who had criticized Malawi's…