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It is the only sub-Saharan stop in President Obama's trip this week, a choice that analysts say acknowledges its democratic and economic gains.
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The president promises at the Italy G-8 summit that the U.S. will lead on climate change, but familiar obstacles -- compounded by the global recession -- produce familiar results. >>
Nuclear disarmament will top the agenda as President Obama meets with Russian leaders. After Moscow, Obama will attend a summit of the Group of 8 nations and visit Ghana. >>
Japan's Yukiya Amano is the winner in a months-long competition against a South African to head the International Atomic Energy Agency. He is believed to agree with the U.S. stance on Iran. >>
The 14-year-old girl believed to be the only survivor of a Yemenia jetliner crash off Comoros was thrown from the plane amid darkness, she tells her father. >>
The Airbus carrying 153 people plunged into the ocean off the island nation of Comoros. Problems with the plane were pointed out in 2007. >>
An airliner belonging to Yemeni state carrier Yemenia that was carrying 153 people crashed into choppy seas as it came in to land on the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros today, officials said. >>
Some poor Kenyans can't afford to seek treatment, as public hospitals, strapped for funds, detain patients who are unable to pay their bills, sometimes for months. >>
Some call the vuvuzela a South African tradition; others want the noisemakers banned when the country hosts next year's World Cup. >>
Congo: Rebels target children / Pakistan: Taliban blast in Kashmir / Kenya: Somalis pour into refugee camp / Serbia: Kosovars charged / Italy: Woman passes gondolier test / Cambodia: Editor convicted >>
The arms assistance is aimed at helping Somali leaders fend off Islamic militants. The step is a sign of wider U.S. commitment. >>
The military support and stepped-up humanitarian assistance are aimed at helping to sustain a transitional government under pressure from Islamic militants. The U.S. hopes others will follow suit. >>
Shabab, an Islamic insurgent group, claims responsibility for the attack, the latest violence in a seesaw battle with government forces for control of the African nation. >>
Amnesty International chief says President Robert Mugabe's ruling party regards violence as a political tool and has no plans to prosecute those responsible for election bloodshed last year. >>
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South Africa's team, Bafana Bafana, is seen as mediocre at best. But its multiracial fans see more to the sport: national pride and unity, especially with the nation hosting the World Cup next year. >>
COLUMN ONE
Wrecked cars litter a neighborhood of the capital. Specialized workers take pride in doing whatever it takes to restore them, and sometimes that means stretching vehicles between trees. >>
Aid organizations were expelled in March after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for President Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir. >>
Gabon: Interim president is sworn in / Russia: Judge killed in Ingushetia / Japan: Probe crash lands on moon / Italy: Kadafi visits / Ireland: Bishops say they are 'ashamed' about child abuse >>
Royal Dutch Shell has agreed to pay $15.5 million in the 1995 slayings of nine environmental and human rights advocates. Local ethnic groups hope it is a first step in righting 50 years of wrongs. >>
Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani appears in a New York court in connection with the 1998 bombings that killed 224 people at U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya. >>
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President Obama is bypassing Kenya, his father's homeland, on his first official visit to the region, and then there's the postponed direct air connection. Some say Kenya has only itself to blame. >>
Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani is to appear in a New York court today in connection with the 1998 bombings that killed 224 people at U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya. >>
OBITUARIES
He was the world's longest-serving leader, beginning his presidency in December 1967. >>
BELIEFS
The event raised more than $100,000 that will be used in refugee camps for victims of the conflict and for domestic education about the violence, among other projects. >>
A Malibu veteran's quest to have the U.S. clean up a now-trashed site of Pacific theater carnage is the subject of a TV documentary to be shown this week. >>
BLAKE MYCOSKIE: TOMS SHOES
Entrepreneur Blake Mycoskie has, to date, given away 140,000 pairs of shoes in the U.S., Argentina, Ethiopia and South Africa. >>
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Rep. Donald Payne makes a quick visit to Mogadishu to meet with the new government, and despite an attempted mortar attack on his plane, he says 'we shouldn't focus on the . . . negative.' >>
OBITUARIES
Cherif Guellal, an Algerian resistance fighter, businessman and diplomat who cut a glamorous figure in Washington society and was the longtime companion of a former Miss America, died of leukemia Tuesday at a hospital in Algiers. He was 76. >>
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Richard Goldstone of South Africa, a Jew, says he will talk to all the victims, on both sides. His appointment poses a policy question for Israel's new government. >>
The battle over Muhajeria in southern Darfur, which saw rebel rivalry, tribal tension as well as government intervention, points to the impunity in the region and the complexity of the conflict. >>
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After several days of rallies in the capital, Bashir flies to Darfur, where he rails against the international arrest warrant and plays to the crowd of thousands of supporters. >>
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