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China now more popular than the U.S., poll says
World NowChina has grown more popular than the United States, according to a recently released poll that quizzed more than 24,000 people about whether countries and the European Union affected the world for good or for ill.... -
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Cesaria Evora dies at 70; Grammy-winning singer known as the 'Barefoot Diva'
Cesaria Evora, who started singing as a teenager in bayside bars on the West African island nation of Cape Verde in the 1950s and won a Grammy Award in 2004 after she finally took her music to stages around the world, died Saturday. She was 70.
Evora,...Tags: Customs and Tradition, Heart Surgery, Portugal, Heart Problems, Entertainment
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Rights group: Islamic rebels in Nigeria have killed 935 since 2009
World NowHuman Rights Watch reports that the northern Nigerian Islamic rebel group Boko Haram has killed 935 people since 2009:... -
Why is Senegal -- an African success story -- becoming unstable?
World NowUnrest is building in Senegal over President Abdoulaye Wade's plan to seek a third term.... -
With military in disarray, Tuareg rebels gain in northern Mali
World NowTuareg rebels in Mali seize territory as the army falls into disarray after Thursday's military coup that ousted the government of President Amadou Toumani Toure.... -
Who are the Tuareg and how do they fit into the coup in Mali?
World NowThe Tuareg are nomadic people in much of the central Sahara and Sahel. They’ve been romanticized as “the blue men of the desert” because of the indigo dye used in their traditional flowing garments. They have a common language, Tamasheq,... -
Asylum claims hit record high from Syria, Tunisia, Ivory Coast
World NowMore people clamored for asylum from countries in Arab Spring tumult, part of the global trends that pushed a 20% jump in applications to industrialized nations last year. The increase was observed by the United Nations refugee agency, which released a... -
Mali is cut off by its neighbors. What will blocking the borders do?
World NowA coalition of West African nations is closing off the borders of Mali, condemning it for a recent military coup that ousted its president. How could that affect the landlocked country? Blocking the borders means that Mali will be starved for gas and... -
Tuareg rebels in Mali declare independent state
World NowTuareg rebels who recently captured northern Mali in a stunning military advance declared their own independent state. The state, which the rebels call Azawad, was immediately dismissed by France, the former colonial power in the region. It was also... -
Guinea-Bissau military arrests Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Jr.
World NowMilitary officials in the tiny West African coastal nation known for its illegal drug trade said Friday that Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Jr. had been arrested on accusations of plotting with Angola to crush his country’s military.... -
Millions in Sahel are short on food; aid agencies scrape for cash
World NowAid agencies put out an S.O.S. on Monday, saying they have fallen far short on funding to feed people in the Sahel area of West Africa, a shortfall that could lead to millions of people starving....
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