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BEIJING - China on Friday expressed concern over the security of its citizens in the Philippines and hope that the Philippine side will refrain from actions that will escalate tensions. Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei made the remarks at…
Olivie Kasongo, 33, at a clinic in the capital, Kinshasa, holds her second set of twins. She has seven children total. The family lives on U.S.$30 a month, which Kasongo's husband earns as a policeman. Norway comes in at…
Taylor's Daughter Defends Her Dad Charles Taylor only smiled once during the court hearing in the Netherlands before he was found guilty of aiding and abetting during the bloody civil war in Sierre Leone. Looking up, the warlord, who…
C China has offered South Sudan $8 billion in development funds for road, hydropower, infrastructure and agriculture projects, South Sudan's information minister told Reuters on Saturday. The loan came after South Sudan President Salva Kiir visited Beijing to secure support…
Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir has ruled out talks with South Sudan on the simmering border conflict that has prompted fears of all-out war. He was speaking during a visit to the major oil field and border town of Heglig, which…
You may not know Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria's Finance Minister, but that may soon change. The World Bank is soon to select its new leader next week and many insiders are wondering if the bank's board of directors will break tradition…
Water and Sanitation in Africa Ruby Pratka In the weeks leading up to the U.N. observation of World Water Day (March 22), U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon announced a major achievement. Nearly 90 percent of the world's population now have access…
KIGALI, Rwanda — Eighteen years ago this week (Friday April 6), Rwanda plunged into genocide, 100 days in which some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were massacred and the country was battered by civil war. In the past 17 years…
A resurgent job market that is lifting the U.S. economy out of the doldrums, sending the stock market to its highest point in years isn't going to return Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas and their neighbors to robust levels immediately.…
Kabul, Afghanistan -- As the U.S. military pursues charges against the Army sergeant accused of killing Afghan civilians in what commanders say was a freelance rampage, a new question has arisen: Who was victim No. 17? Staff Sgt. Robert Bales…
Moulkheir Mint Yarba returned from a day of tending her master's goats out on the Sahara Desert to find something unimaginable: Her baby girl, barely old enough to crawl, had been left outdoors to die. The usually stoic mother —…
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