• African Leaders to Meet As AU Celebrates 50th Anniversary
  
  African Union officials says the leaders will reflect on the continent’s progress over the past 50 years and the path forward Read more...

 

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• Suicide Bombers Attack Niger Military Barracks, Uranium Mine
  VOA has learned that one attacker in Agadez remains on the loose and is holding a few officers hostage at a military base in Agadez Read more...
   

• Doctors Without Borders Shuts Clinic in Northern Nigeria
  Decision comes after five gunmen hijacked an aid vehicle on Saturday Read more...
   

• Rape Plagues Ivory Coast Long After Conflict's End
  Such attacks now are occurring outside context of armed conflict, and they show security situation for country’s women remains bleak Read more...
   

• UN, World Bank Say Development is Key to Congo Peace
  UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visits Goma in eastern DRC, accompanied by World Bank President Jim Yong Kim Read more...
   

• Analysis: Salafists Crackdown Tests Tunisia's Stability
  Secular Tunisians fear for civil liberties, order as radical Islamists reject moderate Islamist-led government, elections Read more...
   

• HRW: Mozambique Families Displaced by Foreign Mining
  Report highlights plight of more than 1,400 families who were moved to make way for foreign coal mining operations in the province of Tete Read more...
   

• Haitian girl's 'big school' dream
  The light that streams through the narrow slit in the concrete wall is an ever-present reminder of the earthquake that struck her home in Haiti in 2010 and devastated the already impoverished country. Still, Rose Matrie has big dreams for her future. Read more...

• 'Sickening attack' shakes Britain
  
  Two men used a meat cleaver to hack a British soldier to death in broad daylight before dumping his body in the middle of a London road. "This British soldier is an eye for an eye, a tooth for tooth," said one of the attackers. FULL STORY | SUSPECT ON VIDEO   | PHOTOS | ANALYSIS | LATEST NEWS
   

• Syria tension destabilizing Lebanon
  (CNN) -- An uneasy calm prevailed Thursday morning in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli where days of clashes between supporters and opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad left 16 people dead and wounded more than 156. Read more... | Map: Regional rivalries
   

• Bergen: 9 myths about drones and Guantanamo
  (CNN) -- On Thursday, President Barack Obama is scheduled to deliver a major speech in Washington about his administration's counterterrorism policies, focusing on the rationale and legal framework for the controversial CIA drone program and his plans to wind down the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay.  Read more...
   

• Blogger sentenced to Turkish prison for blasphemy
  Istanbul (CNN) -- A Turkish-Armenian blogger vowed to appeal a day after an Istanbul court sentenced him to more than a year in prison for blasphemy. Read more...
   

• Ill woman at center of abortion debate in El Salvador
  San Salvador, El Salvador (CNN) -- A 22-year-old woman in El Salvador, pregnant and suffering from illnesses, has become a flashpoint in the country's debate on abortion. Read more...
   

• Stockholm sees fourth night of rioting
  (CNN) -- Sweden's capital endured a fourth consecutive night of rioting Wednesday, with fires and clashes with authorities decreasing in the original flashpoint in the northern suburbs but increasing to the south, police said. Read more...
   

• Japanese man becomes oldest to climb Everest
  Kathmandu, Nepal (CNN) -- An 80-year-old Japanese man on Thursday became the oldest person to reach the top of Mt. Everest, officials said. Read more...
   

• Prostitutes gunned down in troubled Pakistan province
  Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Gunmen shot dead five people, including four prostitutes, in Pakistan's troubled Balochistan province Thursday morning, police said. Read more...
   

• 5-year-old girl killed by suicide jumper in South Korea
  Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- A 5-year-old South Korean girl was killed when a man who jumped from his 11th floor apartment landed on top of her, police said. Read more...
   

• Uranium mine attacked by suicide bombers in Niger
  Suicide bombers struck a mine run by French nuclear group Areva and a military barracks in Niger on Thursday, killing and wounding several people in separate attacks. Read more...
   

• Obama defends U.S. drone policy, war on terror
  UNITED States (U.S.) President Barack Obama has as... Read more...

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