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Mugabe seeks support at African summit

SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe sought a boost of political legitimacy at a summit of African leaders Monday after his re-election was widely discredited as a sham. More »

As Guantanamo's last days near, tough choices ahead

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - This was a sleepy Navy outpost before the U.S. began using it to hold prisoners in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks - and it may soon become one again. More »

S. African parliament marks Mandela's 90th birthday

CAPE TOWN, South Africa - Tributes to Nelson Mandela's dignity, humanity and humor poured in at a special sitting of South Africa?s Parliament last Friday to mark the anti-apartheid icon's 90th birthday. More »

International prosecutors seek Congo war crimes trial

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Two former Congolese militia leaders should be tried on war crimes charges for alleged rapes, pillaging and mass murder in a 2003 attack that decimated a village in eastern Congo, international prosecutors argued last Friday. More »


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