PARIS (AP) - France has a history of intervention in Africa, where it was a colonial power for decades and still maintains several military sites and has hundreds of troops across the continent, including Senegal, Ivory Coast, Chad and Gabon. (Source... [Full Article]
BEIJING (AP) - Beijing-based artist Liu Yi is working on a series of black-and-white portraits he knows will never be shown in a Chinese gallery. His varied subjects - men and women, young and old, smiling and pensive - have one thing in common: They... [Full Article]
WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Joe Biden says he's interested in technology that would keep a gun from being fired by anyone other than the person who bought it. He says evidence shows such technology may have curtailed what happened last mont... [Full Article]
LONDON (Reuters) - The Bank of England kept its powder dry on Thursday, voting as expected not to buy more government bonds despite the economy teetering on the verge of another contraction. After a two-day meeting, the BoE's nine-member Monetar... [Full Article]
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Lance Armstrong has agreed to an interview with Oprah Winfrey in which he is to address allegations he used performance-enhancing drugs during a career in which he won seven Tour de France titles. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - The fiercest winter storm to hit the Mideast in years brought a rare foot of snow to Jordan on Wednesday, caused fatal accidents in Lebanon and the West Bank, and disrupted traffic on the Suez Canal in Egypt. At least eight peopl... [Full Article]
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - The fiercest winter storm to hit the Mideast in years has unleashed deadly flash flooding in the West Bank, dumped a rare foot of snow on desert Jordan, and disrupted traffic on the Suez Canal in Egypt. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
ZAATARI, Jordan (AP) - A winter storm is magnifying the misery for tens of thousands of Syrians fleeing the country's civil war, turning a refugee camp into a muddy swamp where howling winds tore down tents and exposed the displaced residents to... [Full Article]
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) - Google's executive chairman is getting a firsthand look at how students at North Korea's top university use the Internet - including Google. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - The Palestinian self-rule government is in "extreme jeopardy" because of an unprecedented financial crisis, largely because Arab countries have failed to send hundreds of millions of dollars in promised aid, the P... [Full Article]
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