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Raul Castro formally given top spot in Cuba

Posted: 20 Apr 2011 05:04 PM PDT

HAVANA -- Raul Castro was named first secretary of Cuba's Communist Party on Tuesday, and his aging brother Fidel was formally removed from the leadership for the first time since the party's creation 46 years ago.Despite raising hopes during the gat ...

Free drugs get big price tag

Posted: 20 Apr 2011 05:04 PM PDT


LONDON -- A global health fund believes millions of dollars worth of its donated malaria drugs have been stolen in recent years, vastly exceeding the levels of theft previously suspected, according to confidential documents obtained by The Associat ...

Gadhafi forces hit Misrata hard with heavy weapons

Posted: 20 Apr 2011 05:07 PM PDT


MISRATA, Libya -- Inside the besieged city of Misrata, spent rockets protrude from the pavement of a parking lot, unarmed teenagers prepare plastic crates of Molotov cocktails, and fighters at roadblocks sit inside empty shipping containers outfitt ...

Elections lead to rioting

Posted: 20 Apr 2011 05:04 PM PDT

KADUNA, Nigeria -- In the time it took to raise a machete or shout the name of a political party, neighbors again became enemies over politics split along religious lines in northern Nigeria.At least 70 people died this week after Muslim mobs targete ...

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