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Published: October 11, 2007, 12:00 am

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Africa's nearly two dozen wars in recent decades have robbed the continent of about $18 billion a year that could have gone to helping one of the world's poorest regions build stronger economies, according to a report being released Thursday.

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Cuban Doctor Among Eight Honored at White House

Published: November 6, 2007, 12:00 am

Tags: Cuban, Doctor, Among, Eight, Honored, White, House, Winnie Biscet, George W Bush, Fidel Castro, Petr Kolar, The White House, Cuba, Illinois, Benjamin L Hooks, Bill Clinton, Brian Lamb, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Francis Collins, Gary S Becker, Harper Lee, Harry S Truman, Havana

President Bush yesterday aimed to shine a new spotlight on political repression and the dissident movement in Cuba, bestowing the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Oscar El as Biscet, 46, a prominent human rights activist who has been ailing in a Cuban jail since 2002.

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U.S. Officials Divulge Reports On Confidential U.N. Audits

Published: February 17, 2008, 12:00 am

Tags: U S, Officials, Divulge, Reports, Confidential, U N, Audits, United Nations, Jacques Paul Klein, United States, Liberia, John Bolton, Linda Fawaz, Charles Taylor, Pristina, Zalmay Khalilzad, Bosnia And Herzegovina, Kosovo, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Gaza Strip, Paul Volcker

UNITED NATIONS -- The Bush administration has been posting hundreds of highly confidential U.N. audits and investigation reports on a U.S. government Web site, opening the United Nations' inner workings and some of its more colorful scandals to unusual public scrutiny.

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Bush, Feeling Appreciated Abroad

Published: February 22, 2008, 12:00 am

Tags: Bush, Feeling, Appreciated, Abroad, Africa, George W Bush, United States, Liberia, The White House, Iraq, Dan Bartlett, California, Texas, Asia, Bob Geldof, Charles Taylor, Crawford Texas, Dar Es Salaam, David J Rothkopf, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, John Prendergast, Middle East

MONROVIA, Liberia, Feb. 21 -- They proclaimed George W. Bush Day in Benin, thronged streets by the tens of thousands in Tanzania and christened the George Bush Motorway in Ghana. As he wrapped up his Africa trip in Liberia on Thursday, they sang about him on the radio, crooning his name and...

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African Leaders Plan to Discuss Mugabe's Future

Published: July 1, 2008, 12:00 am

Tags: African, Leaders, Plan, Discuss, Mugabe S, Future, Robert Mugabe, African Union, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Liberia, Hosni Mubarak, Jakaya Kikwete, United States, Darfur, Africa, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Asha Rose Migiro, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, John Kufuor, Moammar Gadhafi

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, June 30 -- African leaders allowed Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to take his seat at a summit here Monday, but controversy over the coercion and violence surrounding his recent reelection prompted some of the leaders to begin discussing how to end his 28-year rule.

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Liberia's New Lap of Luxury

Published: July 25, 2008, 12:00 am