Rollout of the U.N.-African Union force has been slow, and equipment is lacking. But expectations remain high.
A Russian-made Mi-8 chopper hovers over the scorched remains of this Darfur village, half-deserted since a government air raid destroyed scores of homes.
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The city plans to close it and concentrate air traffic at a facility scheduled to open in 2011. A referendum seeks to keep it open.
Gabriele Leech-Anspach was a young mother with a toddler when Soviet authorities suddenly imposed a blockade on West Berlin in 1948, cutting off all road, train and boat access and leaving 2.2 million Berliners stranded on an island of the new Cold War.
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A senior police official said the father and son are being questioned about poor security at the factory.
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Spc. Richard R. Medina Torres, 25, said he entered Mexico with his personal weapons by mistake after taking a wrong turn on the highway.
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The collective wealth of Britain's 1,000 richest people went up by nearly 15 percent last year, and more than half the country's 75 billionaires are foreign-born, according to a list published by the Sunday Times newspaper.
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Police have found a woman missing since 1984, who told authorities that she had given birth to at least six children after being repeatedly raped by her father.
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A North Korean defector tried to set himself on fire to halt the Olympic torch relay through Seoul, while thousands of police guarded the flame today from protesters blasting China's treatment of North Korean refugees.
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An Austrian woman has told police that she was held prisoner in a cellar for almost 24 years by her father, who repeatedly raped her and fathered at least seven children.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai escaped unhurt after an assassination attempt during an official celebration in the capital, Kabul, on Sunday.
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The Olympic torch relay concluded in the South Korean capital on Sunday marked by sporadic clashes between pro-and anti-China demonstrators and a self-immolation attempt.
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Key incidents during the progress of the Olympic torch around the world, and the stages to come.
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Chinese police arrested a man on a flight who said he wanted to hijack the plane and then said he meant the threat as a joke, local media reported on Sunday.
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Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak says the country's embattled prime minister must step down to battle corruption allegations.
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The oldest active ship in the U.S. Navy, the USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier, made its final departure from Japan on Wednesday to be decommissioned after nearly half a century of service.
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A teenager claims a picture he took while attending a wedding at a Scottish castle proves ghosts exist.
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China struggled to keep roads open to provide a lifeline for quake survivors, while the government warned that rebuilding after the disaster would be 'arduous.'
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The party of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi denounced the extension of her house arrest and said Wednesday it would launch an appeal, while foreign donors said aid for cyclone victims in the military-ruled nation will continue.
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As the death toll in China continues to soar, the government is warning that rebuilding the earthquake-ravaged central province of Sichuan will be an "arduous" task.
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Dogged by continuing questions over the Maxime Bernier resignation, Prime Minister Stephen Harper stopped off in Bonn, Germany, Wednesday to speak to a UN biodiversity conference on the latest leg of a three-day tour of Europe.
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A court in France has sentenced a husband and wife to jail for life in a series of sex murders of girls and women between 12 and 21 years of age.
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The UN will investigate allegations that some peacekeepers and aid workers sexually abused children in conflict-torn countries, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday.
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The first weather reports are in from Canada's $37-million weather station on Mars, showing temperatures hitting a high of -30 Celsius, and a low of -80.
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With millions of people downstream threatened, soldiers and engineers are at work and evacuations continue.
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Protests by grieving parents are forcing Chinese officials to address a growing political backlash over shoddy construction of public schools.
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Ehud Barak urged Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to remove himself from his post pending the outcome of a corruption investigation.
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Foreign aid workers face administrative hurdles erected by the junta and an economy warped by years of misrule.
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From her home in Brussels, Malika El Aroud has become one of the most prominent Internet jihadists in Europe.
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About 80,000 people were evacuated today from downstream of an unstable earthquake-created dam that is threatening to collapse, and troops rushed to carve a trench to drain the water before it floods the valley.
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But 15 months after the U.S. military poured reinforcements into Iraq's worst battlefields to regain control over them, families like the Murads are a tiny minority. Of some 5.1 million Iraqis uprooted from their homes, some 78,180 fewer than 1 percent had returned by March 31, according to the International Organization for Migration, an intergovernmental humanitarian group based in Switzerland.
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Police responding to reports of a capsized speedboat discovered the bodies of four people believed to be Haitian immigrants in bloody, shark-infested waters between Florida and the Bahamas, authorities said on Tuesday.
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