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BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- Five African presidents seeking to restore Mali's elected government were forced to make a mid-air U-turn and head to Ivory Coast to hold their meeting, after demonstrators supporting the military junta took over the tarmac to stop the jets from landing, officials said....

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- A former militant leader in Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta is linked to a private security company that signed a $103 million deal with the government to patrol the West African nation's waterways against pirates, officials have told The Associated Press....

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- A former militant leader in Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta is linked to a private security company that signed a $103 million deal with the government to patrol the West African nation's waterways against pirates, officials have told The Associated Press....

LONDON (AP) -- Fears of a slowdown in the U.S. and China, the world's two biggest economies, and renewed concerns over Spain's debt hurt markets on Thursday, driving investors to book gains at the end of an otherwise profitable quarter....

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has returned home from Cuba after a five-day round of radiation therapy and says the cancer treatments are going well....

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- One senator warned of a panic. Another said things were going to be hot. Neither gave any details, but that didn't matter: Within minutes of their comments on the radio, hundreds of shops closed, schools canceled classes and seemingly everyone rushed home....

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- The head of a U.N. observer team in Syria cautioned Friday that the mission cannot achieve a permanent end to the violence without genuine talks between the two sides that have been locked in a violent conflict for more than a year....

BAGHDAD (AP) -- Fewer than half the leaders of the Arab world showed up at an Arab summit in Baghdad on Thursday, a snub to the Iraqi government that reflects how trenchantly the sectarian division between Sunnis and Shiites and the rivalry with neighboring Iran define the Middle East's politics today....

MADRID (AP) -- Spain's stock market flirted with seven-year lows Friday as investors continued to worry about the stability of the eurozone's financial system in light of the downgrading by credit ratings agency Moody's of the country's banking industry....

MADRID (AP) -- Spain could decide within days or weeks to ask for a bailout for its troubled banking sector, a step that would make it the fourth country in the 17-member eurozone to seek help since the EU debt crisis broke out....

BEIRUT (AP) -- Laughing for the cameras, the Arab leaders appear nothing if not secure in their power, four longtime members of the Middle East coterie of rulers-for-life....

DUBLIN (AP) -- An elephant called Baby did not want a bath....

DUBLIN (AP) -- An elephant called Baby did not want a bath....

BAGHDAD (AP) -- Sunni Muslim rulers largely shunned an Arab League summit hosted by Shiite-led Iraq on Thursday, illustrating how powerfully the sectarian split and the rivalry with Iran define Middle Eastern politics in the era of the Arab Spring....

PARIS (AP) -- France has barred a group of Muslim clerics, including one of the most prominent voices in Sunni Islam, from entering the country to attend a conference....

HAVANA (AP) -- The spiritual leader of the world's Roman Catholics and the brothers who have carried Cuba along an increasingly solitary Communist path mixed warm smiles with the hard language of their respective camps during Pope Benedict XVI's three-day tour of Cuba....

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- From one of the hiding places where he has been holed up since last month's coup, Mali's president penned a resignation letter and handed it to an emissary to deliver to the country's new leaders, while reporters looked on....

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Myanmar has sent out a surprisingly broad guest list for elections Sunday, hoping to showcase its democratic credentials to the world....

PARIS (AP) -- A French court convicted longtime perfume maker Jean-Paul Guerlain of making racist insults on national television and fined him Thursday (EURO)6,000 ($8,000)....

PARIS (AP) -- A French court convicted longtime perfume maker Jean-Paul Guerlain of making racist insults on national television and fined him Thursday (EURO)6,000 ($8,000)....