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BAGHDAD (AP) — After nearly nine years, 4,500 American dead, 32,000 wounded and more than $800 billion, U.S. officials formally shut down the war in Iraq – a conflict that U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said was worth the price in blood and money, as it set Iraq on a path to democracy. Panetta stepped […]

FLORENCE, Italy-Gianluca Casseri, a 50-year-old author, went on a shooting spree in a market in Florence, Italy, killing three Senegalese men and wounding two others before killing himself. Casseri was a member of Casa Pound, an intellectual far right Italian organization and an author of fantasy novels. The AFP reports: Walter Veltroni, a lawmaker from […]

A South African woman was caught trying to smuggle cocaine in her dreadlocks on a flight to Bangkok.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama heralded the end of the divisive Iraq war Monday, and warned Iraq’s neighbors that the United States would remain a major player in the region even as it brings its troops home. “Our strong presence in the Middle East endures,” Obama said. “And the United States will never waver in […]

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan started a five-day trip to Haiti on Sunday, arriving just ahead of fellow Chicagoan Oprah Winfrey as they make separate trips to the poor Caribbean country. SEE ALSO: How Saturday Night Live Has Become The Place For Celeb Damage Control Farrakhan told reporters at the […]

NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenyan soldiers and members of an extremist Islamist militant group have been fighting each other in Somalia since Kenya invaded two months ago. Now, their spokesmen are taking the battle onto Twitter, with taunts, accusations and insults being directly traded in a rare engagement on the Internet. SEE ALSO: It Wasn’t My […]

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Ron Duprat, a robust celebrity chef decked out in skull-and-crossbones Crocs and a navy blue apron, pauses from his mango-slicing duties at the Karibe Hotel to introduce what he says is a simple recipe for his impoverished country, still battered nearly two years after a devastating earthquake. SEE ALSO: Sandusky Witness Changed […]

Haitian President Michel Martelly will host Oprah Winfrey when she visits the Caribbean nation. Martelly tells The Associated Press that he hopes Winfrey will serve as an ambassador for Haiti. He says he would like her to help Haiti get more assistance for rebuilding from the 2010 earthquake that displaced hundreds of thousands of people. […]

PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) — More than two decades after the U.S. forced him from power, Manuel Noriega returned to Panama on Sunday as a prisoner and, to many of those he once ruled with impunity, an irrelevant man. Some Panamanians feel hatred for the former strongman and rejected American ally; a few others nostalgia. […]

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Hundreds of supporters of former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo protested outside the International Criminal Court Saturday, saying there can be no peace in his country until he is released. SEE ALSO: 80-Year-Old Faces Criminal Charges For Feeding Ducks?! Busloads of mainly Ivorian protesters from countries including France and Belgium […]

OSLO, Norway (AP) — Three women who fought injustice, dictatorship and sexual violence in Liberia and Yemen accepted the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize on Saturday, calling on repressed women worldwide to rise up against male supremacy. RELATED: Virginia Tech Slain Cop Was Father To Five “My sisters, my daughters, my friends – find your voice,” […]

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — North Africa’s branch of al-Qaida has denied kidnapping three foreign aid workers in Algeria, but confirmed it was behind two other kidnappings in Mali, according to a statement carried by a Mauritanian news agency. SEE ALSO: Why Obama Was Right To Back “Abortion Pill” Restrictions The statement, purportedly by Al-Qaida in […]