1 year down: American walking from Africa to Chile
By JASON STRAZIUSO In this photo taken Monday, Jan. 28, 2013 and released by the National Geographic Society on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013, journalist Paul Salopek walks across the Afar…
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Suicide car bomber kills 11 soldiers in Egypt
By HAMZA HENDAWI A man and child walk past a crater from a suicide car bomb attack on the road between the border town of Rafah and the coastal city…
Egypt revolutionaries make return to Tahrir Square
By SARAH EL DEEB and TONY G. GABRIEL Anti-government protesters clash with Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi supporters near Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013. Egypt’s revolutionary groups…
Memorial at Egypt’s Tahrir Square sparks protest
By TONY G. GABRIEL In this Sunday, Nov. 17, 2013 photo, Egyptian municipality laborers work on a memorial base two days before the commemoration of deadly clashes with security forces…
Zimbabwe’s president: I’m no British clone
By ANGUS SHAW FILE – In this file photo taken Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013 Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe inspects the guard of honor during the opening of the first session…
South African: archivists study Mandela missives
By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA FILE – In this Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008 file photo former president Nelson Mandela, left, and his ex-wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, right, during the unveiling of a statue…
Egypt Islamist tells army chief to avoid politics
By MAGGIE MICHAEL Abdel-Moneim Aboul-Fotouh talks during interview with the Associated Press at his home in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Nov. 18, 2013. Egypt’s reformist Islamist leader Aboul-Fotouh, who defected from…
4 Somali gunmen in Kenya mall attack ID’d
By JASON STRAZIUSO FILE – In this Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013 file photo, a security officer helps a wounded woman outside the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, after gunmen threw…