EU calls for higher turnout in Mali runoff vote
Malian women walk around a polling station waiting for it to close in Mali’s parliamentary elections in Gao, Northern Mali, Sunday Nov. 24, 2013. Malians trickled in to vote in…
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French parish priest kidnapped in north Cameroon
By ELAINE GANLEY RECROPPED VERSION OF REB103 – This July 2011handout photo provided by the Sceaux city hall, north of Paris, shows French kidnapped priest Georges Vandenbeusch. A French priest…
UNESCO leader re-elected amid budget tightening
Irina Bokova, the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) speaks to the media following the 37th session of the General Conference of UNESCO, in Paris,…
Bitter Morocco-Algeria row before king’s US trip
By PAUL SCHEMM FILE – In this May 19, 2008 file photo, a pro-independence Polisario Front supporter looks on during a military parade as a Western Sahara flag flies in…
US to lose vote at UNESCO, incurs debts
By THOMAS ADAMSON FILE- This Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2013, file photo shows a general view of the UNESCO prior to the opening of General Conference in Paris, France. American influence…
France reinforces Mali troops after kidnap deaths
A coffin bearing the body of one of the two French radio journalists killed in Mali is carried at Roissy Charles de Gaulle Airport in Roissy, north of Paris, Tuesday,…
Correction: Mali-Kidnapping story
By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI and ELAINE GANLEY This combination of undated photos provided by Radio France International shows journalists Ghislaine Dupont, left, and Claude Verlon. French and Malian officials said gunmen…
4 dead, 25 rescued in building collapse in Nigeria
Rescue workers carry a survivor from the rubble of a building under construction which collapsed in Lagos, Nigeria, Monday, Nov, 4. 2013. Emergency officials said casualty figures from the incident…