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• Ex-Finnish president wins Nobel Peace Prize
OSLO, Norway - Finland's ex-president Martti Ahtisaari won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his efforts to build a lasting peace from Africa and Asia to Europe and the Middle East. The Norwegian Nobel Committee said it honored Ahtisaari for ...
• South Africa will sell ivory to Japan, China
CAPE TOWN, South Africa - The South African government said Thursday that it will press ahead with plans to sell just over 51 tons of ivory to China and Japan under a special exemption to the international ban on the trade. The Convention on ...
• Bodies of migrants wash ashore in Yemen
The Gulf of Aden between Yemen and the Horn of Africa already is notorious for Somali piracy. The hijacking of a freighter carrying a cargo of heavy weapons two weeks ago heightened concern over the chaos in a key shipping route — and prompted NATO ...
• A wide and varied career
Those talks, based on the format of peacemaking efforts in South Africa and Northern Ireland, included 16 delegates from the feuding groups. They "agreed to consult further" and begin reconciliation talks. "He managed to get 36 senior Iraqis to ...
• Asteroid reportedly streaks over Africa
Click through the highlights from September’s outer-space imagery, including glittering galaxies as well as Earth’s hurricanes viewed from on high. The space rock , designated asteroid 2008 TC3, was thought to be 3 to 15 feet (1 to 5 meters) in ...