By CELIA W. DUGGER AND ALAN COWELL
After more than 28 years of unbroken power, President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe signed an agreement with the opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Monday to divide the responsibilities for running the troubled country.
By THOM SHANKER
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said the mission was now to expand on security gains, even as U.S. troop levels decreased.
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UN efforts to investigate allegations that Iran tried to make nuclear arms have run into a dead end, with Tehran steadfastly blocking efforts to probe the accusations, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Monday.
By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN
A "peace climb" on Mount Kenya brings together people from the rival ethnic groups that slaughtered one another this year after the disputed election.
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President George W. Bush on Monday lavished the full White House treatment on Ghanian President John Kufuor, a West African ally who holds a kinship with the U.S. president as their two-term tenures near a close.
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Suspected al-Qaida militants killed 12 Mauritanian soldiers Monday, two senior officials said. The attack, which came after the terror group promised to avenge the country's recent coup, was the worst suffered by the military in three years.
By BARRY BEARAK / AP
A high court judge Friday set aside corruption charges against Jacob Zuma, at least temporarily clearing his way to become the next president of South Africa.
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Accusations that a soccer player was using witchcraft during a local match in eastern Congo sparked a riot that killed 13 people, a U.N.-funded radio station reported Monday.
By ETHAN BRONNER
A quiet revolution is stirring in Jenin, once a byword for the extremes of violence between Israelis and Palestinians.
By LYDIA POLGREEN
The World Bank is out of a pipeline project in Chad it started in 2000, and whose purpose had been to persuade the country to dedicate its oil earnings to fighting poverty.
By CELIA W. DUGGER
The tranquillity that prevailed as millions of Angolans went to the polls last week and the acceptance of the outcome by the opposition party, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, or UNITA, set this election apart from Angola's calamitous last vote, in 1992.
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Facing charges of genocide, President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan staged a public relations campaign.
Egypt is relying on an ambitious agricultural project to reinvigorate national food production.
The militant group held a huge celebration after the release of five prisoners from Israel.
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The U.S. military has begun withdrawing the last of the extra brigades that were deployed in 2007.
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