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Kenya’s deputy prime minister, Uhuru Kenyatta, took the witness stand at the international criminal court yesterday to deny planning ethnic attacks during the 2007-2008 election violence, in a case that will help define the country’s…

An American fugitive who hijacked a plane in the 1970s lived openly in Guinea-Bissau during the 1980s under his real name, a retired US ambassador to the African nation claims. The former ambassador, John Blacken, said the embassy knew…

Turkey is pressing ahead with plans to impose its own sanctions on Syria, despite European powers backing down from using the UN to punish the regime for its crackdown on the protest movement. The Turkish measures are likely to be…

A Chinese attempt to establish an alternative to the Nobel peace prize appeared to have flopped after just one award ceremony when the government confirmed yesterday that the group overseeing the award had been...The Guardian

Dominique Strauss-Kahn met yesterday with a Frenchwoman who says he tried to rape her, as the two were jointly questioned by investigators deciding on whether to pursue the case. The Paris prosecutor’s office is investigating Tristane…

The first person to reach Michael Jackson’s bedroom after the singer’s personal physician summoned help was asked by the doctor to remove medicines from the singer’s night-stand and from an IV drip before calling police, he told a court in…

Libyan interim government forces recaptured the airport in Sirte, Muammar Gaddafi’s birthplace, yesterday, amid mounting concern for civilians trapped inside the besieged city. National Transitional Council fighters had taken the…

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Libya’s National Oil Corporation is housed in an imposing building near Tripoli’s old royal palace, its concrete and mirrored glass facade a monument to the country’s wealth and a face of modernity in a ramshackle capital. And many of its…