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ABUJA, Nigeria, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Nigeria has issued international arrest warrants for two former government leaders under former President Olusegun Obasanjo, police said Thursday.
With one of the strongest Under-20 sides in U.S. history, the Red, White and Blue were eliminated from the 2003 Youth World Cup on this day in history after losing to Argentina 2-1 in the quarterfinals. The U.S. finished in 5th place. The best finish since 1989.
Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Crude oil tumbled for an eighth day, the longest stretch in six years, as the dollar gained against the euro, curbing investor appetite for commodities.
I don’t know about you, but my Human Rights Day awareness started all too early. In the car driving to work news streamed in that Ugandan politicians were working to implement a death penalty for homosexuality.
Vernon Jackson, one of the government's key witnesses during last summer's corruption trial of former Rep. William Jefferson , had his sentence reduced Friday from 87 months to 40 months.
The Associated Press' Jon Gambrell is moving from Little Rock to Nigeria, while reporter Jeremy Peppas has landed in McSweeney's.
Platts â The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries crude oil production rose to 28.94 million barrels per day in November, an increase of 50,000 b/d from an estimated October level of 28.89 million b/d, a Platts survey of OPEC and oil industry officials and analysts showed Friday.
The head of the U.S. Episcopal Church is set to debate a more conservative cleric as part of a Dallas lecture series. Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori will share the stage Saturday with the retired Bishop of Colorado, the Rev. William C. Frey, at St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church in Dallas.
DALLAS—A Nigerian couple faces charges of forcing a widow from their country to work as an indentured servant for nearly a decade in Texas.
By Andrew Dixon - MIAMI, FL (Dec 10th, 2009) USSoccerPlayers -- Wow look at all this mail in the mailbag! My man Zeke in DC writes: Aren't you due for a One Grown Man's Opinion? Yeah, I think my editor was saying the same thing? Davey B sent me something from "Front Row at the Staples Center." He writes: "What else do I have to do to show that I want to be in MLS?"...
Oxford University-educated Nigerian artist and photographer Adeniyi Olagunju , who’s studying for his MFA at TCU, is one of several local artists –– and three TCU MFA candidates –– who’ll be exhibiting work at Gallery 414 as part of a new group show.
Assemblyman John Pérez, an openly gay Latino Democrat from Los Angeles, made history Thursday when he was unanimously chosen by the Assembly's Democratic Caucus to succeed Karen Bass as the lower house's leader. Pérez, a freshman lawmaker who is expected to...
VIEW SLIDESHOW DENVER - She traveled more than 6,800 miles and it took her 13 years, but Adesola Owolabi will walk across the stage at Metro State College this Sunday and get her diploma.
Last week's apparent assassination attempt on Guinea junta leader Captain Moussa Dadis Camara by rivals within the military is the latest escalation of the worsening political crisis in this West African country. The gunman, Camara's aide Lt. Abubakar Diakite, has since gone into hiding.
DAKAR, 11 December 2009 (IRIN) - Health officials and aid agencies in Guinea will mount the fifth polio vaccination drive this year from 12 to 16 December. The once polio-free country has recorded 37 cases since April.
It’s a pretty good time to be in Antibalas right now.
