Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the signing of a decree setting up a transitional government in Mauritania, which he hopes will pave the way for the holding of free and fair presidential elections next month.

The United States has shipped about 40 tons of small arms and munitions to Somalia in the last two months to help the country's transitional government fight off a challenge from Islamist militants, a senior American official has revealed.

At least three people were killed and three others wounded when clan militias attacked militias of a rival clan in Adale district, local sources reported.

Guinea-Bissauans hope a presidential election process that opened with a political killing will end with a peacefully elected leader who will help move the country toward long-elusive civilian rule and stability.

Rivers State militant, Mr Solomon Ndigbara, who goes by the moniker Osama Bin Laden, was the first to accept the federal government's offer of amnesty yesterday when he laid down his weapons and formally handed them over to the Inspector

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Police are searching for a man who snuck into a suburban Jefferson County home early Friday morning and raped the woman living there.

Three people were killed and seven others injured in a drive-by shooting Saturday evening outside of a Pico Rivera pizza restaurant where a motorcycle group was holding a fundraiser, authorities said.

Saturday was the hottest day of 2009. News 4's Ray Preston went to Busch Stadium and other spots around the St.

A shootout between police and gunmen in a central Mexican state killed 12 people.

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Hours after the House passed landmark legislation meant to curb greenhouse gas emissions and create an energy-efficient economy, President Barack Obama on Saturday urged senators to show courage and follow suit.

Brazil has ended the search for more bodies from the Air France jet that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean last month, calling the task "impossible," but the search for the jet's flight recorders will go on.

Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said he was the victim of "a coup" and a "brutal kidnapping" by soldiers, and President Barack Obama said he was "dee ...