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92 arrested in northern Nigeria after recent religious violence
Nigerian authorities on Friday arrested 92 people allegedly affiliated with a militant Islamist group that the government says is responsible for a string of recent killings in the country's northeast. Police blame the group, Boko Haram, for attacks Wednesday that left three police officers ...read more
Ban 'deeply alarmed' over call for violence
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, distressed over a call to attack the hotel where Ivory Coast's president-elect and U.N. security forces are based, said Thursday that the forces are "authorized to use all necessary means to protect its personnel" and any others at the location. ...read more
Whatever happened to ... ?
As the year draws to a close, writers from CNN.com take a look back at some of their original stories from 2010. Where are the subjects now? How have their situations changed, if any, since the stories were published? Here are a few updates: February 11 No longer a registered se ...read more
Russia's Mikhail Khodorkovsky faces another 6 years in prison
A judge in Moscow sentenced Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former head of Russia's Yukos oil company, and his business partner to 14 years in prison on corruption charges Thursday. The sentence effectively adds six years behind bars for Khodorkovsky, since the judge set the sentence to begin in 2 ...read more
Yemen freeing insurgents under peace deal
Yemen is releasing hundreds of jailed insurgents after the president's directive to free 500 detainees, the country's embassy in Washington announced Thursday. President Ali Abdul Allah Saleh's move is a critical part of the February peace agreement between the government and the Houthi rebe ...read more
China says anti-pornography campaign shut down 60,000 websites
China's anti-pornography campaign shut down more than 60,000 pornographic websites this year, with police investigating almost 2,200 criminal cases, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported Thursday. Wang Chen, director of the Information Office of the State Council, said at a news conferen ...read more
Latin America in 2011: Year of the female politician
The New Year will be big for female politicians in Latin America. Brazil will welcome its first female president in 2011. Laura Chinchilla will enter her second year as president of Costa Rica, Alberto Fujimori's daughter has hopes of following in her father's footsteps in Peru and an incumb ...read more
Well-known governors prepare to leave office
Beginning Saturday and continuing over the next few weeks, some of the nation's most prominent governors will be leaving office as a new crop of state chief executives are sworn in. Among the more well-known governors who will be leaving office: -- Republicans Arnold Schwarzenegger o ...read more
No pardon for Billy the Kid
Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico will not pardon legendary Wild West outlaw Billy the Kid in the death of a law enforcement officer more than a century ago, he said Friday. Richardson made the announcement on ABC's "Good Morning America" the same day he leaves office. The ...read more
Ouattara gives Gbagbo a deadline to step down in Ivory Coast
A three-man West African delegation won't return to Ivory Coast until Monday, when it will ask self-declared President Laurent Gbagbo to relinquish his post or face a military ouster, a representative of the group said Friday. But Gbagbo remained defiant in his claim that he won a November 2 ...read more
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