US President Barack Obama is set to announce a $3bn (£1.9bn) plan to boost food security and farm productivity in Africa, US officials say. They say the initiative is aimed at alleviating shortages as world food supplies are being stretched by rising demand in Asia's emerging markets. Food...
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan's Ma Ying-jeou is set to begin his second presidential term caught between China's desire to exert greater influence over his democratic island and Taiwanese determination to maintain their de facto independence. Ma is to be sworn in again Sunday. Since taking office in...
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ATLANTA — On the night George Zimmerman fatally shot unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida, a witness said he saw some of the scuffle — and described a black man in a dark hoodie on top of a white or Latino man, punching him repeatedly, "mixed martial arts style." Then there...
photo: AP / Orlando Sentinel, Gary W. Green, Pool
Since a 2009 trip to Kabul, I have kept a sky-blue burqa in my office as a reminder of the responsibility we have to the women of Afghanistan. As world leaders gather in Chicago this weekend to discuss Afghanistan's future, women must not just be a topic on the agenda — they must be a part of...
photo: US Army / Michael J. MacLeod
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Donna Summer, the multimillion-selling singer and songwriter whose hits captured both the giddy hedonism of the 1970s disco era and the feisty female solidarity of the early 1980s, died of lung cancer Thursday at her home in Naples, Fla. She was 63. With her doe eyes, cascade of hair and sinuous...
photo: WN / Aruna Gilbert
