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Ivory Coast battles rage as incumbent Gbagbo digs in
ABIDJAN (AFP) – Ivory Coast’s Laurent Gbagbo desperately clung to power on Friday as explosions and gunfire rocked Abidjan as forces loyal to leader-in-waiting Alassane Ouattara closed in on his last bastion. While the 65-year-old strongman remained silent, his whereabouts unknown, a close aide said he has no intention of…
U.S. Fed loaned Libya-backed bank billions
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve lent a Libyan state-backed bank billions of dollars during the financial crisis, documents made public on Thursday have revealed. The Arab Bank Corporation, which is today 59.3 percent owned by the Libyan government, borrowed in slices as big as $1.175 billion from the US central…
African Americans worse off in 2011: study
WASHINGTON (AFP) – African Americans are worse off and have less access to health care than white Americans this year compared to 2010, an annual report released Thursday says. In the 35th annual “State of Black America” report, the National Urban League (NUL) said African Americans have slid down on…
Website technology scans people’s emotions
SAN FRANCISCO — Computers may soon understand people better than their spouses do, courtesy of innovations from startup Affectiva that expand on groundbreaking sensing research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Affectiva co-founder and MIT professor Rosalind Picard showed off the fledgling firm’s feelings-sensing applications at a Web 2.0…
Rebels battle for control of Libyan oil town
AJDABIYA, Libya (AFP) – Libyan rebels were on Friday battling Moamer Kadhafi’s forces around the oil town of Brega, as the West backed off from arming the rag-tag fighters and pushed for a political solution instead. An AFP correspondent citing rebel commanders said fighting had erupted around Brega, about 800…
Netherlands marks a decade of gay marriage
AMSTERDAM (AFP) – The Netherlands celebrated the 10th anniversary of the world’s first legally binding gay marriage with another set of nuptials Friday, mixing the formal with the casual. “I declare you, in my position as mayor of Amsterdam, joined by the rights of marriage,” Eberhart van der Laan told…
African-Americans worse off in 2011: study
WASHINGTON – African-Americans are worse off and have less access to health care than white Americans this year compared to 2010, an annual report released Thursday said. In the 35th annual “State of Black America” report, the National Urban League (NUL) said blacks have slid down on an “equality index”…
Rep. Boehner: No budget deal just yet
WASHINGTON – US House Speaker John Boehner said Thursday there was no budget deal yet to keep the government operating, and insisted his fellow Republicans would fight for huge spending cuts during negotiations with Democrats. “There’s no agreement on numbers, and nothing will be agreed to until everything is agreed…
Bat deaths could cost US economy billions: study
WASHINGTON – Call them creepy little creatures if you like, but insect-munching bats are so valuable to US agriculture that their deaths could cost the economy billions of dollars per year, experts said Thursday. A fungal disease known as white nose syndrome, combined with the rise in wind turbines which…
After 30 years, war on AIDS at ‘moment of truth’
NAIROBI – With the war on AIDS nearing its 30th anniversary, the UN on Thursday declared “a moment of truth” had come for new strategies to address the campaign’s failures and brake costs that were now unsustainable. “We have a unique opportunity to take stock of the progress and to…
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