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  • WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: Will Obama kick the SOCCKET?

    DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AP) -- A spirited game of soccer can energize a crowd. Turns out it can also energize a light socket.(   07/01/2013 4:20 PM )

  • Ex-Chadian ruler could face war crimes charges

    DAKAR, Senegal (AP) -- Preliminary evidence collected against former Chad President Hissene Habre could lead to charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity and torture, according to the prosecutor at a special court established more than 20 years after Habre fell from power.(   07/01/2013 4:20 PM )

  • Obama courts Africa's business on trip's final leg

    DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Monday courted African business leaders and announced new trade initiatives to open up East Africa's markets to American businesses, as he sought to counter the rise of Chinese economic influence in the growing continent.(   07/01/2013 3:02 PM )

  • Obama: 'We are heartbroken' over AZ firefighters

    DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AP) -- President Barack Obama says the deaths of 19 firefighters who died battling an Arizona wildfire are a heartbreaking reminder that emergency personnel put their lives on the line every day while rushing toward danger.(   07/01/2013 2:43 PM )

  • Congo: Experts say armed groups prefer gold

    GOMA, Congo (AP) -- United Nations experts say gold has become the commodity of choice for armed groups in volatile eastern Congo, partly because traders in the region buy it without asking questions.(   07/01/2013 1:42 PM )

  • Ailing Mandela still able to unite South Africans

    PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) -- The spelling and grammar need work, but the message has its own eloquence.(   07/01/2013 1:42 PM )

  • Ethiopian Air sees record profit despite 787 snafu

    ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) -- The chief executive of Ethiopian Airlines says that his company has pocketed a record profit despite the temporary grounding of its Boeing 787 Dreamliner planes.(   07/01/2013 1:38 PM )

  • Obama: Potential for violence in Egypt remains

    DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AP) -- President Barack Obama says protests in Egypt so far haven't included the level of violence many had feared. But he says the potential for such violence remains.(   07/01/2013 1:31 PM )

  • Obama: US will give allies info on spying claims

    DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AP) -- Facing a European uproar over more U.S. eavesdropping claims, President Barack Obama argued Monday that it's no surprise that governments spy on each other but said the United States will provide allies with information about new reports that the National Security Agency bugged European Union offices in Washington, New York and Brussels.(   07/01/2013 1:16 PM )

  • Obama, Bush to meet Tuesday in Tanzania

    DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AP) -- President Barack Obama says his appearance Tuesday in Africa with former President George W. Bush will give him a chance to thank Bush for one of the "crowning achievements" of the Republican's administration, a U.S.-funded program to stop the spread of HIV and AIDS on the continent.(   07/01/2013 12:13 PM )

  • Zimbabwe president's media lash out at Obama

    HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- The Zimbabwe president's party says U.S. President Barack Obama's calls for more democratic reforms ahead of elections in this southern African nation are "hypocritical."(   07/01/2013 11:48 AM )

  • UN takes over from African troops in Mali

    BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- An African force was formally transformed into a United Nations peacekeeping mission at a ceremony in Mali's capital on Monday, six months after French and African troops launched a military intervention to take back the country's north from al-Qaida-linked rebels.(   07/01/2013 11:08 AM )

  • AP NewsAlert

    DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AP) -- CORRECTS: Obama says US has held 'high level' discussions with Russia on Snowden extradition . (Corrects APNewsAlert )(   07/01/2013 10:59 AM )

  • Obama says potential for violence remains in Egypt, calls for restraint on all sides

    DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AP) -- Obama says potential for violence remains in Egypt, calls for restraint on all sides.(   07/01/2013 10:35 AM )

  • Oil thefts threaten Nigeria's economy, environment

    DIEBU, Nigeria (AP) -- The first drops of crude float in the languid muddy currents of Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta, then slowly grow into the splatter of a massive crime scene.(   07/01/2013 10:18 AM )