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US resumes arms sales to Bahrain. Activists feel abandonedIn major setbacks for Bahrain's opposition, the US has decided to resume arms sales to the kingdom and Gulf Arab leaders are meeting to discuss greater regional integration.
- Difference MakerA little book has a big impact on how to run a charity
Mario Morino wrote a little book that's had a big effect – urging nonprofit groups to prove that they're really doing what they say they're doing.
Is Bogota's gun ban responsible for a drop in homicides?If a new gun ban in Colombia's capital is linked to a drop in the murder rate, it could potentially serve as a model for the rest of Latin America, writes guest blogger Geoffrey Ramsey.
Congo Siasa: Congolese troops showing progress against mutinyGuest blogger Jason Stearns writes that the Congolese army is showing new confidence as it confronts a mutiny by rebel Congolese army officers in eastern Congo.
Kony hunt: Ugandan army captures senior LRA commanderThe capture of Caesar Acellam, the fourth highest commander under the LRA's Joseph Kony, is a huge boost in the effort to end a 20-year rebellion that has killed thousands.
UN's nuclear agency, Iran begin critical meeting ahead of Baghdad talksToday's meeting between the International Atomic Energy Agency and Iranian officials is meant to lay the groundwork for next week's critical meeting in Baghdad between Iran and the P5 + 1.
Massacre in Mexico deepens country's violent imageForty-nine bodies were dumped on a highway in northern Mexico in the latest example of drug-related violence that is scaring off investors and changing citizens' behavior at home.
- Second Afghan peace broker assassinated
Gunmen killed a senior member of Afghanistan's High Peace Council Sunday morning, in yet another signal that some elements within the insurgency are against talks.
Brazil, Venezuela, and Mexico: three ways to nationalize oilArgentina's renationalization of its biggest oil company, YPF, recently caused an outcry. But the cases of oil nationalization in Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela show that outcomes can vary widely.
FocusArgentina's renationalization of YPF: A push to manage oil on its own termsMany have criticized Argentina's move to renationalize its oil as a populist bid likely to isolate it from the global economy. But the takeover is in line with changing power dynamics in the region.
Greece has only one chance left to avoid another electionSocialist party leader Evangelos Venizelos today became the third politician this week to fail at forming a coalition government. If the president does too, Greece will head back to the polls.
Has Norway given Breivik exactly what he wanted?Norway's decision to try Anders Behring Breivik, the confessed killer behind the July 2011 terror attacks, is controversial because it gives him a very public platform from which to share his views.
Algeria's ruling party wins polls, but turnout sends mixed messageAlgerians voted in parliamentary elections, returning the ruling party to power. But many Algerians are frustrated over high unemployment and what they see as rigid rule by an aging elite.
Rebekah Brooks discusses links to British PM Cameron in phone hacking inquiryRebekah Brooks, former CEO of Rupert Murdoch's News International, talked about her relationship with British Prime Minister David Cameron and former prime minister Tony Blair in testimony Friday before the Leveson inquiry.
- Surfer catches 'biggest wave ever' off Portugal
The Guinness World Records recognizes Hawaii pro surfer for the biggest wave ever ridden. Garrett McNamara surfed a 78-foot wave off the coast of Portugal.
Italian museum sets its art on fire to protest lack of government fundingContending that it would be 'destroyed anyway' because there is no money for preservation work, the Casoria Contemporary Art Museum is burning a piece of its contemporary art collection every day.
Solar-powered phones recharge Kenya's conversationsAn inexpensive solar cell phone made of recycled materials opens new opportunities for people in rural Kenya.
North Korean women sold into 'slavery' in ChinaLike the thousands of women who fled North Korea before her, Kim Eun-sun made it into China and paid a woman to help her, only to discover she'd traded one form of captivity for another.
Man aims shoe at Breivik, marking first outburst in surprisingly calm trialThe brother of one of Anders Behring Breivik's victims launched a shoe at the confessed killer on a day that was already tense because of a controversial legal proposal.
- Nigeria soldiers arrest Boko Haram commander
The arrest of the Islamist sect's operational commander Suleiman Mohammed, and discovery of arms cache, is welcome news for Nigeria, which has been battling Boko Haram for three years.
