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Soweto Gets Dolled Up for Inaugural Fashion Week - Last week, one of South Africa’s most famous but most impoverished townships got a chance to show off its creativity and rich history in Soweto's first fashion week."It's a great opportunity. It's a long time coming. There's a lot of talent that's going on in the townships," said 29-year-old designer Tebogo Lehlabi, according to the Associated Press.(Photo: AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

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Haiti Hopes Gold Find Means Boom Times Ahead - A significant discovery of gold and other precious metals in Haiti's Northeastern mountain range has given residents hope that once mining gets under way in about five years, the revenues will offer the resources needed to transform a country beset by poverty and ravaged by earthquakes and disease into an emerging island economy. (Photo: AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

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Backlash Against African Migrants in Israel Heightens - Tensions between the swelling numbers of African migrants and Israeli citizens have heightened over the last week with politicians and protesters alike calling for their removal. Although the African migrants make up less than one percent of the population, some Israelis worry that their national identity is being threatened."It's the crumbling of the Zionist dream," Interior Minister Eli Yishai warned on Thursday, the Associated Press reported.(Photo: AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

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Earthquake Shakes Italy - A 5.8-magnitude earthquake rocked northern Italy on Tuesday, bringing down buildings and leaving at least 15 people dead.(Photo: Roberto Serra/Iguana Press/Getty Images)

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Sudan Will Pull Troops From Oil-Rich Region - Sudan vowed to withdraw its army Tuesday from the hotly disputed border region it shares with South Sudan that contains rich oil fields. The announcement came ahead of peace talks scheduled to be held in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa and moderated by former South African President Thabo Mbeki.(Photo: REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah)

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Mandela Returning to Home Village - South African President Jacob Zuma announced that former President Nelson Mandela is leaving Johannesburg to take up permanent residence in his eastern home village of Qunu.Zuma said that Mandela "is in good health and we constantly assure him of the love, support and good wishes of millions of South Africans and people around the world."   (Photo: REUTERS/Alexander Joe/Pool)

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South Africa’s Explicit Zuma Painting Row Rolls On - A provocative portrait featuring South Africa's President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed has caused a flurry of outrage among supporters who call the satirical piece offensive. The original painting was removed last week from the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg after it was defaced, but a local newspaper ran a photo of the portrait uncensored and hundreds took to the streets of Johannesburg in protest.(Photo: City Press/Gallo Images/Getty Images)

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BP Oil to Resume Operations in Libya - International oil giant BP says it is one step closer to resuming operations in Libya after contract suspension was lifted. The suspension was enacted during the violence and unrest that led to the toppling of former leader Moammar Gadhafi.(Photo: ISMAIL ZITOUNY/LANDOV)

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Sean Penn Drops F-bombs for Haiti - At a glitzy fundraiser for Haiti in France during this year's Cannes Film Festival, actor and Haitian ambassador-at-large Sean Penn went on an expletive-laced rant that instead of offending his audience alotted nearly $2 million to support Haitian earthquake recovery efforts."F--k 'em if people say you're just writing a check, but you're making a change," he told the crowd. He also said Haiti should be helped because it is just an hour away from "the richest f---ing country in the world."(Photo: Andreas Rentz/Getty Images)

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Nations Expel Syrian Ambassadors Following Massacre - Following a harrowing U.N. report tallying the deaths of 49 children and 34 women in the Syrian city of Houla at the hand of pro-government forces last week, the United States and several European Union nations and Gulf Arab states expelled Syria’s ambassadors stationed in their countries in protest.(Photo: EPA/ANDY RAIN/LANDOV)

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Danish-Somali Brothers Arrested in Terror Plot - Two Danish brothers of Somali origin, with alleged connections to Somali militant group al-Shabab, were arrested in Denmark on suspicion of plotting a terror attack.Danish police said the arrests thwarted plans to commit "a concrete act of terror.""The arrested are suspected of having been in the process of preparing an act of terror, among other things through conversations about methods, targets and the use of weapon types," a police statement said.(Photo: EPA/ANDY RAIN/LANDOV)

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Investor Eyes Soccer Stadium for Haiti - Former Haiti soccer star Robert "Boby" Duval is putting together an ambitious plan to build a $5 million soccer stadium in Haiti’s impoverished Cite Soleil. The proposed stadium will seat 12,000 and will be called the Phoenix Stadium because Duval hopes it will rise from poverty into something much better"Cite Soleil was destroyed way before the earthquake," said Duval, according to the Associated Press. "This stadium is going to clean up Cite Soleil. ... and I'm betting on it."(Photo: SWOAN PARKER/LANDOV)