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Malawi Suspends Anti-Gay Laws - Malawi announced its decision to suspended laws against same-sex relationships pending a decision on whether to repeal the legislation completely. Police have been ordered not to arrest or prosecute homosexuals until the issue is settled in parliament. (Photo: REUTERS/Eldson Chagara)

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Obama’s Family Village Gears Up for Election - President Obama’s relatives in Kogelo, Kenya, the birthplace of Barack Obama's father, Barack Obama Sr., are confident about his reelection."I don’t know the other person who is contesting," said Pastor Joseph Omundi of the Christian Life church in Kogelo, "but we know Barack Obama is the son of this land."   (Photo: AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

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ICC Says Ivory Coast's Gbagbo Fit for Trial - The International Criminal Court in The Hague ruled that former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo is fit to stand trial. The 67-year-old will face charges of crimes against humanity, including murder and rape, as a result of violence that took place in the wake of Ivory Coast's disputed 2012 presidential elections. (Photo: EPA/NIC BOTHMA /LANDOV)

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Nigerian Officials Worry Over Hurricane Sandy Ripple Effect - Officials in Nigeria worry that ripple effects from Hurricane Sandy could send a strong coastal surge into the country’s coast, threatening residents of its largest, most populous city, Lagos."Normally, when such happens and the magnitude of it hits that part of the world, we always have a ripple effect in Lagos and around the West Coast of Africa,” Prince Segun Oniru, Lagos State commissioner, told Nigerian newspaper Leadership. (Photo: REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye)

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U.K. Woman Charged After Racist Train Rant - British police have charged a white woman with committing a racially aggravated offense after she launched a racist tirade on a London train in October.Jacqueline Williams. 47, was caught on video shouting offensive slurs and saying, “Go home, go home where you belong ... You might have been born here, but I bet your grandparents and your great great grandparents weren’t.” (Photo: BBC News)

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Kenya Church Attack Kills Policeman, Injures 11 - A church in a police compound in Eastern Kenya was hit by a grenade attack that left one officer dead and injured at least 11 others. The targeted church is near the country’s border with Somalia.(Photo: AP Photo/Daud Yusuf)

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Nigeria Police Arrest 100 in Biafra Protests - Nigerian police arrested at least 100 people and charged them with treason in Southeastern Nigeria following a Biafran independence march.  (Photo: REUTERS/Tobin Jones/Handout)

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Somalia Gets First Female Foreign Minister - Fauzia Yusuf Haji Adan will join Somalia’s cabinet as the country’s first female foreign minister.  (Photo: Courtesy Hiiraan Online)

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G-20 Officials Meet in Mexico - Finance ministers and central bank governors from the world's leading economies met in Mexico for two days to discuss the global impact of Europe's debt crisis and the stalemate over a fiscal plan for the U.S.(Photo: CNBC.com)

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Syrian Capital Rocked by Fighting - Fighting raged in the Syrian capital of Damascus Monday as Palestinian supporters and opponents of Syria's regime clashed.(Photo: AP Photo/SANA)

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Zuma Wants to Solve Problems the “African Way” - South African President Jacob Zuma told a group of traditional leaders that he wants to see traditional African justice institutions that can “solve African problems the African way, not the white man's way.”(Photo: REUTERS/B Mathur)

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South Sudan Expels U.N. Human Rights Envoy - South Sudan has expelled a U.N. official on the grounds that she was producing "unjustified" reports."It's the first person on human rights to be [declared] persona non grata," government spokesman Barnaba Marial Benjamin said on Sunday.(Photo: REUTERS/Adriane Ohanesian)