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Nigeria Fashion Week Highlights African Designers - Last week, styles from African fashion designers turned heads at the ARISE Magazine Fashion Week in Lagos, Nigeria. The weeklong celebration, now in its second year, highlighted the work of 77 mostly African or Africa-influenced designers.(Photo: AP Photos/Sunday Alamba)

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Afghanistan Massacre Suspect Returns Home - Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, the troubled U.S. soldier whose violent rampage killed 16 people in an Afghanistan village just weeks earlier, was flown to the military's highest-security prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas Friday, where investigators will delve into his military evaluations, mental and physical health records as they prepare to bring charges against him. Military officials said Bales was previously treated for a mild traumatic brain injury and possibly developed post-traumatic stress disorder. Afghanistan was his fourth deployment abroad after three tours in Iraq.  (Photo: REUTERS/Ahmad Nadeem)

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George Clooney Launches Sudan Aid Crusade - Actor and director George Clooney was arrested outside the Sudanese embassy after testifying before Congress about the decades-long conflict raging along the border between Sudan and South Sudan."What you see is a constant drip of fear," Clooney told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday after returning from a trip to South Sudan’s Nuba Mountains. "We found children filled with shrapnel, including a 9-year-old boy who had both of his hands blown off."(Photo: Kris Connor/Getty Images)

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Some Ugandans Aren't Feeling Kony 2012 - The Kony 2012 video that took the Internet by storm with its impassioned appeal to support the ongoing hunt of rebel leader Joseph Kony ruffled feathers in the northern Ugandan town of Lira.Some viewers walked out in the middle of a public screening of the documentary and others threw stones at the screen in protest of what some called a celebration of their suffering.Uganda's prime minister Amama Mbabazi also railed against the video stating, "The Kony 2012 campaign fails to make one crucial point clear. Joseph Kony is not in Uganda." He added that Uganda was on Kony's trail and did not "need a slick video on YouTube... to take notice."Days later, Jason Russell, director of the video, was taken into custody and hospitalized after he stripped naked and ran through the busy streets of San Die...

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Ugandan Military Force to Head New Kony Manhunt - Members of Uganda’s military will head a new four-nation military force tasked with capturing infamous warlord Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army.Forces from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic and South Sudan are slated to join the effort. Kiyonga said the move was not motivated by the Kony 2012 campaign.(Photo: REUTERS/Adam Pletts /Landov)

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Congo Warlord Convicted of Using Child Soldiers - Thomas Lubanga, a former rebel leader from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was convicted for exploiting child soldiers in a landmark verdict for the International Criminal Court (ICC).Lubanga is the first person to be tried by the ICC and, given that his alleged crimes are eerily similar to those pinned on infamous LRA leader Joseph Kony, many say the outcome of his trial will give hope to those seeking to bring Kony to justice.(Photo: REUTERS/Michael Kooren)

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Africans in Israel Join Forces for Improvement - Israel's array of culturally distinct African communities are banding together now that they face similar discrimination over their skin color. Last week, dozens of members from various African communities attended the Middle East African Diaspora Commission to organize around these concerns.(Photo: AP Photo/Diaa Hadid)

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Mitt Romney Wins Puerto Rico Primary - GOP presidential candidate front-runner Mitt Romney claimed a sweeping victory in Puerto Rico’s presidential primary, taking 83.4 percent of the vote. Rival Rick Santorum won less than 8 percent.(Photo: Christopher Gregory/Getty Images)

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Boko Haram Talks Collapse - Despite hopes for peace and reconciliation, talks between the Nigerian government and militant Islamist group Boko Haram broke down last week. Boko Haram’s intermediary, the Supreme Council for Shariah, accused the Nigerian government of insincerity on the peace initiative.(Photo: REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde)

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Afghan President Karzai Wants U.S. Troops Out of Villages - Thursday, Afghanistan’s president called for the U.S. and other foreign forces in Afghanistan to leave villages in the country and move to larger bases. The announcement came as relations between the U.S. and Afghanistan began to quickly decline in the wake of a killing spree carried out by a U.S. soldier.(Photo: REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte)

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Jewish School Shooting Stuns France - A gunman opened fire outside of a Jewish school in southern France Monday, leaving a teacher, his two children and one other student dead. The incident marks the third time in the past 10 days that a gunman on a motorcycle has shot at members of ethnic minorities in the southwest of France.(Photo: REUTERS/Pascal Parrot)

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Jamaica’s Security Chief Calls Crime the Nation’s 9/11 - Jamaican National Security Minister, Peter Bunting, spoke out about the country’s out of control crime rates by likening the crisis to the U.S.’s Sept. 11 terrorist attack."We have been so inoculated to our high levels of crime that we don't even recognize how bad it is," Bunting said. "If you just look at the numbers murdered each week in Jamaica and compare the size of our population to the United States, what it equates to is us having a 9/11 type loss every week."(Photo: AP/File)