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ANC Busts Bomb Plot - South African police say they arrested four right-wing extremists who were accused of planning to bomb the national conference of the governing African National Congress. (Photo: REUTERS/Mike Hutchings)

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ANC Re-elects Zuma as Party Chief - South African President Jacob Zuma clinched a landslide victory in the African National Congress' leadership election, despite widespread criticism of his presidency.  (Photo: MIKE HUTCHINGS /LANDOV/REUTERS)

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Kidnappers Free Nigeria's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala's Mother - The 82-year-old mother of Nigeria's Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was released by kidnappers last week after spending five days in captivity. Kidnappers dropped Okonjo-Iweala’s mother off near the side of a highway after police intensified the search for her. (Photo: REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko)

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U.K. Census: Africans Surpass Caribbean Population - New census figures from the United Kingdom show that for the first time the number of Blacks from Africa have surged past those of Caribbean origin. (Photo: REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lup)

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Sean Penn Says Port-au-Prince Is Like Detroit - Three years following a devastating earthquake, actor and activist Sean Penn commented on conditions in Haiti, stating that its capital, Port-au-Prince, is just like Detroit. "It's not more dangerous, it's not less dangerous,” he said. (Photo: Lee Celano/Getty Images)

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Mandela Undergoes Gallstone Surgery, Remains in Hospital - Former South African president Nelson Mandela’s hospital stay ran into its 10th day Monday after undergoing a gallstone removal operation and receiving treatment for a lung infection last week.   (Photo: AP Photo/Siphiwe Sibeko, Pool, File)

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Cameroon Upholds 3-Year Term for Gay Text - An appeals court in Cameroon upheld a three-year sentence given to a Jean-Claude Roger Mbede, who was found guilty of homosexual conduct via text message. The text, sent to another man, read: "I'm very much in love with you." (Photo: Courtesy of AmnestyUSA)

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Hillary Clinton Faints, Suffers Concussion - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sustained a concussion after becoming severely dehydrated, the State Department announced. The illness comes just before Clinton is scheduled to testify before a pair of congressional panels looking into the Sept. 11 attack in Benghazi, Libya. (Photo: AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

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African Papers Fooled by Mike Tyson Spoof - Several online African newspapers published a spoof story about former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson having a sex change. The story appeared on satirical U.K. website NewsBiscuit. (Photo: Landov)

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Refugee Numbers Rise in DRC - Humanitarian workers warn that the number of refugees taking shelter from fighting is rising in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) estimates that there are more than 800,000 displaced people in North Kivu. (Photo: REUTERS/James Akena)

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Sabatoge Found in Bangladesh Fire - A factory fire in Bangladesh that killed more than 100 workers who were trapped inside was determined to be “an act of sabotage.”  (Photo: AP Photo/Hasan Raza, File)

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Italy’s Rightwing Bloggers Launch New Site - A group of right-wing bloggers and activists from Italy started an anti-immigrant news website called Tutti i crimini degli immigrati (“All the immigrants’ crimes”) that aggregates news about the involvement of foreign-born Italians citizens in crimes. (Photo: Courtesy of tuttiicriminidegliimmigrati.com)

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Syrian Vice President Says Both Sides Will Lose - As rebel fighters close in on President Bashar al-Assad’s stronghold of Damascus, Syrian Vice President Farouq al-Sharaa spoke out saying that the war would not be won by Assad’s forces or rebels seeking to overthrow him. (Photo: AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)