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Gambia's Fatou Bensouda Takes Helm as ICC Prosecutor - Fatou Bensouda, a former justice minister from the West African nation of Gambia, was sworn in Friday as chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague.     (Photo: REUTERS/Bas Czerwinski/Pool)

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Kenya Wants Help From the U.S and E.U. to Stop Al-Shabab - Kenya, a staunch adversary of Somali militants al-Shabab, reached out to the two largest Western powers last week asking for money and weapons to help put down the militants.(Photo: AP Photo/Sayyid Azim)

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Transgender Pageant Winner Killed in South Africa - Thapelo Makutle, 23, was murdered and mutilated last week in what rights groups are calling a hate crime. Makutle recently won the Miss Gay Kuruman pageant. He was found murdered in his apartment, his genitals cut off and put in his mouth. Police are investigating the crime as a murder. (Photo: Courtesy Facebook)

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Black British Actress Gets Breakthrough Lead Role - Britain is abuzz over the new movie Fast Girls, which features a Black female lead. It is a rarity for British film."It's a huge thing for me to have such a strong female cast," lead actress Lenora Crichlow told the BBC. "For me as a black British woman it's so important."(Photo: Stuart Wilson/Getty Images)

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U.K. Accused of Unfairly Rejecting African Visas - An independent probe found that U.K. border agents are "acting unfairly" when processing visas from African countries. According to U.K. Border Agency Chief Inspector John Vine, many visas were incorrectly rejected after employees "disregarded or misinterpreted" evidence. (Photo: EPA/Saul Ramirez/Landov)

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Ethiopia Displaces Residents for Sugar Plantations - Human Rights Watch and other organizations have accused the Ethiopian government of forcibly displacing tens of thousands of people to make way for state-run sugar plantations. (Photo: Hudson Apunyo/Landov)

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Nigerian Church Bombings Kill 50 - Boko Haram stepped forward to claim responsibility for weekend bombings of three churches in Nigeria that left nearly 50 people dead. The group said the attacks were retaliation on Christians for destroying mosques and turning others into "beer parlour and prostitution joints."(Photo: REUTERS/Stringer)

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Headless in Paris? - Parisian police are still questioning a local couple about two headless corpses and a footless leg found in a park on the eastern edge of Paris. The two surrendered to police Saturday and confessed to dismembering the bodies and burying them in a panic after a heated argument.     (Photo: KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/AFP/Getty Images)

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South Africa in Countdown to Mandela Day - Nelson Mandela’s office has released a video of South Africans singing “Happy Birthday” in an effort to motivate people around the world to salute the anti-apartheid icon ahead of his 94th birthday next month.(Photo: REUTERS/Alexander Joe/Pool)

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Hope Dwindles for Haiti Shipwreck Search  - An overcrowded boat carrying Haitian migrants capsized in rough seas last week, killing at least 11 and leaving nearly 12 missing. Now, as the search for survivors enters its second week, authorities say the likelihood of finding the missing alive has reduced considerably. (Photo: Miami Herald/MCT/Landov)

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U.S. Expanding Spy Operations in Africa - The U.S. military is expanding its secret intelligence operations across Africa and utilizing private contractors to spy on supposed terrorist hideouts, reports say. (Photo: AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

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G-20 Meets in Mexico - Leaders of 19 nations and the European Union, known as the Group of 20 (G-20), are gathering in Los Cabos, Mexico, for a two-day summit that aims to focus on shoring up support for the neediest countries during this global economic crisis.(Photo: REUTERS/Aleksey Nikolskyi/RIA Novosti/Pool)