From Staten Island Haven, Liberians Reveal Warâs Scars
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Liberiaâs Truth and Reconciliation Commission will collect testimony on Staten Island, home to a large population of survivors of civil war.
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For veterans of Ramadi, it seems like a different place and a different war.
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Many displaced people got their first look last week at homes destroyed by renewed fighting.
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The first witness in the trial of hte former Liberian President talks, not about atrocities, but about "blood diamonds"
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PETERSBURG, Va. -- As the World Trade Center rubble smoldered, Sharon Samuel felt determined to do something for her adopted country; she decided to enlist in the Army.
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Recovering in a New York nursing home from surgery to remove a brain tumor, former Liberian interim President David Kpormakpor is relieved to learn that he will not be deported. At least not this year.
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Chuquri has seen a century&#39;s worth of battles. British colonists, Soviet soldiers and the black-turbanned Taliban have variously marched, bombed or shot their way through the mud-walled, hilltop hamlet.
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HUAMBO, Angola -- Manuel Faustino Gomes, 15, lost both his parents during Angola's long civil war and spent years as a child of the streets, scrambling to survive in this battered city.
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MONROVIA, Liberia  - Violence between Muslims and Christians engulfed Liberia's war-battered capital Friday, with machete-wielding crowds rampaging through the streets and UN peacekeepers firing warning shots and tear gas to restore order amid burned mosques and churches.
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THE HAGUE, June 4 -- The trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor, the highest-ranking African leader to face an international war crimes court, began Monday with the defendant refusing to leave his cell and prosecutors alleging that his fighters hacked off civilians' hands and legs, forced...
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Illegal immigrant ice cream vendors might be spreading leprosy in Manassas. Prince William County has been infiltrated by "unassimilated marxist radicals." Manassas Park police covered up the predations of five Hispanic men who gang-raped a woman in the street in June.
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For the small community of Houma, La. to lose so many in one day makes the pain of war more immediate.
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The United Nations refugee agency and Nigerian officials appealed to recalcitrant Liberian refugees to go back home, warning that time and hospitality were fast running out for them.
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NEW HYDE PARK, N.Y., Feb. 26 -- In a light-filled lobby of a hospital for sick children, an American mother talked on Monday with an Iraqi father about how their lives had been altered and entwined by a war thousands of miles away.
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Three years on, experts and participants are looking back to try and glean the war's lessons.
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THE HAGUE, Jan. 7 -- The war crimes trial of Charles Taylor, Liberia's former president, heard its first testimony Monday and saw video of victims telling of being sexually assaulted or dismembered by rebels who plundered West African diamond fields.
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On the military plane that crossed the ocean at night, the wounded lay in stretchers stacked three high. The drone of engines was broken by the occasional sound of moaning. Sedated and sleeping, Pfc. Joshua Calloway was at the top of one stack last September. Unlike the others around him, Callowa...