Liberians win extended stay in US
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President Bush on Wednesday extended by 18 months the stays of thousands of Liberians living in the United States under temporary protected status.
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EU members win the right to impose sanctions on the US in retaliation for an anti-dumping law.
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The United States said Tuesday the vote by Venezuela's people to allow President Hugo Chavez to complete his term marks an end to the Latin American nation's political crisis.
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MONROVIA, Liberia - Armed UN troops arrested dozens of men Sunday in a sometimes bloody conclusion to a countrywide disarmament program, days after a fresh burst of violent in the war-battered West African nation.
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LIMA, Peru  - American Lori Berenson faces 11 more  years behind bars in Peru after the Americas' top human rights  court on Thursday upheld her 20-year sentence for collaborating  with Marxist rebels.
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TRIPOLI, September 21 (IslamOnline.net &amp; News Agencies) - Libya has welcomed Washington&#39;s lifting of most of the economic sanctions slapped on Tripoli because of US charges of sponsoring terrorism, saying it was in the interest of both countries.
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Guinea-Bissau&#39;s armed forces and seized key buildings in the capital of the former Portuguese colony. Officials said the unit involved had spent nine months in Liberia and had not been paid for five.
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Six medics sentenced to life in prison in Libya for allegedly infecting children with HIV came home to Bulgaria on Tuesday and were greeted with tears and hugs &#151; and a presidential pardon that allowed them to walk free after 8 1/2 years behind bars.
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MONROVIA, Liberia -- Thousands of cheering Liberians lined the streets of the capital yesterday to greet President Hu Jintao of China, who pledged more than $35 million to aid recovery after one of Africa's most ruinous civil wars.
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SOFIA, Bulgaria -- President Bush said yesterday that it was a high priority for the United States to win the release of five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya for infecting children with HIV.
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Skilled workers and professionals are returning to Liberia, reversing the brain drain common in Africa.
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Ciata Victor gave up a high-paying tech job, a spacious condo and a first-world life in Maryland to return home to an African capital that barely has electricity or running water. After 26 years of watching from afar as her native Liberia was ravaged by coups and war, Victor says she's home to stay. And she's started a business &#151; running a seven-computer Internet cafe using a generator and a borrowed satellite hookup.
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Family and friends of Charles Taylor  held a church service on Sunday in support of the former  Liberian president, on the eve of his trial in The Hague on 11  counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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The British government said Tuesday that it was delighted that the United States has lifted the remaining sanctions on Libya. &quot;We are delighted that, in delivering on the historic commitment made on Dec.
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Six foreign medics jailed for life in Libya for infecting children with the AIDS virus flew to Bulgaria on Monday after being released by Tripoli under a deal brokered with the European Union.
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Liberia&#39;s interim leader Gyude Bryant has said a curfew in the capital, Monrovia, will remain in force until 0700 on Sunday morning (0700 GMT).
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American convoys under the protection of Blackwater USA resumed on Friday, four days after the U.S. Embassy suspended all land travel by its diplomats and other civilian officials in response to the alleged killing of civilians by the security firm.