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PHOTOS: Abandon All Hope: Visiting 10 Entrances To Hell

Andrew Burmon | Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Video, The Inferno, Yellowstone, Guinea, Ireland, Italy, Travel, Japan, Belize, Turkmenistan, Halloween Travel, Holiday Travel, Gotta See This, Hell, Gates of Hell, Travel News

Grandma may be breathless over her trip to the Holy Land and your cousin may want to go snowboarding at Heavenly, but most people receive more persona...

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DSK Lawyers Dispute Report Of Hotel Maid's Medical Examination

AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: William W. Taylor, Manhattan, Guinea, Sofitel, France, International Monetary Fund, New York, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Video, Benjamin Brafman, Dsk, Sofitel Hotel, Kenneth Thompson, Imf, L'Express, Nafissatou Diallo, World News

JENNIFER PELTZ / AP NEW YORK -- Lawyers for former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn fought back Tuesday after a media repo...

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Lawyer For Hotel Maid In Strauss-Kahn Case Says Her Remarks Were Wrongfully Portrayed

AP | COLLEEN LONG and JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 09.26.2011

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NEW YORK — The hotel maid accusing Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sex assault has been wrongfully portrayed as a money-grubbing opportunist in accoun...

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Guinean President Survives Assasination Attempt

AP | BOUBACAR DIALLO and RUKMINI CALLIMACHI | Posted 09.18.2011

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CONAKRY, Guinea — Guinea's president narrowly survived an assassination attempt Tuesday after gunmen surrounded his home overnight and pounded h...

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Families, Planning, And Faith

Katherine Marshall | Posted 09.07.2011

Read More: Catholic Church, MDG Goal 5a, Georgetown University Institute for Reproductive Health, Contraception, Family Planning, Christian Connections for International Health, Guinea, Women's Rights, Religion News

Faced with the dual realities of avoidable deaths and our capacity to do something about it, you would expect the religious community before all others to throw their passions, skills, and moral authority behind campaigns to save women's lives.

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Would You Trust Management Consultants With the World's Rainforests? Our Governments Have -- Disastrously

Johann Hari | Posted 09.06.2011

Read More: Mckinsey, Guinea, Rainforest, David Cameron, Amazon Rainforest, Congo, Rainforest Destruction, Deforestation, Greenpeace, Management Consulting, Green News

Management consultants have now been, in effect, tasked with setting the future of the world's rainforests -- and they are facing accusations that they are using our money to draw up plans that will result in their more rapid destruction.

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Strauss-Kahn Fallout: NY DA Takes Five Steps Backwards For Rape Accusers

Shelley Ross | Posted 09.05.2011

Read More: Lisa Friel, Kenneth P. Thompson, Asylum Application, Sexual Assault Charges, Dominque Strauss-Kahn, False Statements, Guinea, Case Implosion, Sex Crimes Unit, Jr., Sexual Assault, Cyrus Vance, Crime News

Some people have all the luck and Dominique Strauss-Kahn is one of them. He's had good political fortune. He married a billionairess. Now, it turns o...

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DSK Scandal: New York Times On The Hotel Maid Accuser

New York Times | MIKE McGOVERN | Posted 09.05.2011

Read More: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Dominique Strauss-Kahn Hotel Maid, Guinea, International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn Freed, Dominique Strauss-Kahn Sex Scandal, World News

REVELATIONS about the hotel housekeeper who accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault suggest that she embellished claims of abuse to receive a...

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Guinea State Of Emergency

AP | RUKMINI CALLIMACHI | Posted 05.25.2011

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CONAKRY, Guinea — Guinea's military on Wednesday declared a state of emergency, further restricting civilian movement and giving the army permis...

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WikiLeaks Cables: DEA Transformed Into Global Intelligence Organization

New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Drug Enforcement Agency, Wikileaks, Karen Tandy, Lansana Kouyate, DEA WikiLeaks, Guinea, Dea, Ricardo Martinelli, Ernest Bai Koroma, Panama, Sierra Leone, World News

The Drug Enforcement Administration has been transformed into a global intelligence organization with a reach that extends far beyond narcotics, and a...

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Is Africa Losing its Taste for Democracy?

John McCauley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Africa Democracy, Democracy, Guinea, Zimbabwe, Madagascar, Cote D'Ivoire, Africa, World News

The recent failed election in Cote d'Ivoire, which has generated competing claims to the presidency and a high risk of return to widespread violence, is the latest in a series of electoral setbacks in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Hope on Ice: Support Needed for Travel to Guinea

Pulitzer Center. | Pulitzer Center | Posted 05.25.2011

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In November Artcirq will travel to Guinea to collaborate with acrobats from the circus troup...

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Guinea: Moving On to the Second Round Election

Amos J. Hochstein | Posted 05.25.2011

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What Guinea needs now is for international donors, institutions and organizations to increase efforts to support the final stages of a democratic transition and help Guinea revive its economy.

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10 Poorest Countries In The World

Huffington Post | Nathaniel Cahners Hindman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Poverty, Ethiopia, Guinea, United Nations, Africa, Nigeria, Somalia, Global Poverty, Slidepollajax, Poorest Countries, Business News

Sub-Saharan Africa is the poorest region in the world, followed by South Asia, according to a new measure developed by Oxford University, with support...

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Raising Guinea Hens (Including the Great Guinea Surprise!)

Maria Rodale | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Eggs, Guinea, Animals, Farm, Healthy Living News

We started keeping guinea hens about three years ago because we live in the woods, and I wanted something to eat the ticks.

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Guinea: A Triumph for African Democracy

Amos J. Hochstein | Posted 05.25.2011

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From the outside looking in, African elections often look messy, violent and corrupt. But against this backdrop, what is happening today in Guinea deserves a closer look from other African nations and the international community.

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A Hopeful Election in Guinea

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rio Tinto, Guinea-Elections, Africa, Guinea, Mining, World Bank, Robert Amsterdam, Democracy, Francois Lonceny Fall, Vale, Alpha Condé, Cellou Dalein Diallo, Ecowas, Rusal, World News

At a moment in which the tide of global democracy is seemingly in reversal, it is heartening to note the enthusiasm with which many voters in Africa a...

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The ICC Review Conference, the Crime of Aggression, and International Criminal Justice

Rahim Kanani | Posted 05.25.2011

ICC Review Conference is an historic convening of the highest order for furthering the ultimate goal of ending impunity for the world's gravest crimes.

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Citizen Media: Drown Out the Noise

Ruthie Ackerman | Posted 05.25.2011

What makes (the best of) today's journalism different is that citizen journalists the world over have the opportunity to share their hyperlocal, interactive, personal portrayals of their communities.

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Today: Somalia's corruption and a lost Nabakov novel

WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 05.25.2011

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Stories compiled by Gizem Yarbil, Connie Kargbo, Channtal Fleischfresser, Christine Kiernan, Ivette Feliciano, and Mohammad al-Kassim, and edited by ...

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In Guinea, the Aftermath of a Massacre

GroundReport.com | GroundReport.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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Amid widespread international condemnation of Guinea's military regime, the United Nations announced Friday it would launch a formal investigatio...

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Abubakar "Toumba" Diakite, Guinea soldier: I Shot The President

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Camara Shot, Guinea President Shot, Abubakar "Toumba" Diakite, Guinea, Moussa Camara, World News

CONAKRY, Guinea — Guinea's former presidential guard chief said Wednesday he shot the country's military strongman earlier this month because th...

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Guinea: Attacks On Women, Vicious Rapes Harden Opposition

nytimes.com | ADAM NOSSITER | Posted 05.25.2011

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CONAKRY, Guinea Cellphone snapshots, ugly and hard to refute, are circulating here and feeding rage: they show that women were the particular targets ...

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Guinea military round up 'suspects'

Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 05.25.2011

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Guinean military discipline tested as hunt for president's would-be assassin heats up....

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Africa News Focus 24.10.09

SW Radio Africa | SW Radio Africa | Posted 05.25.2011

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Africa News Focus Alex looks at the EU threats of an international arms embargo against Guinea's ruling military junta, amid reports of a flare...

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