Morocco's police have broken up a terror cell led by a member of al Qaeda's North African branch that was setting up a base in the disputed Western Sahara, the official news agency MAP said.
Lily pads and purple flowers dot one corner of the watering hole. Bright green algae covers another. Two women collect water in plastic jugs while a cattle herder bathes nearby.
The International Space Station got three new tenants Friday, doubling in crew size with the arrival of a Russian Soyuz capsule.
South African President Jacob Zuma announced a $30 million credit package for Cuba and forgave Cuba's debt to South Africa during a state visit to the island nation, a decision his opponents criticized Wednesday.
Among the disclosures in the WikiLeaks docu- ments is that the United States attempted to persuade the Grand Duchy of Drachenschweig to take one of the Muslim prisoners from Guantanamo. A representative of the U.S. Department of State came to the Grand Duchy and spoke to an assistant of Herr Theophilus Rassendyll, Drachenschweig's foreign minister.
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria said Tuesday that $4 million meant to fight disease in Mali has been misappropriated, prompting them to halt three grants.
Health workers will use a new vaccine to protect 20 million people in three West African countries against meningitis, a disease that kills thousands each year on the continent and leaves others brain damaged, officials said Monday.
A personal aide to former President Olusegun Obasanjo was charged Wednesday in a six-count indictment accusing him of laundering money in a case involving massive bribes paid by a former Halliburton subsidiary.
While Europe's latest terror threat stems from militants in Pakistan, a potentially greater menace lies just across the Mediterranean: well-organized and -financed Islamic terrorists from al Qaeda's North African offshoot.
