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Port-au-Prince May Soon Receive First Cruise Ship in 25 Years - Haiti's Minister of the Interior, Thierry Mayard-Paul, met with officials of a Christian missionary group last week, pushing for the group's Cruise With a Cause to bring volunteers to the Haitian capital in 2013.Haitian tourism took a nosedive after 1986, when civil unrest followed the ouster of president Jean-Claude Duvalier and peacekeeping troops replaced cruise ships and resorts. (Photo: THONY BELIZAIRE/AFP/Getty Images)

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Nelson Mandela to Appear on South African Money - The face of one of South Africa’s most venerated figures, Nelson Mandela, will soon grace the surface of the country’s new bank notes, President Jacob Zuma announced. The new bills will be available by the end of the year.(Photo: STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/AFP/Getty Images)

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Clinton Warns Poverty Fuels Nigeria Violence - Former president Bill Clinton warned Nigerians that the stark economic inequality the country harbors is at the root of the recent increase in violence.  (Photo: John Moore/Getty Images)

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Dominique Strauss-Kahn Questioned Over Alleged Prostitution Ring - Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is back in trouble with authorities as French police investigate his involvement in a prostitution ring allegedly operating out of two French hotels.(Photo: Julien M. Hekimian/Getty Images)

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U.K. Prime Minister Calls for Soccer Racism Summit - England’s recurring issue of racism among its soccer teams has caused Prime Minister David Cameron to call for an official summit on racism in the sport.(Photo: Paul Rogers - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

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U.S. to Send Legal Team to Haiti - A team of legal experts from the U.S. State Department visited Haiti to look at ways to help the country strengthen its judiciary and to consider the case of former strongman Jean-Claude Duvalier. (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

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African Cell Phones to Get Free Wikipedia Access - Millions of people in Africa on the Orange network will soon get free cell phone access to Wikipedia later this year.(Photo: REUTERS/Tom Kirkwood/Files)

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Amnesty International Warns Libyan Militias “Out of Control” - Armed militias are roaming freely throughout Libya, committing widespread human rights abuses and serving as de facto leaders, says a new report by human rights watchdog Amnesty International.(Photo: REUTERS/Andrew Winning)

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Thabo Mbeki: $50 Billion Exported Illegally From Africa Annually - Former South African President Thabo Mbeki says an estimated $50 billion leaves Africa every year via illegal exports.(Photo: STR/Landov)

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Darfur Rebels Free UNAMID Peacekeepers - The Justice and Equality Movement, Darfur's largest armed opposition group, said it has freed 49 international peacekeepers it had captured earlier, according to its spokesman.(Photo: Shashank Bengali/MCT/Landov)

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Liberia, Sierra Leone Discover Oil - Two oil companies have discovered deposits of oil off the coasts of Liberia and Sierra Leone."It will take time to fully appraise this discovery," Liberia National Oil company head Randolph McClain said on local radio, according to Reuters news agency. "And years — between five to seven years — before a drop of oil is produced from the well."(Photo: Bobby Yip/Reuters)

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Red Cross Urges Cease-Fire in Syria - The Red Cross warned that critical food and water supplies are running dangerously low in the Syrian city of Homs after government shelling pounded rebel strongholds and killed at least 30 people. (Photo: Mulham Alnader/Landov)

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Israel Calls for Tighter Iran Sanctions - Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak called for even tougher sanctions on Iran to force the Islamic republic to abandon its nuclear ambitions."I think there is consensus now in most of the capitals of the world that Iran should not be allowed to turn into a military nuclear power," Barak told reporters in Tokyo.(Photo: EPA/PATRICK B. KRAEMER/Landov)

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Iran Threatens Preemptive Action - Iran warned that it would strike against an "enemy," even if unprovoked, in an effort to protect its national interests. "Given this strategy, we will make use of all our means to protect our national interests and hit a retaliatory blow at them whenever we feel that enemies want to endanger our national interests," Mohammad Hejazi, the deputy head of Iran's armed forces, said.(Photo: VAHIDREZA ALAEI/AFP/Getty Images)