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Former British premier Tony Blair encourages investment in Sierra Leone, now war is over

UK’s Blair encourages investment in Sierra Leone

Netanyahu to meet Sarkozy amid questions over settlements and Israeli commitment to peace

Netanyahu in Paris with peace efforts in peril

NC officials say shipwreck is Civil War vessel that was set ablaze by fleeing crew in 1862

NC officials ID Civil War ship that burned at sea

‘Devil’s Dream’ tells story of Civil War general and Klan founder

Story told of contradictory Civil War general

Resigned diplomat argues US troops should not be involved in Afghanistan’s ‘civil war’

Diplomat: US engaged in ‘civil war’ in Afghanistan

Spain starts exhuming mass grave believed to hold remains of poet Federico Garcia Lorca

Spain starts exhuming purported Garcia Lorca grave

Baghdad attacks stoke fears of violence in Iraq as Sunnis struggle for power and relevance

Baghdad attacks stir fears of Sunni violence

Fate of oil-rich Kirkuk stalls Iraq electoral law, amid fears key elections will be delayed

Fate of oil-rich Kirkuk stalls Iraq election law

Sri Lanka military says it foils escape bid by war refugees, wounds 2

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lankan soldiers fired on a group of war refugees trying to flee a camp in the north of the island, wounding two, the military said Sunday.

Gunmen in southern Sudan kill at least 80 as wave of tribal violence engulfs the south

CAIRO — Gunmen attacked a village in southern Sudan and killed some 80 people and wounded 46, said a southern government official Monday, adding that he believed the militia was organized by the central government.

Sri Lanka’s president promises UN it will resettle all war-displaced civilians in 4 months

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka’s president promised Friday to send nearly 300,000 Tamil war refugees who are being held in military-run camps back to their homes in the next four months, the government said.

US envoy says Iraqis are not returning to sectarian warfare, despite recent violence

WASHINGTON — The U.S. ambassador to Iraq is assuring members of Congress that despite a recent rash of insurgent attacks, Iraq is standing firm against a return to widespread sectarian violence.

Obama’s envoy in Sudan to bolster peace deal as activists say US too lenient on Khartoum

CAIRO — President Barack Obama’s envoy to Sudan launched a new mission Wednesday to overcome obstacles in the country’s fragile north-south peace deal, as activists sharply criticized U.S. policies as too lenient on the Khartoum government.

Prominent Spanish judge in court over allegations he overstepped bounds in civil war probe

MADRID — The Spanish judge best known for indicting Augusto Pinochet and Osama bin Laden appeared in court Wednesday with the tables turned: this time he was a suspect, accused of overstepping his authority in a huge domestic case involving Spanish civil war atrocities.

UNICEF protests expulsion of spokesman from Sri Lanka, rejects allegations of bias

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — The United Nations children’s agency expressed concern Tuesday about Sri Lanka’s decision to expel its spokesman and rejected allegations that it was biased against the government during the recently ended 25-year civil war.

Report: More tribal violence in southern Sudan leaves 24 dead, dozens wounded

KHARTOUM, Sudan — An attack on a southern Sudan village has left 24 people dead, including a tribal chief, his three wives and several children, while dozens were wounded, a newspaper reported Saturday.

Fears in Lebanon that indictment in former PM assassination will spark sectarian violence

BEIRUT — No one knows when an international court will issue its first indictments in the assassination of Lebanon’s former prime minister, but Lebanese are already afraid it could spark a wave of violence between its Shiite and Sunni communities.

Rights group urges Sri Lanka to free war refugees held in flood-hit camps

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — A human rights group on Tuesday urged Sri Lanka to release hundreds of thousands of war refugees from camps hit by flooding over the weekend saying their lives were in danger from disease.

UN says floods have hit camp holding war-displaced Tamils in Sri Lanka

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Heavy rains have destroyed or damaged hundreds of shelters housing ethnic Tamils displaced during Sri Lanka’s civil war, the United Nations said Monday.

Heavy rains flood camps holding 300,000 war-displaced Sri Lankans

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Heavy rains have caused havoc in camps housing nearly 300,000 people displaced by war in Sri Lanka’s war-ravaged north, an official said Sunday.

Amnesty International says satellite images show grave sites in Sri Lanka’s former war zone

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — A series of satellite images taken over Sri Lanka’s former war zone showed the existence of large grave sites and evidence of possible mortar positions near areas that had been packed with trapped civilians, a human rights group said Thursday.

Diversity, equality part of the message as modern South prepares for Civil War’s 150th

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — To mark the Civil War’s centennial 50 years ago, some whites donned Confederate uniforms or hoop skirts and paraded to sentimental notions of the Old South, partly in answer to the civil rights struggle exploding around them. Blacks quietly met apart to celebrate the Emancipation Proclamation.

Capa’s photograph of a militiaman shot during Spain’s Civil War likely staged, researchers say

MADRID — Robert Capa’s photograph of a falling Spanish Civil War militiaman became one of the most famous and enduring images of conflict in the 20th century. Now, Spanish researchers who have studied events surrounding the picture believe it may have been staged.

Rights group urges IMF to link Sri Lanka loan to progress on human rights

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka’s government should be forced to rectify serious human rights abuses before it receives an emergency loan from the International Monetary Fund, a human rights group said Thursday.

Defeated Tamil Tiger rebels name new leader after top guerrillas killed by Sri Lankan forces

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka’s defeated Tamil Tiger rebels have named a man accused of running a vast arms smuggling operation as their new leader, two months after government forces crushed the separatist movement.

AP correspondent leaves Sri Lanka after the government declines to renew his visa

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — The Associated Press bureau chief in Sri Lanka, who broke news of private U.N. reports outlining civilian death tolls, has been denied permission to remain in the country.

Nobody in or out: Sri Lanka interns Tamil war refugees with help of foreign aid

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — In just six months, one of the world’s largest camps for war refugees has been carved out of the jungles of northern Sri Lanka, complete with banks, post offices, schools and a supermarket. But no one is allowed out, and hardly anyone is allowed in.

French aid agency demands international probe into massacre of its workers in Sri Lanka

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — A French aid agency is demanding an international investigation into the massacre of 17 of its workers in Sri Lanka three years ago, after a government inquiry reportedly failed to identify the killers.