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Libyan Rebels Report Gains in Misrata Fighting
By not in system - AOL NewsTRIPOLI, Libya -- Rebels battled Moammar Gadhafi's troops Thursday for control of central Misrata, driving dozens of snipers from tall buildings in hours of urban warfare and gaining a tactical advantage in the only major city held by the opposition in western Libya, witnesses said. The Libyan government, meanwhile, ramped up its rhetoric against NATO, warning that "it will be hell" for the alliance if it sends in ground troops, even though Britain's prime minister said the Western nations were not moving toward such a deployment. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said President ...
Millions of Dollars Donated for Malaria Drugs Stolen
By not in system - AOL NewsLONDON -- A leading global health fund believes millions of dollars worth of its donated malaria drugs have been stolen in recent years - perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars worth - vastly exceeding levels of theft previously suspected, according to confidential documents obtained by The Associated Press. The internal investigation by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria comes two months into a new anti-corruption program that the fund launched after an AP report detailing fraud in their grants attracted intense scrutiny from donors. In internal documents detailing ...
Lesson From Ivory Coast: How to Give Birth During a War
By Dana Kennedy - AOL NewsTwo weeks ago, Julie Esse, about nine months pregnant, looked as if she could become another tragic footnote in Ivory Coast's bloody conflict. Instead, her story -- with its twist ending -- turned out to be something O. Henry might have written, with a title about two bags of Type O negative blood and details about scary guys brandishing Kalashnikovs and machetes. Esse, 35, a hat and accessories designer, began having what she thought were contractions on April 6, the morning after a mortar blast tore a hole in her family's Abidjan apartment during the siege to capture Laurent Gbagbo, who ...
Libyan Rebels Urge Stronger US Military Role
By not in system - AOL NewsDOHA, Qatar - A spokesman for Libyan rebels urged the U.S. military Wednesday to reassert of stronger role in the NATO-led air campaign or risk more civilian casualties in the stalemate fighting between Moammar Gadhafi and forces seeking to end his four-decade rule. The appeal by the spokesman, Mahmoud Shammam, appeared to set the urgent tone for the rebels' meetings with the U.N.'s secretary-general and other top Western and Arab envoys as they gathered in Qatar's capital to discuss ways to end the Libyan crisis. But Shamman said the anti-Gadhafi forces will not bend on their demands that ...
Ivory Coast Residents Under Siege: 'The World Has Forgotten About Us'
By Dana Kennedy - AOL NewsJulie Esse, who is about to give birth, was among the millions of frightened residents of Abidjan hiding at home today as Ivory Coast's besieged President Laurent Gbagbo holed up in a bunker at the presidential palace, refusing to budge. Despite the defection of his troops, and under attack from French and U.N. forces who stormed the palace, Gbagbo remained defiant, though he was expected to be finally ousted from power sometime today. That may not help Esse, 35, whose home was hit by mortar fire this week. She said she was trying not to panic over the prospect of giving birth at her home ...
11-Year-Old Florida Boy Climbs Mount Kilimanjaro
By Jane Healey - AOL NewsWorld traveler Nico Saporito has been to the Galapagos Islands and the Amazon rain forest, and he just completed his latest, most challenging expedition -- climbing to the summit of Africa's highest mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro. He's done all of this, and yet he hasn't even finished middle school. Nico is only 11 years old, making him one of the youngest people to ever reach the 19,000-foot summit of Kilimanjaro. The fifth-grader from Loxahatchee, Fla., got the idea for climbing Kilimanjaro from watching a special on the Discovery Channel three years ago, in which two 12-year-olds hiked to ...
Zimbabwe Expert: The Truth About Killing 'Problem' Elephants
By Dana Kennedy - AOL NewsZimbabwe's premier conservationist, a 62-year-old man who says he's endured assassination attempts for trying to preserve wildlife in one of Africa's poorest and most repressive countries, can't watch the video showing Bob Parsons, the billionaire CEO of GoDaddy.com, shooting and killing an elephant. "I've seen so many of the atrocities against elephants and other wildlife here that it sickens me to the bottom of my soul," Johnny Rodrigues, chairman of the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force, told AOL News today on the telephone from Harare. "But I have read what Parsons said, and he is totally ...
'Humanitarian Tragedy' Unfolding in Ivory Coast
By Betwa Sharma - AOL NewsUNITED NATIONS -- Though the world's attention is fixed on Libya, the fighting in another hot spot -- Ivory Coast -- is escalating. The power struggle between the country's two leaders has claimed hundred of lives and displaced 1 million people. On Friday, France and Nigeria circulated a draft resolution in the U.N. Security Council, imposing sanctions on Laurent Gbagbo, the incumbent president who has refused to step down, and his advisers. The resolution will also stop heavy weapons from entering the capital, Abidjan. "The first consensus is that we are facing a humanitarian tragedy in ...
On World Water Day, Ways You Can Help
By not in system - AOL NewsIt might be the most taken-for-granted resource we enjoy: fresh, clean water. But every day, 900 million people have no clean water, and 2.6 billion have no access to adequate sanitation. Almost 10,000 children younger than 5 in Third World countries die as a result of illnesses contracted by use of unclean water each day, according to the Water and Sanitation Rotarian Action Group. In fact, unsafe water is the largest killer of children younger than 5, worldwide. On this, World Water Day, tips and suggestions about how to help the millions who can't enjoy the luxury of a daily hot shower or ...
Five Protesters Killed in Syria, Activist Says
By not in system - AOL NewsBEIRUT -- Syrian security forces launched a harsh crackdown Friday on protesters calling for political freedoms, killing at least five people and marking the gravest unrest in years in one of the most repressive states in the Mideast, according to accounts from activists and social media. Mazen Darwish, a prominent Syrian activist in Damascus, said at least five people were shot and killed when security forces tried to disperse hundreds of protesters in the southern town of Daraa, near the Jordanian border. He cited eyewitnesses and hospital officials at the scene. Sasha Mordovets, ...
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