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U.S. Goods Are the Top Draw at Afghanistan’s Black Markets (Time.com)

November 3rd, 2010

Time.com - The black market in U.S. goods — both consumer and military — is thriving in the Afghan capital and outside the biggest NATO base in the country

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Slovenia elects its 1st black mayor (AP)

October 24th, 2010

AP - Slovenia elected its first black mayor on Sunday, an immigrant from Africa known as the “Obama of Piran,” the town where he lives.

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US court grants bail to Conrad Black (AFP)

July 19th, 2010

Disgraced media mogul Conrad Black, pictured in 2007, was granted bail by a US court as he appeals a six-and-a-half year jail term imposed in 2007 after he was convicted of defrauding shareholders.(AFP/File/Jeff Haynes)AFP - Disgraced media mogul Conrad Black was granted bail by a US court as he appeals a six-and-a-half year jail term imposed after being convicted of defrauding shareholders.


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Vienna black American assault case to higher court (AP)

June 24th, 2010

U.S. citizen Mike Brennan, 34, from Jacksonville, Fla., enters the court room  in Vienna, Austria, on Thursday, June 24, 2010. A policeman is accused of attacking Brennan on  Feb. 11 2009 when two undercover police officers mistook him for a drug dealer, assaulted him and left the scene when they realized he was not the person they were seeking. Brennan has lived in Austria for about four years and teaches at an binternational/b school in the Austrian capital. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)AP - An Austrian judge sent the case of a black American mistaken for a drug dealer and tackled by an undercover policeman to a higher court Thursday, saying the…

Black box found after fiery India plane crash (AP)

May 23rd, 2010

A search operation team member carries a box recovered from the remains of the Air India Express plane that crashed in Mangalore, in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, Sunday, May 23, 2010. Investigators searching for clues as to what caused India's worst air disaster in more than a decade recovered the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder Sunday from the charred remains of the flight. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)AP - As crash investigators pulled the black box from the charred, twisted wreckage of an Air India plane Sunday, Koolikkunnu Krishnan marveled that he escaped the crash alive. Of…

Searchers locate zone of Air France black boxes (AP)

May 6th, 2010

AP - Investigators have narrowed down the zone in the Atlantic depths where the black box flight recorders of Air France Flight 447 are believed to be located, nearly a…

Ukraine, Russia ratify Black Sea naval lease (AP)

April 27th, 2010

Ukrainian opposition and pro-presidential lawmakers fight against each other during ratification of the Black Sea Fleet deal with Russia, in parliament in Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 27, 2010. Ukraine's parliament has voted to extend Russia's lease of a Crimean naval port for the Black Sea Fleet in a chaotic session during which eggs and smoke bombs were thrown. The countries' presidents agreed last week to extend the Russian navy's use of the Sevastopol port for another 25 years after the old lease expires in 2017. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)AP - Lawmakers brawled, threw eggs at each other and set off smoke bombs in Ukraine’s parliament Tuesday as the legislature erupted into chaos over a vote allowing the Russian…

Black empowerment law delayed in Zimbabwe (AP)

April 14th, 2010

AP - Zimbabwe’s mostly white-owned businesses won’t immediately have to comply with a law that requires them to hand over 51 percent control to blacks, two ministers said Wednesday.

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New search starting for Air France black boxes (AP)

March 25th, 2010

Norway's Seabed Worker, one of the ships that will be used in the third search of a crashed plane's black boxes, is seen at the port of Recife, Brazil, Thursday, March 25, 2010. French investigators probing last year's mysterious crash of an Air France jet in the mid-Atlantic are gearing up for a third search for the plane's black boxes and an explanation for why it plunged into the ocean. All 228 aboard died. (AP Photo/Otavio de Souza)AP - The lead investigator of last year’s Air France jetliner crash that killed 228 people off the coast of Brazil said Thursday he hopes a third search for debris…

In Thailand, A Little Black Magic Is Politics as Usual (Time.com)

March 20th, 2010

Time.com - Last’s weeks blood protests in Bangkok were a rare public revelation of a more covert aspect of the ongoing conflict between the country’s political movements — a war…