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West African leaders meet with Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo, right, at the Presidential palace in Abidjan, 28 Dec 2010, with left to right; Benin President Boni Yayi, Cape Verde President Pedro Pires, Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma
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Ivory Coast Tensions at Fever Pitch

Crowd attacks UN convoy in Abidjan; ECOWAS delegation leaves empty-handed after urging incumbent president to step down

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2010 Year in Review

A Look Back

The top world events of the year

The winner of the 2009 Business Bomba competition came up with the idea of marketing a nutritious tea called "Morvigor" made from the leaves of the Moringa plan

"Business Bomba"

Competition invites innovative thinkers

Mummified tree remains on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian High Arctic

Mummified Forest

Tree remains are up to 10 million years old

Roller Derby

All-Female Resurgence

Tibet Exiles

Future without Dalai Lama looms

Runaways

Ivorians find refuge in Guinea

Many participants in the Ivory Coast Twitter discussion are newcomers to the micro-blogging website, Dec 2010

Debate by Tweet

Ivory Coast election lights up Twitter

In the play, "Return to Haifa" Said and Safia, played by Ghanam Ghanam and Raeda Taha, return to the home they fled in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war to find the son they abandoned raised Jewish, and an Israeli soldier.

Return to Haifa

Lebanon theater stirs Palestinian emotions

The Jewish family that lived with the Kazazi family (pictured) escaped the Nazis during searches by scrambling through connecting doorways to other homes.

Untold WWll Story

Albanian Muslims shelter Jews from Nazis

social media

Going Viral

Social media advertising a hit

   

 

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