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Nigeria's big spenders make a flamboyant splashLAGOS, Nigeria - The waiter at Caliente bar sticks a sparkler into yet another bottle of champagne and hits a siren mounted behind the bar to draw everyone's attention to the sleek Nigerian businessmen who ordered it. More » |
U.S. joins U.N. rights council as member for first timeGENEVA - The U.S. attended its first formal meeting of the U.N. Human Rights Council as a member Monday, saying it will try to promote dialogue at a body it once avoided and heavily criticized. More » |
Thousands pay respects to Cuban revolutionary heroHAVANA - Tens of thousands of Cubans lined up Sunday to pay their respects to Juan Almeida Bosque, a vice president and hero of the country's 1959 revolution whose death at the age of 82 further thinned the ranks of this communist-run country's old-guard leaders. More » |
