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An operation to tow a disabled cruise ship packed with desperate passengers back to the United States was delayed Thursday after one of the cables attaching it to a flotilla of tugs snapped.

• 15 февраля 2013, 18:58

An international donor conference to drum up funds and troops to help the military operation against Islamist militants in Mali opened on Tuesday at the African Union headquarters in Ethiopia's capital.

• 30 января 2013, 10:24

French warplanes have destroyed two Islamist bases in northern Mali as an Al-Qaeda-linked group there split, with the splinter group calling for talks to end the offensive against the militants.

• 26 января 2013, 11:28

The French offensive in Mali will burden a defence budget that was expected to get relief from the withdrawal of French forces from Afghanistan.

• 21 января 2013, 10:23

The first troops from a multinational African intervention force were expected in Mali Wednesday as French soldiers drove out to face Islamist fighters in the north, in their first operation.

• 16 января 2013, 18:05

Spain's 74-year-old King Juan Carlos had successful hip replacement surgery late Friday, the royal palace said, after two operations on the other hip caused by a fall during a controversial African elephant-hunting safari.

• 24 ноября 2012, 19:04

A Mexican man pleaded guilty Tuesday over the killing of a US border agent that threw a spotlight on the United States' controversial "Fast and Furious" gun-tracking operation, prosecutors.

• 31 октября 2012, 14:25

More than four years after an African Union-UN peacekeeping force costing billions of dollars arrived in Sudan's restive western region of Darfur, peace remains elusive and some question the mission's value.

• 20 августа 2012, 12:04

Top US military officials believe recent high-profile leaks of classified information have caused "damage" to national security operations, US lawmakers said Thursday after a closed-door hearing.

• 20 июля 2012, 17:34

Aktobe police has successfully performed the operation on apprehension to the criminals suspected of murdering the road police officer.

• 25 июня 2012, 19:34

Liver transplantation is one of the most difficult surgeries. The operation performed was twice as difficult as the usual one.

• 03 января 2012, 19:20