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STR/AP Central African Republic president Michel Djotodia announced Friday he was stepping down. He is shown here after arriving Thursday at a regional summit in Chad on the future of his desperate country. Central African Republic’s interim leaders caved in to international pressure and resigned on Friday after failing to halt inter-religious violence, prompting street celebrations but also questions over ...

Estelle Maussionestelle/Getty Images/WireImage Mariah Carey is under fire after performing for Jose Eduardo dos Santos, the president of Angola. Mariah Carey is under fire from human rights activists after performing a concert for Angolan president Jose Eduardo dos Santos. Dos Santos, who has been leader of the country since 1979, allegedly ordered the deaths of journalists and activists who protested ...

ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images Cars are scattered like toys in the aftermath of Friday’s oil pipeline explosions in Qingdao, China. The death toll rose to 52 on Sunday. BEIJING (AP) — China’s president on Sunday visited hospitalized victims of deadly explosions that ripped through residential and commercial roads from a ruptured pipeline owned by the country’s largest oil refiner. The ...

MASSOUD HOSSAINI/AFP/Getty Images Afghan president Hamid Karzai (left) talks as the head of the Loya Jirga, Sebghatullah Mujaddidi (right), listens during the first day of a meeting of around 2,500 Afghan tribal elders and leaders in Kabul on Thursday. Kabul rejected the council’s request to sign a security deal with the U.S. soon. KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan assembly has ...

The death toll from Typhoon Haiyan’s rampage through the Philippines is closer to 2,000 or 2,500 than the 10,000 previously estimated, President Benigno Aquino said on Tuesday as CNN reports two U.S. Citizens are among those killed. “Ten thousand, I think, is too much,” Aquino told CNN in an interview. “There was emotional drama involved with that particular estimate.” CNN, ...