By David Gollust Washington 28 March 2006 Nigerian policemen, seated lower right, guard the mansion of former Liberian president Charles Taylor in Calabar, Nigeria, March, 28, 2006 U.S. Secretary of S

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Ghost of Diana at Royal Wedding? For Prince Charles and longtime lover Camilla Parker Bowles, Princess Diana will be the ghost at their wedding feast. Could it be sweet revenge from beyond the grave? Diana always said her marriage was a bit crowded b

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My friend Charles convinced me to go into business with him about a year ago. I wish I had had the benefit of hindsight to say no. I was too trusting and that was my downfall. At first, everything was fine. We worked our butts off to get the business

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By Paula Wolfson Washington 29 March 2006 The White House has welcomed the arrest by Nigerian police of former Liberian President and rebel leader Charles Taylor. Taylor arrived in Liberia en route to

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By Melinda Smith Washington, DC 19 September 2006 watch New Parkinson's Treatment There is new hope for many patients suffering from the progressive neurological disorder called Parkinson's disease. A recent study by a team of German doctors reports

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By Nico Colombant Abidjan 27 January 2006 Liberia's new president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, is facing increased pressure to make sure her predecessor Charles Taylor is surrendered to the war crimes cour

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By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 29 March 2006 Nigeria directed the immediate extradition of former Liberian leader Charles Taylor, to Liberia shortly after he was detained while trying to flee into Cameroon

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By Nico Colombant Abidjan 15 June 2006 Human rights activists are giving mixed reviews to a decision by Britain to jail Charles Taylor if Liberia's former president is convicted for his role during Sierra Leone's civil war. The decision paves the wa

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: There was a gathering here in Washington, D.C. last week that had nothing to do with the inauguration or with politics. It was an occasion for matchmaking, although not a romantic kind. Here, farmers got set up with chefs in an e

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Right in the path of Hurricane Florence, there's an area where pigs far outnumber people. A big worry is the state of hundreds of open-air lagoons filled with manure. Torrential rain could cause them to overflow. Here's NPR's Dan C

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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: In North Carolina, most of the rain has ended, but flooding continues. Much of the area where Florence dumped the most rainfall is covered with farms - chicken farms, sweet potato farms, hog farms - and the damage to those farms

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By Kari Barber Dakar 03 July 2007 Liberia's former president Charles Taylor ended a boycott Tuesday of his trial for war crimes he is accused of committing during Sierra Leone' decade long civil war. Mr. Taylor had boycotted the trial, which began la

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By Lauren Comiteau Amsterdam 04 June 2007 Prosecutors and clerks in Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague, the Netherlands, 04 Jun 2007 The trial of Charles Taylor opened without the accused in the dock Monday in The Hague, as the former Liberi

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By Joe Bavier Freetown 03 April 2006 Former Liberian President Charles Taylor has made his first appearance before Sierra Leone's special war crimes court. Joe Bavier was at the U.N.-backed court in F

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By Bill Gasperini Moscow 07 April 2007 American software designer Charles Simonyi is due to head into space Saturday along with two Russian cosmonauts for a ten-day stay at the International Space Station. Simonyi was born in Hungary and is the fifth

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By VOA News 08 December 2006 An author of the Iraq Study Group report says a continued rise in violence in Iraq could lead to a catastrophe in the Middle East. Charles Robb (VOA TV image) Former U.S. Senator Charles Robb of Virginia made that assess

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By Nico Colombant Dakar 02 February 2007 The war crimes trial for former Liberian President Charles Taylor is set for early June at the Hague. Prosecutors at the Special Court for Sierra Leone have charged Mr. Taylor with war crimes and crimes again

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