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Clinton calls to 'rid the world' of Kony as attacks rise
World NowThe notorious militia headed by Joseph Kony that has kidnapped hundreds of children and forced them to fight and serve as sex slaves must be stopped, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday in Uganda. But refugee and activist groups say the Lord&#... -
Elephants Safe in Congo Park Amidst Slaughter in Surrounding Forests
The loss of 5,000 forest elephants to poachers in northern Republic of Congo over the past five years makes protected areas for Africa’s dwindling wildlife more important than ever, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society. Conservationists...
Tags: State Parks, Africa, Environmental Issues, National Government, Conservation
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It's the sound of angels singing
This year, women are very much in charge of the Congo Square Theatre's annual production of "The Nativity." Starting with the new director, Ilesa Duncan, and extending all the way up to Gabriel. That archangel is played this year by Alexis J. Rogers,...Tags: Music, Music Theater, Customs and Tradition, Porgy and Bess (movie), Langston Hughes
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Bigger Gorillas Better at Attracting Mates & Raising Young
Conservationists with the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have found that larger male gorillas living in the rainforests of Congo seem to be more successful than smaller ones at attracting mates and...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Conservation, Busch Gardens Orlando, Anthropology, Endangered Species
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U.S. escalates clandestine war in Yemen
World NowIn an escalation of America’s clandestine war in Yemen, a small contingent of U.S. troops is providing targeting data for Yemeni airstrikes as government forces battle to dislodge Al Qaeda militants and other insurgents in the country’s... -
Report: Congo mutineer forces 149 more boys, young men to fight
World NowA Congolese army general has forced at least 149 boys and young men to join his mutinying forces in less than a month, repeating the crime for which he has long been wanted by the International Criminal Court, according to a new report from Human Rights... -
On Sunday: Alain Mabanckou, Jonathan Franzen and lumber as history
Jacket CopyIn Sunday books: a talk with UCLA author Alain Mabanckou, plus reviews of the latest by Jonathan Franzen, lumber as history and Anne Morrow Lindbergh's letters and diaries.... -
Conflict Minerals -- how your electronics help fuel a violent conflict in Africa
jscherder@ky3.comSPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Could your mobile phone, your computer, or even your gaming system help create violence somewhere thousands of miles away? According to one advocacy group, they do. "You don't think a lot about the purchases you make every day,"...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Electronics, Economy, Business and Finance, Science and Technology
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Congo Park Expanded to Protect Chimpanzees
The Republic of Congo has formally expanded Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park to protect an increasingly rare treasure: one of Africa’s most pristine forests and a population of “naive” chimpanzees with so little exposure to humans that the...Tags: Africa, Lincoln Park Zoo, Conservation, Environmental Issues, National Parks
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Adventures on Tintin's home turf in Brussels
![Director Steven Spielberg's "The Adventures of Tintin" starts innocently enough — with Tintin, it always does — at a flea market, where the dauntless boy reporter finds an old model boat. But blistering barnacles! — as his buddy Capt. Haddock would say — there's a secret inside about a long-lost pirate treasure. So Tintin sets out to find it, undeterred by goons with guns, crashes, explosions, cracks on the skull from behind.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-12/67034210-30143716.jpg "Director Steven Spielberg's "The Adventures of Tintin\" starts innocently enough — with Tintin, it always does — at a flea market, where the dauntless boy reporter finds an old model boat. But blistering barnacles! — as his buddy Capt. Haddock would say — there's a secret inside about a long-lost pirate treasure. So Tintin sets out to find it, undeterred by goons with guns, crashes, explosions, cracks on the skull from behind.")
Special to the Los Angeles TimesDirector Steven Spielberg's "The Adventures of Tintin" starts innocently enough — with Tintin, it always does — at a flea market, where the dauntless boy reporter finds an old model boat. But blistering barnacles! — as his buddy Capt....Tags: Artists, Arts, Raiders of the Lost Ark (movie), World War II (1939-1945), Artists
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Tension rises in Congo as election results delayed
World NowTension rises in Congo with violence expected and election results delayed: Election results in the Democratic Republic of Congo will be delayed 48 hours, state television announced late Tuesday, fueling tension in a controversial election that many... -
Congo bracing for violent protests with election results due
World NowThe Democratic Republic of Congo braced Tuesday for violent protests after the scheduled release late in the day of election results that likely will usher in a new term for President Joseph Kabila....
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