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US president Barack Obama is in South Korea on an official visit to talk about nuclear terrorism and how the world's nuclear material should be made more secure.

Investigators in France have said a suggestion by gunman Mohamed Merah that he was linked to al-Qaeda may have been false.

The African Union has said it will deploy 5,000 troops to hunt down Joseph Kony.

Brazil, Russia, India and China have become powerful engines of global economic growth over the past decade. The economist who first named these diverse emerging economies the "BRIC" nations, says their growth will continue, and may spread to some other emerging economies.

India has shared information about the Iranians being involved in an attack on an Israel diplomat in New Delhi.

AU Commission Chairman Jean Ping (l) and the acting Peace and Security Council Chairman, Nigerian Ambassador B. Paul Lolo brief reporters at African Union HQ, March 23, 2012

Tsewang Rigzin of Tibetan Youth Congress and hunger strikers, Mar 22, 2012.

The United States has served notice on India and 11 other major importers of Iranian oil that a decision on imposing financial sanctions on them would depend on progress in cutting down supplies from Tehran.

A Tuareg clinic in Kati, Mali, that was recently ransacked.

North Korea is warning world leaders not to raise the issue of its nuclear weapons during a summit next week in South Korea. The reclusive country says it will consider as a "declaration of war" any statement about the North Korean issue at the Nuclear Security Summit.