In the shadow of authoritarian figures, some women played a much more important role than it seems. Accomplices and victims ...

Had Col. Muammar Qaddafi been a bit more than a barking dog hidden behind a high fence, perhaps he would have been driven to take his life in the sewage pipe where he was captured, Stanley Crouch ...

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LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) – A federal judge in Nigeria on Monday sentenced to death the feared right-hand man to Nigeria’s former military dictator over the 1996 killing of an opposition candidate’s wife.