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Details: Written by FRANCES D'EMILIO, Associated Press; Published: 07 March 2018

(AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

No one party or coalition captured enough seats to rule, making country’s future unclear

Details: Written by BRAHIMA OUADRAOGO, Associated Press; Published: 02 March 2018

(AP Photo/ Ludivine Laniepce)

Attack on French Embassy in Burkina Faso leaves assailants, soliders killed

Details: Written by CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press; Published: 27 February 2018

(AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

An animal welfare group extracted the lions from a zoo in eastern Mosul in Iraq and an amusement park near Aleppo in Syria

Details: Written by SAM OLUKOYA, Associated Press; Published: 26 February 2018

This image taken from video shows the exterior of Government Girls Science and Tech College in Dapchi, Yobe State, Nigeria on Feb. 22. Parents in northern Nigeria say more than 100 girls are still missing three days after suspected Boko Haram extremists attacked their school. The announcement comes after government officials in Yobe state acknowledged that some 50 young women remained unaccounted for in the Monday evening attack. (AP Photo)

Boko Haram extremists seized 110 girls in a raid remniscent of the group's kidnapping of 276 girls in 2014

Details: Written by NATALIYA VASILYEVA, Associated Press; Published: 23 February 2018

37-year-old Ruslan Gavrilov was part of a private military company involved in a Feb. 7 attack on Kurdish fighters in Syria

Details: Written by CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press; Published: 13 February 2018

(AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)

Leaders of South Africa's ANC party are struggling to remove President Zuma from office amid reports he asked for concessions in exchange for his resignation

Details: Written by By BASSEM MROUE, Associated Press; Published: 09 February 2018

(AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Stream of returnees may grow as stability returns to the country

Details: Written by ARON HELLER, Associated Press; Published: 30 January 2018

On April 1, the Israeli government plans to start expelling Africans, some of whom have been in Israel for years and have children who know no other home

Details: Written by ROBERT BURNS and LOLITA C. BALDOR, AP National Security Writers; Published: 30 January 2018

Restrictions contradict previous Pentagon assertions that it was striving to be more transparent about U.S. war campaigns in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan

Details: Written by The Associated Press; Published: 25 January 2018

(AP Photo/Nasser Nasser, File)

AP correspondents take stock of volatile, unprecedented year in global politics

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