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NAIROBI,  (Reuters) – Uhuru Kenyatta, indicted for crimes against humanity, was declared winner of Kenya’s presidential election today, but rival Raila Odinga said he would challenge the outcome in court and asked supporters to avoid violence.

KABUL,  (Reuters) – A suicide bomber blew himself up at a Defence Ministry gate in Kabul today killing nine civilians during a visit to Afghanistan by U.S.

KABUL,  (Reuters) – Afghan President Hamid Karzai ratcheted up his criticism of the United States yesterday, marring a debut visit by the new U.S.

NAIROBI,  (Reuters) – Uhuru Kenyatta, the son of Kenya’s founding president, won the presidential election with a slim margin of 50.03 percent of votes cast, just enough to avoid a run-off, provisional figures by the election commission showed yesterday.

CARACAS (Reuters) – From Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Cuba’s Raul Castro, about 30 heads of state joined Friday’s funeral of Hugo Chavez in a last goodbye to the charismatic but divisive Venezuelan leader who changed the face of politics in South America.

UNITED NATIONS/SEOUL,  (Reuters) – The United Nations imposed new sanctions on North Korea aimed at curtailing its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes and China, the isolated regime’s only major ally, said it wanted the measures fully implemented.

MENLO PARK, Calif.,  (Reuters) – Facebook Inc introduced a visually richer, mobile device-oriented “newsfeed” yesterday, in the most significant changes to date for the social network’s most recognizable feature.

SEOUL/UNITED NATIONS – North Korea threatened the United States on Thursday with a preemptive nuclear strike, raising the level of rhetoric just before the U.N.

CAPANGA, Mozambique, (Reuters) – For Mozambican tribal queen Zoria Macajo, the thatched-hut village of Capanga, nestled in the hills above the Zambezi river, has been her family’s home for generations.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez will be embalmed and put on display “for eternity” at a military museum after a state funeral and an extended period of lying in state, acting President Nicolas Maduro said today.

MENLO PARK, Calif.,  (Reuters) – Facebook Inc introduced a visually richer, mobile device-oriented “newsfeed” today, in the most significant changes to date for the social network’s most recognizable feature.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Saluting, clenching fists and making the Roman Catholic sign of the cross over Hugo Chavez’s open casket, Venezuelans crowded today to see their deceased leader one last time and pledge that his socialist revolution will not die.

CONAKRY,  (Reuters) – Russian aluminum giant RUSAL has quietly abandoned plans for a multi-billion dollar aluminum smelter in Guinea, according to a government source and documents seen by Reuters on Thursday.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – Mozambican police have seized 600 kg (1,300 lbs) of heroin, one of their biggest ever drugs hauls, hidden in a flat-bed truck they believe was heading from Kenya to South Africa, newspapers said on Thursday.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Sobbing and shouting, a sea of Hugo Chavez’s supporters paraded his coffin through the streets of Caracas yesterday in an emotional outpouring that could help his deputy win an election to keep his socialist revolution alive.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – A mix of sorrow, self-interest and dread took hold of Cuba Tuesday evening as word spread like wildfire that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who had done so much for the country, was dead.

UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – In response to North Korea’s third nuclear test, the U.N.

ST. LOUIS,  (Thomson Reuters Accelus) – Mexican drug cartels are using armored-car firms to help shield their efforts to smuggle and launder billions of cash dollars into legitimate-looking business profits, U.S.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Shattered supporters of Hugo Chavez paraded his coffin through the streets of Caracas today in a flood of emotion allies hope will help his deputy win an election due in the coming weeks and keep his self-styled revolution alive.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – An Egyptian court threw the timetable for parliamentary elections into confusion today, ordering the cancellation of President Mohamed Mursi’s decree calling the vote and forcing a likely delay to polls due to start in April.