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French President Nicolas Sarkozy has named Rachida Dati, a woman with Moroccan and Algerian roots, to be justice minister. The appointment has great significance in a country still reeling from ethnic tensions that led to riots two years ago. It's also the first time that a woman tied to France's former North African colonies has been given such a high-ranking government position.

The introduction of Umaru Musa Yar'Adua as Nigeria's new president marks a significant point in the nation's history — the first time since independence from Britain in 1960 that Nigeria has witnessed the peaceful transition of power from one elected civilian leader to another.

The University of Colorado's Board of Regents will decide the fate of a professor who likens some who died on Sept. 11 to holocaust planner Adolf Eichmann. The school president says he should be fired.

The western Sudanese region of Darfur has been the scene of what many are calling an ethnic cleansing campaign by government-backed Arab militias against the local tribes. The Bush administration is now ratcheting up the rhetoric against the same government that the United States has praised for signing peace protocols to end a separate decades-old conflict. NPR's Michele Kelemen reports.

As the United Nations Security Council ponders a proposal to launch Kosovo as a sovereign nation, dividing it from Serbia, ethnic Serbs living there express concern about their futures.

The United Nations Security Council is discussing a proposal to set the province of Kosovo clearly on the path to independence from Serbia.

A group of Afghans are moving back to their homeland from Iran. The Shiite group is creating a settlement near Herat, where the population is mostly Sunni. Many see the move as trouble, and as a conspiracy created by Iran.

An Iraqi committee made up of Shiites, Sunnis and ethnic Kurds wants an extension to deliver a reform draft of Iraq's constitution. The deadline was today. What's the status of the document? Vali Nasr, a professor at the Naval Postgraduate School, talks about a key benchmark.

For more than a year before they moved in to make arrests, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies tracked the men accused of plotting to attack the Fort Dix Army base in New Jersey.