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Global News Blog French flags selling out in Mali's capital

France's military intervention has been widely greeted here. Normally, Malian attitudes towards its former colonial ruler range from resentment to admiration.

Algeria hostage crisis brings world to North Africa's anti-Islamist fight (+video)

French will triple troops in Mali, prepare for ground fight

Terrorism & Security Mali rebel fighters better prepared than first thought: French officials

Refugees no more, Liberians ponder if they're ready to go home

Terrorism & Security Mali Islamists threaten to retaliate 'at the heart of France' (+video)

France pushes back Mali rebels with airstrikes

Change Agent SOCCKET energy-generating soccer ball powers up poor villages

Hollande: France will help Mali after Islamists take town

Latin America Monitor Four Nigerians arrested for drug trafficking in Venezuela

The men who would save Mali's manuscripts

'Pilgrims' pour into Sandy Hook Village after massacre (+video)

Mali's ex-rocket-scientist prime minister forced to quit by army (+video)

Why Africa's lions are rapidly disappearing

Islamists silence the musicians who guide rural Mali

Will Mali be Africa's Afghanistan?

Opinion Mali security nightmare: Why foreign intervention alone won't stop the chaos

In world's most religious country, humanists rally for secular space

Presidential debate 101: In oil drilling spat, did Obama make his best case?

Change Agent Mobile technology boosts access to clean water for the poor

How much is Romney backed in Britain?

Change Agent Beyond big dams: turning to grass-roots solutions on water

New French Muhammad cartoons inflame prophet film tensions (+video)

How do you contribute to modern day slavery of human trafficking?

Africa Monitor Arms, drugs, and human trafficking: What does the future hold for northern Mali?