Heads of state gathered Saturday in Ivory Coast for the inauguration of President Alassane Ouattara, a ceremony expected to mark a symbolic end to a political standoff that triggered bloody clashes.

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Ivory Coast welcomes new president

Afghan lawmakers met at a hotel in the country’s capital Saturday morning to discuss whether to proceed with the inauguration of parliament despite President Hamid Karzai’s decision to postpone the ceremony.

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On January 17, 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower issued his prophetic warning about the military-industrial complex, anticipating the increased political, economic, military and even cultural influence of the Pentagon and its allies. Several weeks earlier, he had privately told his senior advisers in the Oval Office, “God help this country when someone sits in this chair who doesn’t know the military as well as I do.” Several months after his inauguration in 1953, he warned against warfare that had “humanity hanging from a cross of iron.” read more

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Jerry Brown prepares for his inauguration as the new governor of the US state of California, taking over from outgoing Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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