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In this image made available by the Iranian Students News Agency, an Iranian navy vessel launches a missile during a drill Sunday in the sea of Oman.

Last week, while African leaders toiled behind closed doors at a luxury hotel to try to prevent renewed war between Sudan and South Sudan, U.S. and other Western diplomats huddled in the lobby waiting for updates.

JUBA, South Sudan - Thousand of people flooded into the streets of this unlikely riverside boomtown early Saturday to celebrate the birth of the world's newest nation, the Republic of South Sudan - a land of searing poverty, windfall petrodollars and violent strife.

Directors of the American Society for Addiction Medicine meeting in Washington are scheduled on Sunday to discuss a report from three of its top California members that recommends replacing the state's besieged medical marijuana program with a system that treats and taxes pot like alcohol.