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Fill title: A beautiful day! The Obamas join U2's Bono and The Edge for lunch at a stunning chateau in the medieval French city of Èze - before jetting off to Italy to stay with George Clooney at his Lake Como villa Barack, 57, and Michelle, 55, were joined by their daughters Malia, 20, and Sasha, 18, on their lunch date with Bono, 59, and The Edge, 57, on Friday The group walked though Èze as they made their way to the two-Michelin-starred restaurant La Chèvre d'Or Bono's wife Ali Hewson, 58, appeared to be with them, as well as...

THE MOSLEM MENACE. Otago Witness , Issue 2797, 23 October 1907, Page 78 SOME FACTS ABOUT THE SENUSSIA "The next 20 years will see Europe struggling in the throes of an African war against forces so great that at the end it is unlikely to a degree that a single white man remains in Africa," says Captain H. A. Wilson, in a very striking and informative article on "The Moslem Menace" in the Nineteenth Century for September. "Nor am I alone in this belief," he adds. "I have quoted Dr. Carl Peters to this effect... visible signs of the deep...

Mauritanian authorities acting with French help arrested Muammar Gaddafi's former chief of intelligence, Abdullah al-Senussi, as he entered the West African country on a false passport, officials said on Saturday. Senussi, who for decades before the late dictator's fall inspired fear and hatred in ordinary Libyans, is sought by the Hague-based International Criminal Court on charges of crimes against humanity. The whereabouts of Senussi, the last major figure at large from Gaddafi's regime, had been unclear for months.

Libya's new defence minister has said he has seen no evidence to back claims by his government that it has captured Abdullah al-Senussi, Muammar Gaddafi's former intelligence chief who is wanted by the international criminal court. Osama Jweli said that since being appointed to the defence post on Tuesday night he had made inquiries trying to establish if Senussi had been captured but had had no reply. "I have not seen any proof," he said. "When our Thwar [revolutionary fighters] capture someone, you have pictures of him on video straight away, or anyway within a couple of hours, made by...