UPI almanac for Nov. 11, 2006.

UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The U.N. Security Council has voted to retain a ban on Liberian diamond exports, believed used to finance the African country's civil war. The council called on Liberia to comply with international rules confirming the gems' origins.

NEW YORK, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- Angela Merkel, Germany's first woman chancellor, has succeeded U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on the Forbes list as the world's most powerful woman.

UNITED NATIONS, June 16 (UPI) -- The United Nations Security Council has agreed to transfer the trial of Charles Taylor, Liberia's ex-leader, to The Hague, reported the BBC.

ABUJA, Nigeria, March 29 (UPI) -- Former Liberian President Charles Taylor has been transferred to the Special Court in Sierra Leone to face war crime charges.

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ABUJA, Nigeria, March 28 (UPI) -- Former Liberia President Charles Taylor, charged with war crimes, reportedly is missing from his exile in Nigeria.

ABUJA, Nigeria, March 26 (UPI) -- Human Rights Watch and a U.N. special prosecutor in Sierra Leone say Nigeria should arrest former Liberian strongman Charles Taylor immediately.

ABUJA, Nigeria, March 25 (UPI) -- Nigeria agreed Saturday to extradite former Liberian strongman Charles Taylor to face trial for war crimes. "President Olusegun Obasanjo has today, 25 March, informed President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf that the government of Liberia is free to take former Pr