(Reuters) - The U.S. Internal Revenue Service suffers from weaknesses in a number of its internal financial controls, said a report released on Monday by the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of the U.S. Congress. Full story
BAMAKO (Reuters) - At least five suicide bombers died in northern Mali on Friday in attacks aimed at Malian and Nigerien troops which failed to inflict serious casualties on their targets, a spokesman for Mali's army said. Full story
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Internal Revenue Service may be missing potential tax dodgers who report their foreign accounts but who avoid paying penalties by not reporting previous years' returns, a government watchdog said in a report released on Friday. Full story
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The high-security laboratories that study such deadly diseases as anthrax and plague lack national standards and strategy, putting the country at risk, a congressional watchdog reported on Monday. Full story
BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali's army repulsed an attack by a group of Islamist rebels who had slipped past army checkpoints to enter the northern Malian town of Gao, a military official said on Saturday. Full story
International Editor Lindsey Hilsum hears the brutal and distressing testimony of those who lived through the rule of Al Qaeda in the Maghreb in Gao. After liberating the cities of Gao and Timbuktu, French forces have now taken control of the airport of Kidal, the last remaining northern urban stron
Thousands of residents came out to celebrate after French and Malian troops entered the town of Gao on Sunday, with a parade of motorbikes honking their horns and people weeping in disbelief. Lindsey Hilsum of the UK's Channel 4 News reports.
Bill Wolff, executive producer of the Rachel Maddow Show, shares a preview of Thursday’s show--the U.S. Senate votes overwhelmingly to speed up the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, plus a new report released by the GAO gives President Obama the go-ahead on something he promised to do long ago, and
A woman poses for a picture while cleaning the destroyed main market in Gao, March 2, 2013. REUTERS/Joe Penney
French soldiers drive VBCI armoured vehicles through the mud outside Gao, March 9, 2013. REUTERS/Emmanuel Braun/Files
A French soldier stands next to an VBCI armoured vehicle during an operation to collect explosives found in a house in Gao, February 27, 2013. REUTERS/Joe Penney/Files
TOPSHOTSA malian boy sits in a is leaving his house in a cart a street of Gao, on April 5, 2013. The United Nations expressed concern over reprisal attacks against ethnic Tuaregs and Arabs in Mali, where a French-led intervention recently routed Islamist rebels. AFP PHOTO / JOEL SAGETJOEL SAGE
