Children gather around a burntout police truck following an overnight attack at Sheka Police station in Kano, Nigeria, on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012.
photo: AP / Sunday Alamba
Nigeria faces an existential threat
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London: Nigeria is up against a hydra-headed monster in the Boko Haram sect that claimed responsibility for last Friday's devastating attacks on the city of Kano. The group began its existence in relative obscurity, in Nigeria's remote and least developed region in the north-east, staging occasional drive-by shootings. But since a 2009...

Somali refugee children share a meal inside a tent in Dollo Ado, Ethiopia.  Fleeing drought and famine in their home country, thousands of Somalis have taken up residence across the border in Dollo Ado
photo: UN / Eskinder Debebe
One million children in Sahel at risk, UNICEF warns
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GENEVA (Reuters) - More than 1 million children in the Sahel are at risk of severe malnutrition and urgent action is needed to avert starvation akin to that in Somalia, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned on Friday. The agency appealed for $67 million for 8 countries in the region where it said instability fuelled by increasing...

People clean the scene of a car bomb attack in Zafaraniyah, Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Jan. 27, 2012.
photo: AP / Khalid Mohammed
Shiites in Firing Line as Dozens Killed at Iraq Funeral March
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A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-packed car near a funeral procession in southeastern Baghdad on Friday, killing at least 32 people in the latest brazen attack since the US troop withdrawal, officials said. Police officials said the blast occurred at about 11 a.m. in the predominantly Shiite neighborhood of...

File - A woman suspected of being a Gadhafi loyalist is seen behind bars inside a detention facility in Misrata, Libya, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011.
photo: AP / Manu Brabo
Doctors Without Borders halts work in Misrata
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Benghazi: Doctors Without Borders has suspended its work in prisons in the Libyan city of Misrata because it said torture was so rampant that some detainees were brought for care only to make them fit for further interrogation, the group said on Thursday. The announcement was compounded by a statement from Amnesty International saying it has...

Syrian army defectors, celebrate and wave the Syrian revolution flag shortly after they defected and join the anti-Syrian regime protesters at Khalidiya area in Homs province, central Syria, on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012.
photo: AP
Syria security forces kill 34 civilians: rights group
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Syrian security forces killed 34 civilians, including 10 children, in clashes across the country today, a rights group said. "The toll for the day has risen to 34 civilians killed by the security forces in several regions of Syria,...

100914-F-6350L-496       U.S. Army soldiers assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division walk out to a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft prior to a parachute drop during a joint forcible entry exercise at Pope Air Force Base, N.C., on Sept. 14, 2010.  A joint forcible entry training event is held six times a year in order to enhance cohesiveness between the Air Force and the Army.  DoD photo by Staff Sgt. Angelita M. Lawrence, U.S. Air Force.  (Released)
photo: AP / Staff Sgt. Angelita M. Lawrence, U.S. Air Force
US military to cut troop numbers, invest in future
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The Pentagon proposed taking some 100,000 troops off active duty as the debt-ridden United States winds down a decade of war, but vowed new investments to exert power in Asia and the Middle East. With pressure mounting to balance the US books, President Barack Obama's administration sought a 13 percent cut in Army numbers including pulling back two...

Nigeria President,Goodluck Jonathan, visits the site of the police headquarters bombed by a suicide bomber in Kano, Nigeria, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012.
photo: AP / Sunday Alamba
Jonathan urges Boko Haram to state demands
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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has challenged Boko Haram to identify themselves and state clearly their demands as a basis for talks. "If they clearly identify themselves now and say this is the reason why we are resisting, this is the reason why we are confronting government or this is the reason why we destroy some innocent people and their...

President Barack Obama delivers the State of the Union address in the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Jan. 24, 2012.
photo: White House / Chuck Kennedy
The 'Malaise' of Hope
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Before Dante Alighieri descended into hell in the "Divine Comedy," an inscription above the door read: Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here. Listening to President Barack Obama's State of the Union Address (SOTU), this is sadly what I was reminded of. For someone who campaigned on the "audacity of hope," it seemed his speech was more about the...

In this Dec. 14, 2011 file photo, veteran leader Sir Michael Somare, second right, attends a press conference after claiming to have been reinstated as Papua New Guinea's prime minister in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
photo: AP / Post-Courier
Papua New Guinea rebel soldiers demand return of former PM
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(Reuters) - The leader of a small band of soldiers who mutinied in Papua New Guinea on Thursday demanded the governor-general reinstate former Prime Minister Michael Somare and set a seven-day deadline for lawmakers to resolve a constitutional crisis. The resource-rich Pacific Island nation has been through a prolonged period of political...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, delivers the opening address at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012.
photo: AP / Michel Euler
Merkel demands closer EU links to avoid financial meltdown
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Angela Merkel has called Europe the world’s economic ‘headache’ and demanded closer ties between eurozone nations to avoid financial meltdown. The German leader told the World Economic Forum in Davos that a ‘big rethink’ was needed – but Mr Cameron will today chide Europe’s leaders and demand less EU...


Article By Gilad Atzmon This last weekend brought with it some vile manifestations of Jewish...
Editor's note: Today, January 27, is the second anniversary of the death of Howard Zinn. An...

A Syrian army defector, waves the Syrian revolution flag and shouts slogans shortly after he defected with other soldiers and join the anti-Syrian regime protesters at Khalidiya area in Homs province, central Syria, on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012
France's UN mission said the Security Council would meet behind closed doors today to discuss the next steps regarding Syria, with council envoys saying the 15-nation body would likely get a new Western-Arab draft resolution. "The UN Security Council...
photo: AP
File - A view of some of the flags of Member Nations at United Nations Headquarters, New York.
US Coast Guard crew members offload pounds of cocaine in Miami Beach, Flori... A 16 kilo (35.5 pounds) consignment of cocaine lost by Mexican drug traffickers has turned up in an unlikely place -- the United Nations in New York. Police and UN...
photo: UN / Joao Araujo Pinto
The Kepler-11 planetary system, with at least 6 planets in short orbits.
NASA's planet-hunting Kepler space telescope has found 11 new planetary systems, including one with five planets all orbiting closer to their parent star than Mercury circles the Sun, scientists said on Thursday. The discoveries boost the list of...
photo: Public Domain / NASA / Tim Pyle
Republican presidential candidates, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney participate in the Republican presidential candidates debate in Jacksonville, Fla., Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012.
The Republican presidential candidates are battling it out at a national debate in Florida - the last before the battleground state holds its primary. Earlier, front-runners...
photo: AP / Matt Rourke
A Libyan rebel carrying a parachute flare shell left behind by pro-Gadhafi forces, walks by a rebels pickup truck armed with a rocket launcher with a pre Gadhafi flag and Arabic that reads "February 17th, Free Libya" at the western gate of Ajdabiya, Libya Wednesday, April 13, 2011.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The Libyan civil war may have given militant groups in Africa's Sahel region like Boko Haram and al Qaeda access to large weapons caches, according to a U.N. report released on Thursday. The report on the impact of the...
photo: AP / Nasser Nasser
In this Aug. 23, 2004 file photo, American Jonathan Keith Idema, 48, smokes a cigarette in a court in Kabul, Afghanistan. Idema, a former Green Beret from North Carolina convicted of running a private jail in Afghanistan where he tortured terrorism suspects, has died at the age of 55.
Variously described as a conman, a fantasist, a sociopath, and a super-patriot, Jonathan Keith "Jack" Idema died alone on Saturday of complications relating to Aids, a police official in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo said. The...
photo: AP / Emilio Morenatti
Rescue worker remove a car after a building collapsed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday Jan. 25, 2012.
AP - A multistory building collapsed in Rio’s center Wednesday evening, leaving rubble strewn over a wide area but confusion about the number of possible victims and the cause. Thick layers of debris covered cars and motorcycles. A neighboring...
photo: AP / Felipe Dana

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