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Murtala Mohammed airport is seen from a bridge in Lagos, Nigeria Saturday Dec. 26, 2009.
Kidnapping   Lagos Airport   Photos   UK   Wikipedia: Kidnapping   		 The Washington Post 
Spokesman: Briton kidnapped near Nigeria’s Lagos airport
Fri 19 Jul 2013
LAGOS, Nigeria — A British Consulate spokesman says a Briton has been kidnapped near the airport of Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital. | Wale Adebayo says diplomats are working with Nige... (photo: AP / Sunday Alamba)
Cte dIvoire President Gives Press Conference Alassane Dramane Ouattara, President of Cte dIvoire, speaks to journalists.
Defense   Nigeria   Photos   UN   Wikipedia: Alassane Ouattara   		 Herald Tribune 
Ivorian leader: Nigeria pulling troops from Mali
Thu 18 Jul 2013
ABUJA, Nigeria - Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara says Nigeria is withdrawing some of its 1,200 troops in Mali to fight an Islamic uprising back home. | The announcement comes 10 days before el... (photo: UN / Mark Garten)
Police Service of Northern Ireland officers come under attack from petrol bombs thrown by Nationalists in the Ardoyne Area of north Belfast, Northern Ireland, Monday July 12, 2010. Police battled Irish nationalists for control of a Belfast road Monday as a day dominated by peaceful Protestant parades across Northern Ireland turned violent when night fell.  Swissinfo  Tue 16 Jul 2013
Northern Ireland parliament recalled as violence continues
  | Reuters | July 16, 2013 - 09:27 | By Conor Humphries and Ian Graham | BELFAST (Reuters) - Protestant youths hurled petrol bombs at police in Northern Ireland, wounding at least 27 officers in... (photo: AP)
Belfast   Parliament   Photos   Violence   Wikipedia: Parliament of Northern Ireland  
Asiana - Airlines  Swissinfo  Tue 16 Jul 2013
Asiana to sue TV station after gaffe over pilot name
  | Reuters | July 16, 2013 - 04:11 | By Gerry Shih | SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Asiana Airlines said Monday it will sue a TV station that incorrectly reported racially offensive names of four pil... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc)
Airline   Court   Photos   Transport   Wikipedia: Asiana Airlines Flight 214  
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Meeting of the Russian Pobeda (Victory) Organising Committee. Swissinfo Mon 15 Jul 2013
Russia's Putin wants Snowden to go, but asylum not ruled out
  | Reuters | July 15, 2013 - 20:45 | By Alexei Anishchuk | GOGLAND ISLAND, Russia (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Monday he wanted Edward Snowden to le... (photo: Russian Presidential Press and Information Office)
Moscow   NSA   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Vladimir Putin  
Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., sits before the committee he has served on for 28 years and led for the past four as he seeks confirmation as U.S. secretary of state, on Capitol Hill in Washington. New U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his South Korean counterpart have agreed to make sure North Korea is punished if it carries out its threat to conduct a nuclear test. Amid signs that such a test is coming, South Korea's president also speculated that Pyongyang may detonate multiple atomic devices simultaneously. Swissinfo Mon 15 Jul 2013
Kerry to visit Jordan, Israel-Palestinian peace on agenda
  | Reuters | July 15, 2013 - 19:28 | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will brief Arab officials in Jordan on Wednesday about his push to re... (photo: AP / J. Scott Applewhite)
Amman   Peace   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: John Kerry  
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir speaks to reporters during a visit to Tripoli, Libya The News & Observer Sun 14 Jul 2013
Indicted Sudanese leader arrives in Nigeria
ABUJA, Nigeria — Sudan's indicted leader Omar al-Bashir arrived Sunday in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, to a red-carpet welcome and a full guard of honor despite demand... (photo: AP / Abdel Magid al-Fergany)
Nigeria   Photos   Politics   Sudan   Wikipedia: Omar al-Bashir  
Capital of Swat Valley " Saidu Sharif ". In 1023, Sultan Mahmud Ghaznavi conquered Swat and defeated the last Buddhist King, Raja Gira in battle. Swissinfo Wed 10 Jul 2013
In Pakistan, army adamant on fighting the other Taliban
  | Reuters | July 10, 2013 - 08:00 | By Frank Jack Daniel | KALAM, Pakistan (Reuters) - In the past few years, Pakistan's Swat valley has been occupied by Islamic i... (photo: Creative Commons / Isruma)
Afghanistan   Pakistan   Photos   Taliban   Wikipedia: Swat District  
British Prime Minister David Cameron holds a press conference with South African President Jacob Zuma following their meeting at Union Building in Pretoria, South Africa, Monday July 18, 2011. South China Morning Post Tue 9 Jul 2013
Britain leads in African investment
British business has invested the most in African mergers and acquisitions over the past decade, a study shows. | Investors have become increasingly attracted to Africa, ... (photo: AP / Jerome Delay)
Africa   Britain   Economy   Photos   Wikipedia: Economy of Africa  
A man waits at an intersection across the street from the gasoline price board at the Shell gas station in San Mateo, Calif., Monday, Oct. 11, 2004. High crude oil futures prices are being blamed for a spike in the cost of gasoline, which has gone up nearly 8 cents a gallon over the past two week CBC Mon 8 Jul 2013
Shell tops Fortune 500 list but Exxon most profitable
Oil companies dominated the top tier of Fortune magazine's list of the world's 500 largest corporations, released Monday, with Wal-Mart, Toyota and Volkswagen also cracki... (photo: AP / Jeff Chiu)
Business   Exxon   Photos   Royal Dutch Shell   Wikipedia: Royal Dutch Shell  
In this Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011 photo, a police officer armed with an AK-47 rifle walks past pedestrians as he patrols a major road in Maiduguri, Nigeria. The radical sect Boko Haram, which in August 2011 bombed the United Nations headquarters in Nigeria, is the gravest security threat to Africa's most populous nation. New York Post Online Sat 6 Jul 2013
27 students, teacher killed by gunmen at Nigerian boarding school
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, -- Suspected Islamist gunmen killed 27 students and a teacher in a boarding school in the northeast Nigerian town of Potiskum on Saturday, a police so... (photo: AP / Sunday Alamba)
Boko Haram   Nigeria   Photos   School Attack   Wikipedia: Nigerian Sharia conflict  


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