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Nigeria's abducted schoolgirls: We'll sell them as slaves, pledges Boko Haram terror leader
Full Article The Independent
06 May 2014

In a chilling message, the leader of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for the abduction of nearly 300 schoolgirls in the north of Nigeria last month, and said that he would sell them into slavery. “I abducted your girls,” Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau said in the one-hour video released on Monday. “By Allah, I...

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Women attend a demonstration calling on the government to rescue kidnapped schoolgirls of a government secondary school Chibok, in Abuja, Nigeria. Wednesday, April 30, 2014.
photo: AP / Gbemiga Olamikan

updated 05 May 2014; published 05 May 2014
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Leader Boko Haram Will Sell 276 Kidnapped Schoolgirls
updated 05 May 2014; published 05 May 2014
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"I abducted your girls" says Boko Haram's leader - BBC News
updated 05 May 2014; published 05 May 2014
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Boko Haram 'To Sell' 230 Nigeria Girls Abducted From Chibok!!!
updated 05 May 2014; published 05 May 2014
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I Will Sell Your Girls Boko Haram Leader Says In Nigeria
updated 05 May 2014; published 05 May 2014
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Boko Haram Leader Shekau Releases Video On Abduction Of Chibok Girls
updated 06 May 2014; published 06 May 2014
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Nigeria Group Threatens to Sell Kidnapped Girls
Promise to end Muslim Brotherhood
Full Article Belfast Telegraph
06 May 2014

Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, the former military chief who removed Egypt's Islamist president and is poised to win the upcoming presidential election, has said the Muslim Brotherhood will never return as an organisation. Mr el-Sissi also accused the Brotherhood of using militant groups as cover to destabilise the country. Speaking the first TV interview...

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A bystander throws a tear gas canister that came back from the al-Azhar University campus after the canister was originally shot by the Egyptian security forces towards protesters at the school in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, May 2, 2014.
photo: AP / Mohammed Abu Zaid

updated 06 May 2014; published 06 May 2014
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Egypt's Former Military Chief El-Sissi: Muslim Brotherhood, Morsi are 'Finished
updated 06 May 2014; published 06 May 2014
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Egypt's Sisi Vows Muslim Brotherhood Will Not Exist - 6 May 2014
updated 06 May 2014; published 06 May 2014
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Egypt's Sisi says Muslim Brotherhood is finished
updated 06 May 2014; published 06 May 2014
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Egypt : Sisi says the Muslim Brotherhood is 'finished'
updated 04 Jul 2013; published 04 Jul 2013
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Muslim Brotherhood Spokesman tells BBC World News that pro Morsi rally is being fired on
updated 06 May 2014; published 06 May 2014
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Abdel Fattah al-Sisi: Muslim Brotherhood will not exist in Egypt if I'm elected
Clinton's Biggest Regret and Deception...And Ours
Full Article WorldNews.com
05 May 2014

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. When then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton exclaimed "At this point does it really matter anymore," regarding the four U.S. citizens-including an ambassador-killed in the Sept. 12, 2012 Benghazi, Libya attacks, her words were a reflection of a careless and cruel society, versus one that is...

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Secretary of State Hillary R. Clinton addresses the media along during a joint press conference with Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta and their Korean counterparts at the Department of State, Washington, D.C., June 14, 2012. (DoD Photo By Glenn Fawcett) (Released)
photo: US DoD / Glenn Fawcett

updated 28 Jan 2014; published 28 Jan 2014
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Hillary Clinton: "My biggest regret is what happened in Benghazi"
updated 30 Jan 2013; published 30 Jan 2013
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Hillary Clinton: Benghazi is my Greatest Regret
updated 28 Jan 2014; published 28 Jan 2014
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Hillary Clinton: Benghazi is my "biggest regret"
updated 27 Jan 2014; published 27 Jan 2014
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Hillary Clinton Admits BIGGEST Regret is BENGHAZI Attack
updated 30 Jan 2014; published 30 Jan 2014
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Hillary Clinton Admits BIGGEST Regret is BENGHAZI Attack- New Latest News
updated 29 Jan 2014; published 29 Jan 2014
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Clinton Haunted by Benghazi: Hillary Clinton calls 9/11 Benghazi attack her biggest single regret
Missing flight MH370: Canberra talks map out search plan
Full Article BBC News
05 May 2014

Officials from Australia, Malaysia and China have met to map out a way forward in the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane. Transport ministers from Malaysia and China joined the Australian deputy leader and Angus Houston, the official leading the search, at the talks in Canberra. So far, an intensive search operation has found no sign...

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U.S. Navy contractors lower the Bluefin-21 into the Indian Ocean from the deck of the Australian Defence Vessel Ocean Shield, 26 April, 2014. The submersible is being utilized to search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH 370.
photo: US Navy / MCS1 Peter D. Blair

updated 05 May 2014; published 05 May 2014
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Missing Flight MH370 Canberra Talks Map Out Search Plan
updated 24 Mar 2014; published 24 Mar 2014
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Missing plane Flight MH370 'crashed in south Indian Ocean No Survivors #RIPMH370 #MH370
updated 09 Mar 2014; published 09 Mar 2014
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BREAKING: Malaysia PM Announces Flight MH370 CRASHES Into Indian Ocean - 24 Mar 2014
updated 12 Mar 2014; published 12 Mar 2014
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Malaysia Airlines MH370: How to Search for a Missing Plane | The Short Answer
updated 10 Mar 2014; published 10 Mar 2014
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Malaysia Airlines crash: Navy ships and helicopters search for missing flight MH370
updated 09 Mar 2014; published 09 Mar 2014
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Missing Malaysia Airlines plane 'may have turned back' - 9 March 2014
Pistorius defense enters critical phase at trial
Full Article Palm Beach Post
05 May 2014

Oscar Pistorius' murder trial enters a critical phase Monday as his defense team attempts to recover from a faltering start and reinforce the disabled athlete's claim that he fatally shot girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp by mistake because he was overwhelmed by a long-held fear of violent crime. Pistorius' mindset when he stood on his stumps in a...

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Oscar Pistorius buries his head in his hand as he listens to cross questioning, in the second week of his trial, about the events surrounding the shooting death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, in court during his trial in Pretoria, South Africa, Monday, March 10, 2014. Pistorius is charged with the shooting death of his girlfriend Steenkamp, on Valentines Day in 2013.
photo: AP / Bongiwe Mchunu

updated 04 May 2014; published 04 May 2014
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Pistorius defense enters critical phase at trial
updated 04 May 2014; published 04 May 2014
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Quote of the day: "Oil spills can have positive effects"
updated 05 May 2014; published 05 May 2014
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Pistorius Defense Enters Critical Stage at Trial
updated 05 May 2014; published 05 May 2014
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Pistorius Trial Resumes: Can The Defense Repair Its Case?
updated 06 May 2014; published 06 May 2014
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Oscar Pistorius Trial: Tuesday 6 May 2014, Session 2
updated 05 May 2014; published 05 May 2014
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Pistorius Trial Resumes After Two-week Recess
Moscow to give peace another chance
Full Article The Hindu
04 May 2014

Russia hopes to initiate peace talks in coming days between Ukrainian authorities and rebellious eastern regions even as Kiev presses on with its military crackdown on anti-government protesters. “I think new efforts will be undertaken in the next few days to bring to the negotiating table Kiev’s authorities and representatives of the...

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Elderly women applaud masked pro-Russian demonstrators who stormed the military Prosecutor's Office in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, May 4, 2014.
photo: AP / Evgeniy Maloletka

updated 22 Apr 2014; published 22 Apr 2014
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Russia says Kiev 'breaking Geneva accord' on Ukraine - 21 April 2014
updated 21 Apr 2014; published 21 Apr 2014
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Kiev's Neo-fascist Right Sector breaks it's own Geneva Peace Deal
updated 17 Apr 2014; published 17 Apr 2014
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Expectations are low as ministers gather for Ukraine crisis talks in Geneva
updated 13 Apr 2014; published 13 Apr 2014
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Russia says armed action by Ukraine against Russian-speakers would threaten peace talks
updated 05 Feb 2014; published 05 Feb 2014
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Syria opposition group SNC in Moscow for talks on crisis
updated 17 Apr 2014; published 17 Apr 2014
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Ukraine crisis: Deal to 'de-escalate' agreed in Geneva - "NewsWatchking"
South Sudan government forces advance on Bentiu oil hub
Full Article BBC News
04 May 2014

Government forces in South Sudan are advancing on the oil town of Bentiu, which was taken by rebels last month. A BBC correspondent at a UN base outside the town has heard heavy firing and seen government troops and armoured vehicles driving towards the centre. Rebel forces deny UN charges that they killed hundreds of people along ethnic lines...

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In this image taken from video people travel on the road near Bentiu South Sudan on Sunday April 20, 2014. U.N.'s top humanitarian official in south Sudan Toby Lanzer told The Associated Press in a phone interview Tuesday April 23, 2014, that the ethnically targeted killings are "quite possibly a game-changer" for a conflict that has been raging since mid-December and that has exposed longstanding ethnic hostilities.
photo: AP / Toby Lanzer, United Nations

updated 15 Apr 2014; published 15 Apr 2014
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Pro-Machar forces Seized Bentiu In South Sudan
updated 15 Jan 2014; published 15 Jan 2014
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South Sudanese government troops takes South Sudanese Oil Town Bentiu from Mashar forces
updated 23 Dec 2013; published 23 Dec 2013
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South Sudan: Rebels seize Bentiu, capital of the oil producing Unity State
updated 05 May 2014; published 05 May 2014
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South Sudan crisis: Bentiu government offensive halted
updated 04 May 2014; published 04 May 2014
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South Sudan government forces battle for Bentiu oil hub
updated 22 Dec 2013; published 22 Dec 2013
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South Sudanese Rebels Control Oil Rich Bentiu
Odessa violence part of Russia plan 'to destroy Ukraine'
Full Article New Straits/Business Times
04 May 2014

ODESSA: Deadly clashes and a fire in Odessa that killed 42 people in one day were part of a plan by Russia “to destroy Ukraine,” the prime minister of the ex-Soviet republic said on Sunday. “Russia’s aim was to repeat in Odessa what is happening in the east of the country,” Arseniy Yatsenyuk told a news conference. He was...

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Police troops guard the burnt trade union building in Odessa, Ukraine, Saturday, May 3, 2014. Tensions in Ukraine heightened sharply after at least 42 people died in clashes between government supporters and opponents in Odessa on Friday.
photo: AP / Vadim Ghirda

updated 04 May 2014; published 04 May 2014
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BREAKING NEWS - Pro-Russians attack Odessa police HQ
updated 04 May 2014; published 04 May 2014
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Odessa Violence Flares Anew as PM Blames Deaths on Russia-4th may 2014
updated 05 May 2014; published 05 May 2014
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Ukraine crisis: Odessa detainees freed as police HQ attacked | BREAKING NEWS - 05 MAY 2014
updated 04 May 2014; published 04 May 2014
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Pro-Russians Activists Attack Police HQ In Odessa
updated 04 May 2014; published 04 May 2014
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Detainees In Odessa Released From Police HQ
updated 02 May 2014; published 02 May 2014
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2014 - BBC World News - Uprising Spreads to Odessa as Ukraine Army Helicopters Shot Down - 3/5/14
Aid sent to Afghanistan landslide site
Full Article Al Jazeera
04 May 2014

Aid groups are trying to reach survivors of a landslide in northern Afghanistan that buried a village, killing hundreds of people and leaving 700 families homeless in the mountains. Supplies began arriving on Sunday as the aid groups struggled to reach the village via poor mud roads that were unable to take heavy vehicles. Much of Aab...

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Survivors sit with their possessions near the site of Friday's landslide that buried Abi-Barik village in Badakhshan province, northeastern Afghanistan, Saturday, May 3, 2014.
photo: AP / Amir Shah

updated 04 May 2014; published 04 May 2014
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Bad roads hinder Afghan mudslide aid effort
updated 04 May 2014; published 04 May 2014
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Aid Groups Try To Find Survivors Afghan Landslide
updated 04 May 2014; published 04 May 2014
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Aid rushed to survivors after Afghan landslide kills hundreds
updated 04 May 2014; published 04 May 2014
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Aid Rushed to Survivors After Afghan Landslide Kills Hundreds
updated 04 May 2014; published 04 May 2014
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Aid Rushed to Survivors After Afghan Landslide Kills thousands
updated 04 May 2014; published 04 May 2014
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No Survivors Found in Afghanistan Landslide
Police kill 2 suspects, arrest 8 in India violence
Full Article Newsday
04 May 2014

Photos GAUHATI, India - (AP) -- Police said Sunday they killed two suspected rebels and arrested eight forest guards for alleged involvement in the killings of 29 Muslims in the worst ethnic violence in India's remote northeast in two years. Four suspected insurgents hurled a grenade and fired at policemen who ambushed them in a dense forest, said...

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Relatives of victims killed in ethnic violence mourn at a burial ground at Narayanguri village, in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, Saturday, May 3 2014.
photo: AP / Anupam Nath

updated 28 Jan 2014; published 28 Jan 2014
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RFA Khmer News on 28 Jan 2014,Police release suspect violent clashes
updated 15 Jan 2014; published 15 Jan 2014
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Police suspected in Brazil rampage 12 people dead, sparks voilence
updated 03 Sep 2012; published 03 Sep 2012
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East Delhi violence: 20 suspects detained - NewsX
updated 05 Jan 2014; published 05 Jan 2014
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Violence, street clashes mar elections in Bangladesh
updated 05 Nov 2013; published 05 Nov 2013
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Karachi Operation Rangers, Police Arrest 28 Suspects 4th November 2013
updated 04 May 2014; published 04 May 2014
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BREAKING NEWS - Malaysian police round up suspected terrorists; unrelated to MH 370, police say

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Lexington Herald-Leader
Declaring that “there is no such thing as ‘too big to jail,’” Attorney General Eric Holder hinted on May 5th that the Justice Department is ready and...
Welcome to Jihad City, Syria
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Three years of civil war has created a catastrophe in Syria with few parallels in the 21st century. A tragedy for average Syrians, for others the carnage has been an opportunity....
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Angelina Jolie is speaking out to condemn the mass kidnapping of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls...
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