May 9, 2014 -- Updated 0734 GMT (1534 HKT) Abuja, Nigeria (CNN) -- U.S. military officials arrive in Nigeria on Friday to help in the search for hundreds of girls kidnapped by Islamist militants, the Pentagon said. The seven will join advisers supporting local efforts to find the girls abducted over three weeks ago, said U.S. Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby, who serves as Pentagon press secretary. There are no plans to send American combat troops, according to Kirby. "Our interagency team is hitting...
The chairman of the central committee of the People’s Republic ofDonetsk was clear: Vladimir Putin is undoubtedly a friend of the south-east of Ukraine but his request to postpone a referendum on Sunday would have to be declined. Denis Pushilin, the head of the self-proclaimed state, made his...
The tone at the World Economic Forum in Nigeria today was tempered by the 276 school girls being held hostage by an extremist group, as Nigerian PresidentGoodluck Jonathan vowed the kidnappings would be the "beginning of the end of terror in Nigeria." Speaking at the World Economic Forum in the...
Many composers have been affected by war. Some were killed in battle, others by disease, and still others suffered physical or emotional wounds. The Pianist, the fourth concert in...
ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press= LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) â Islamic militants who have triggered international outrage over the kidnapping of more than 270 Nigerian schoolgirls opened fire on a busy marketplace, killing hundreds of people in a new spasm of violence in the country's northeast. The...
