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Hong Kong leader says he will not step down
Full Article Al Jazeera
03 Oct 2014

Authorities in Hong Kong have offered to hold talks with pro-democracy protesters who are continuing to occupy central areas of the southern Chinese city, pressing for political reforms. Minutes before a midnight deadline set by the protesters for Hong Kong's chief executive Leung Chun-ying to resign passed, Leung said he would send his chief...

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A pro-democracy protester is taken away by police officers as an ambulance tries to leave the compound of the chief executive office in Hong Kong, Friday, Oct. 3, 2014.
photo: AP / Vincent Yu

updated 10 Feb 2014; published 10 Feb 2014
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'Long Hair' (Leung Kwok-hung) protests during the Hong Kong Government's Spring Reception.
updated 30 Sep 2014; published 30 Sep 2014
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More join protests in Hong Kong despite government warning to go home
updated 30 Sep 2014; published 30 Sep 2014
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Umbrella Revolution: Hong Kong's Biggest Protests in Decades Challenge China on Political Freedom
updated 01 Oct 2014; published 01 Oct 2014
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TAB: Hong Kong Protesters Will Negotiate, but not with Leung
updated 28 Sep 2014; published 28 Sep 2014
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Clashes at Hong Kong pro-democracy protest, leader promises more talks
updated 28 Sep 2014; published 28 Sep 2014
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Hong Kong Protest: Tear gas and clashes at democracy Hong Kong protest Occupy Central movement
UN accuses Islamic State of 'gross rights abuses'
Full Article BBC News
02 Oct 2014

A "staggering array" of human rights abuses has been committed by Islamic State (IS) militants and associated armed groups over a nine-week period in Iraq, the UN says. It says that abuses committed between 6 July to 10 September may amount to war crimes or crimes against humanity. Iraqi leaders must unite to restore control over IS...

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in this Monday, June 30, 2014 photo, militants from the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) celebrate the group's declaration of an Islamic state, in Fallujah, 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq. The militant extremist group's unilateral declaration of an Islamic state is threatening to undermine its already-tenuous alliance with other Sunnis who helped it overrun much of northern and western Iraq. (AP Photo)
photo: AP

updated 02 Oct 2014; published 02 Oct 2014
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UN accuses Islamic State of 'gross rights abuses'
updated 26 Jun 2010; published 26 Jun 2010
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French Police accused of racial killings
updated 29 Jul 2014; published 29 Jul 2014
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ISIL urges Syrian, Iraqi women to provide info for 'marriages'
updated 31 Jul 2014; published 31 Jul 2014
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Takfiri terrorists open marriage bureau aimed at sex slaves
updated 02 Oct 2014; published 02 Oct 2014
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UN rights chief slams ISIL 'war crimes'
updated 24 May 2012; published 24 May 2012
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'US backed off Libya-style regime change in Syria'
China FM issues warning over 'illegal' protests in Hong Kong
Full Article The Siasat Daily
02 Oct 2014

October 02: China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi has issued a stern warning against any "illegal" protests in Hong Kong. Currently on a visit to Washington, Wang also warned that the matter was an "internal affair" for China. His U.S. counterpart, Secretary of State John Kerry, also urged Hong Kong to exercise restraint in dealing with the protests....

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Pro-democracy student protesters sleep on an occupied main street outside of the government complex in Hong Kong, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014.
photo: AP / Wally Santana

updated 02 Oct 2014; published 02 Oct 2014
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China issues warning over Hong Kong 'illegal' protests
updated 02 Oct 2014; published 02 Oct 2014
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China issues warning over Hong Kong 'illegal' protests
updated 02 Oct 2014; published 02 Oct 2014
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Hong Kong protests:China issues warning over Hong Kong 'illegal' protests
updated 02 Oct 2014; published 02 Oct 2014
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China issues warning over Hong Kong illegal protests
updated 02 Oct 2014; published 02 Oct 2014
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China warns Hong Kong against 'illegal protests'
updated 01 Oct 2014; published 01 Oct 2014
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China issues warning over Hong Kong 'illegal' protests
File - President of the Republic of Sudan, Omar Hassan al Bashir (with cane), and First vice president and president of the Government of Southern Sudan, Salva Kiir Mayardit (waving), greet the crowd at the celebrations of the 5th anniversary of the signing of the CPA (Comprehensive Peace Agreement), 10 January, 2010.
photo: UN / Tim McKulka

updated 23 May 2014; published 23 May 2014
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South Sudan - Small Arms Activity
updated 25 Dec 2008; published 25 Dec 2008
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Proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons in African Conflicts 1
updated 15 Sep 2014; published 15 Sep 2014
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A call for arms: Community security and arms control in Darfur
updated 07 Oct 2011; published 07 Oct 2011
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Cattle raiding and small arms control in South Sudan
updated 24 Feb 2014; published 24 Feb 2014
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Lebanon's Illegal Arms Dealers
updated 10 Feb 2009; published 10 Feb 2009
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Guns Hold Up Development (short version)
Ebola outbreak: 'Five infected every hour' in Sierra Leone
Full Article BBC News
01 Oct 2014

A leading charity has warned that a rate of five new Ebola cases an hour in Sierra Leone means healthcare demands are far outstripping supply. Save the Children said there were 765 new cases of Ebola reported in the West African state last week, while there are only 327 beds in the country. Earlier, the World Health Organization (WHO) said two...

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In this photo taken on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014, healthcare workers load a man suspected of suffering from the Ebola virus onto an ambulance in Kenema, Sierra Leone, Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014.
photo: AP / Tanya Bindra

updated 02 Oct 2014; published 02 Oct 2014
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Ebola outbreak 'Five infected every hour' in Sierra Leone
updated 29 May 2014; published 29 May 2014
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Guinea Ebola outbreak still spreading, Sierra Leone also affected
updated 31 Jul 2014; published 31 Jul 2014
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Sierra Leone, Liberia declare health emergency over Ebola outbreak
updated 02 Oct 2014; published 02 Oct 2014
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Ebola Outbreak Five infected every hour in Sierra Leone
updated 22 Sep 2014; published 22 Sep 2014
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130 new Ebola cases reported after Sierra Leone lockdow
updated 02 Oct 2014; published 02 Oct 2014
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Ebola outbreak:'Five infected every hour' in Sierra Leone

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Summer 2014: a year since George Zimmerman was acquitted for killing Trayvon Martin. Another summer of violence and justification: US shells incinerating Palestinian children,...
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Palestinian BDS (Boycott Divestment and Sanctions) is a non-violent movement to secure Palestine’s right to independence. Fittingly, in the spirit of Gandhian satyagraha, on the...
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What’s the Matter with the Global Financial System? As torrential water cannons, stones, and tear gas canisters pounded the thousands of protestors gathered outside, the European...

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron talks during a joint news conference with Afghanistan's president Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Oct. 3, 2014. Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron on Friday pledged support for Afghanistan's newly sworn-in president and the country's new unity government, saying during a surprise visit to Kabul that Britain is committed to helping Afghans build a more secure and prosperous future.
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KABUL (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron made a surprise visit...
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At PK12, the last checkpoint at the exit of the town, a Muslim woman who was on a truck attacked by looters walks to join another vehicle, as Chadian soldiers protect the lorry as thousands of Muslim residents from Bangui and Mbaiki flee the Central African Republic capital Bangui in a mass exodus using cars, pickups, trucks, lorries and motorcycles, Friday, Feb. 7, 2014.
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Katarina Hoije BANGUI— Muslims who fled attacks in the Central African Republic’s capital Bangui over the past 10 months are starting to return, only to find their homes looted and destroyed. Tens of thousands of Muslims fled the...
photo: AP / Jerome Delay
Maseru is the capital of Lesotho. It is also the capital of the Maseru District. Located on the Mohokare River, bordering South Africa, Maseru is Lesotho's only sizable city, with a population of approximately 227,880 (2006). The city was established as a police camp and assigned as the capital after the country became a British protectorate in 1869. When the country achieved independence in 1966, Maseru retained its status as capital. The name of the city is a Sesotho word meaning "place of the red sandstone".[1]
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Gillian Parker JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICALesotho’s national general elections will be held at the end of February, two years earlier than planned. The announcement Thursday came after government coalition leaders signed an agreement meant to...
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People look at damaged vehicles, at the scene of a car bomb explosion, at the central market, in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Tuesday, July 1, 2014. A car bomb exploded in a market in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri on Tuesday morning, and dozens of people are feared dead, witnesses said. They immediately blamed Boko Haram, the Islamic extremist group whose birthplace is Maiduguri and which is accused of a series of recent bomb attacks in the West African nation.
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VOA News The man who says he is Boko Haram chief Abubakar Shekau has appeared in a new video, dismissing reports that he was killed by the Nigerian military. The video, obtained by French news agency AFP and released Thursday, shows the man saying...
photo: AP / Jossy Ola
Britain's Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge with Prince George arrive for their visit to New Zealand at the International Airport, in Wellington, New Zealand, Monday, April 7, 2014.
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2 October 2014, 12:45 Photographers Told To Leave Prince George Alone Tweet Lawyers for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have written to two photographers to stop them following Prince George. A Buckingham Palace...
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Children arriving home from school walk past the main entrance to The Ivy Apartments complex, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2014, in Dallas. The man diagnosed with having the Ebola virus was staying at the complex with family.
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Two days after he was sent home from a Dallas hospital, the man who is the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the United States was seen vomiting on the ground outside an apartment complex as he was bundled into an...
photo: AP / Tony Gutierrez
The Curiosity rover is a nuclear-powered Mars rover that is part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission by the United States. The MSL spacecraft—with its payload Curiosity—was launched on 26 November 2011 and successfully landed on Aeolis Palus in Gale Crater on 6 August 2012
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MUMBAI: Isro and Nasa have set up a joint Mars working group to enhance co-operation between the two countries in the explorations of the Red Planet. Isro chairman K Radhakrishnan and Nasa administrator Charles Bolden signed a charter in this regard...
photo: Creative Commons / Chaser