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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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