The ISIS terror group kidnapped 88 Eritrean Christians from a people-smugglers’ caravan in Libya last week, a U.S. defense official confirmed Monday. The defense official
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Military top brass meet in Nigeria on Boko Haram
Nigeria – Military top brass from Nigeria and surrounding countries met on Tuesday to thrash out plans to take on Boko Haram, as new Nigerian
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BOKO HARAM: Once bustling Niger border town in lockdown over Boko Haram
Diffa, Niger – A soldier in fatigues furiously pedals his bicycle through the alleyways of Diffa, puffing away after the biggest town in southeast Niger
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Nigeria Charges Banking Officials In Fraud Scandal, Days After Buhari Takes Office
Nigerian officials charged six central bank workers and 16 commercial bankers in a $40.2 million fraud scandal on Sunday, just days after the country’s new
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Facebook To Ban Religious Posts, Memes After Criticism From Atheism Groups
In a closed-door session with shareholders on Tuesday, Facebook executives wheeled out a set of new rules which, when implemented later this year, will ban
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Gambia declares colonialism, slavery as crime against humanity, genocide
The National Assembly of The Gambia Friday May 29 adopted a motion declaring colonialism and slavery as crimes against humanity and genocide during an extra-ordinary
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No exit: For female jihadis, Syria is one-way journey
FRANCE — When three British schoolgirls trundled across the Syrian border; when a pregnant 14-year-old ran away from her Alpine home for the second time;
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Ugandan woman’s agony as granddaughter ‘sold’ to Americans
KAMPALA/LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The first time Jaja, a Ugandan woman, saw her one-year-old granddaughter, she was in the arms of an American man
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Boko Haram hacks 10 to death in NE Nigeria: local official
Kano Nigeria – Boko Haram fighters hacked to death 10 people in a remote village in northeast Nigeria, a local government official told AFP. Maina
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Islamic State raises flag over citadel in Syria’s Palmyra: supporters
Islamic State fighters have raised their flag over an ancient citadel in Syria’s historic city of Palmyra, pictures posted online overnight by the group’s supporters
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Drivers jailed over Lamborghini-Ferrari race through Beijing
Two young drivers have been jailed over a “Fast & Furious” style race through the Chinese capital that ended in the destruction of two luxury
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Mohammed Morsi, Egypt’s ex-leader, sentenced to death
An Egyptian court has pronounced death sentences on ousted president Mohammed Morsi and more than 100 other people over a mass prison break in 2011.
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Abu Sayyaf, an ISIS Leader, Killed in Syria by Special Forces, U.S. Says
WASHINGTON — American Special Operations forces mounted a rare raid into eastern Syria early Saturday, killing a leader of the Islamic State and about a
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ISIS nears Syria’s ancient Palmyra, advances in Iraq
BEIRUT: Extremists from ISIS closed in on Syria’s ancient metropolis of Palmyra Friday, hours before seizing a government headquarters in the strategic Iraqi city of
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Connecticut serial killer already jailed for 2003 murder of still-missing woman: report
The man suspected of killing at least seven women and dumping them behind a New Britain strip mall is already serving time in a Connecticut
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