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In this Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011 photo, a police officer armed with an AK-47 rifle walks past pedestrians as he patrols a major road in Maiduguri, Nigeria. The radical sect Boko Haram, which in August 2011 bombed the United Nations headquarters in Nigeria, is the gravest security threat to Africa's most populous nation.
Military   Nigeria   Photos   Rebels   Wikipedia: Nigerian Sharia conflict		  The Star 
Nigeria says 10 rebels killed in northeast, 65 arrested
Sat 18 May 2013
LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria's military said on Saturday it had killed 10 insurgents and arrested 65 more as part of an offensive meant to wrest back control of parts of its remote northeast from an... (photo: AP / Sunday Alamba)
Lawmaker and chairman of the Ukrainian opposition party Udar (Punch), and WBC Heavyweight Champion boxer Vitali Klitschko, center, attends a rally in central Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, April 7, 2013. Ukraine's president on Sunday pardoned former Ukrainian Interior Affairs Minister Yuri Lutsenko, 48, a close ally of imprisoned former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, moving toward fulfilling a key demand on Kiev's path to integrate closer with the European Union.
Business   Photos   Politics   Protest   Wikipedia: Vitali Klitschko		  Mail Guardian South Africa 
Klitschko leads 15 000 protesters demanding release of ex-PM
Sat 18 May 2013
Vitali Klitschko (left). (AFP) More Coverage The demonstrators on Saturday chanted "Freedom for Yulia" and waved the flags of the three main parties opposed to former prime minister Yulia... (photo: AP / Efrem Lukatsky)
Poverty -economy -philippines  The Daily Tribune  Sat 18 May 2013
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Promoting healthcare for Palawan’s poor Palawan is home to more than half a million Filipinos living in poverty and malnutrition. The island has the highest fertility rate in the Philippines, yet it... (photo: WN / Jelly Clam)
Economy   Home   Philippines   Photos   Poverty   Wikipedia: Philippines
The Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Information & Broadcasting, Shri Manish Tewari addressing at the convocation of Ramagarhia Girls College, at Ludhiana on March 09, 2013.  Newstrack India  Sat 18 May 2013
Congress says Food Security Bill would have immensely benefited the poor
Tweet Bhubaneshwar , May 18 (ANI): The Information and Broadcasting Minister , Manish Tewari, has blamed the opposition for the Governments inability to pass the Food Security Bill, which would have... (photo: PIB of India)
Delhi   Food   Lawmaker   Photos   Wikipedia: Manish Tewari
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Myanmar Prime Minister Thein Sein attends the ASEAN meeting with Southeast Asian business leaders during the 13th ASEAN Summit in Singapore on Tuesday November 20, 2007. my SA Sat 18 May 2013
Myanmar leader to meet Obama but stalls on reforms
WASHINGTON (AP) — Myanmar President Thein Sein's historic White House visit next week is the culmination of U.S. outreach to a former pariah regime. That's been based on... (photo: (AP Photo/Romeo GACAD, POOL) / )
Myanmar   Politics   USA   Wikipedia: Thein Sein   Photos
Afghan women are seen during an election campaign in support of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who is also a presidential candidate in the up coming presidential election, in Bamiyan province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 16, 2009. BBC News Sat 18 May 2013
Afghanistan MPs to debate law on women's rights
Afghan MPs are to debate a law to prevent violence against women, amid a fierce argument between leading Afghan women over tactics. A law banning violence against women,... (photo: AP / Musadeq Sadeq)
Afghanistan   Parliament   Photos   Wikipedia: War in Afghanistan (2001–present)   Women
Venezuelans National Guard soldiers stand guard outside a military arms depot after a fire in Maracay, Venezuela, Sunday, Jan. 30, 2011. A fire set off a series of explosions at a military arms depot, killing at least one person and leading authorities to evacuate about 10,000 people from the area. Huffington Post Fri 17 May 2013
Venezuela's Military Enters High-Crime Slums In Attempt To Control Violence
PETARE, Venezuela — Stern-looking soldiers clutching assault rifles wave down the beat-up Chevy Caprice entering this sprawling slum on the outskirts of Caracas.... (photo: AP / Ariana Cubillos)
Crimes   Military   Photos   Venezuela   Wikipedia: National Armed Forces of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
File - A detainee prepares for the mid-day meal at Joint Task Force (JTF) Guantanamo. WorldNews.com Fri 17 May 2013
Granting Sanctuary, Gaining Amnesty
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling "I am flying on the wings of thought...And so, even in this cage, I know a greater freedom."(1) -Shaikh Abdurraheem Muslim... (photo: US Navy / MCS3 Joshua Nistas)
Guantanamo   Human Rights   Photos   US   Wikipedia: Guantanamo Bay detention camp
Argentina's former dictator Jorge Rafael Videla attends his trial in Cordoba, Argentina, Thursday July 22, 2010. Videla, along with others, is on trial for the alleged murders of 31 political prisoners who were allegedly pulled from their jail cells shortly after the 1976 military coup and shot while trying to escape. The New York Times Fri 17 May 2013
Jorge Rafaél Videla, Jailed Argentine Military Leader, Dies at 87
Jorge Rafaél Videla, the military junta leader who oversaw a ruthless campaign of political killings and forced disappearances during Argentina’s so-called Dirty War... (photo: AP / Natacha Pisarenko)
Argentina   Buenos Aires   Jorge Videla   Photos   Wikipedia: Jorge Rafael Videla
Mark Reuss, General Motors North America President, speaks at the debut of the 2014 GMC Sierra and Chevrolet Silverado in Pontiac, Mich., Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya) Detroit news Fri 17 May 2013
GM works to wow customers; exec says repeat business target in sight
By Melissa Burden The Detroit News Comments Reuss ) In 2011, General Motors Co. North America President Mark Reuss announced a bold goal: He wanted the automaker to have... (photo: AP / Paul Sancya)
Automaker   Business   Detroit   Photos   Wikipedia: Mark Reuss


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In this file photo taken, Monday, Jan. 30, 2012 file photo, Nigeria secret service officers stand guard, during a court hearing in Lagos, Nigeria. Nigeria Imposes Curfew in Military Campaign Voa News
Pakistani supporters of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif hangs a poster with his image, next to his residence in Lahore, Pakistan, Saturday, March 14, 2009. Pakistan's government put the army on alert ahead of planned opposition protests in the capital, the military said Saturday, as the U.S. called for talks to end a crisis endangering the country's efforts against Islamist extremism Afghans are wary of Nawaz Sharif - but should they be? BBC News
A Pakistani man who was injured in a suicide bombing is rushed by volunteers to a hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, Friday, Feb. 1, 2013. Mosque Bombings in Pakistan Kill at Least 13 The New York Times
Idaho man in court for Uzbekistan terrorism plot The Associated Press
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Russian President Vladimir Putin gives state medals at an award ceremony in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012. US scolds Russia for sending arms to Syria Al Jazeera
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