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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. 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... (photo: AP / Sunday Alamba) The Star
Military   Nigeria   Photos   Rebels   Wikipedia: Nigerian Sharia conflict
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. 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... (photo: AP / Efrem Lukatsky) Mail Guardian South Africa
Business   Photos   Politics   Protest   Wikipedia: Vitali Klitschko
Poverty -economy -philippines Good deeds Sat 18 May 2013
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... (photo: WN / Jelly Clam) The Daily Tribune
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. Congress says Food Security Bill would have immensely benefited the poor Sat 18 May 2013
Tweet Bhubaneshwar , May 18 (ANI): The Information and Broadcasting Minister , Manish Tewari, has blamed the opposition for the Governments inability to pass the Food... (photo: PIB of India) Newstrack India
Delhi   Food   Lawmaker   Photos   Wikipedia: Manish Tewari
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. Myanmar leader to meet Obama but stalls on reforms Sat 18 May 2013
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) / ) my SA
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. Afghanistan MPs to debate law on women's rights Sat 18 May 2013
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) BBC News
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. Venezuela's Military Enters High-Crime Slums In Attempt To Control Violence Fri 17 May 2013
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) Huffington Post
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. Granting Sanctuary, Gaining Amnesty Fri 17 May 2013
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) WorldNews.com
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. Jorge Rafaél Videla, Jailed Argentine Military Leader, Dies at 87 Fri 17 May 2013
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) The New York Times
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) GM works to wow customers; exec says repeat business target in sight Fri 17 May 2013
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) Detroit news
Automaker   Business   Detroit   Photos   Wikipedia: Mark Reuss
Pope Francis, greets the faithful during the Urbi and Orbi (to the city and to the world) blessing at the end of the Easter Mass in St. Peter's Square at the the Vatican Sunday, March 31, 2013. Pope Francis condemns global 'cult of money' Thu 16 May 2013
Pope Francis has called on world leaders to put an end to the "cult of money" and to do more to help the poor, warning that insecurity was rising in many regions of... (photo: AP / Andrew Medichini) Al Jazeera
Photos   Pope   Rome   Vatican   Wikipedia: Pope Francis
Mali offered more than €3bn in aid – with strings attached Mali offered more than €3bn in aid – with strings attached Thu 16 May 2013
EU-led conference agrees aid lifeline, but Europeans insist Mali must fulfil pledges to carry out democratic and social reforms A German soldier instructs Mali troops in... (photo: European Community / EC) The Guardian
Conference   Mali   Photos   Pledges   Wikipedia: Mali
File - A look inside Za’atri refugee camp, host to tens of thousands of Syrians displaced by conflict, near Mafraq, Jordan Jordan to host 'world's largest refugee camp' Thu 16 May 2013
Al-Zaatari refugee camp near Jordan's northern border with Syria is the second largest refugee camp in the world. On days when violence in Syria worsens, between... (photo: UN / Mark Garten) Al Jazeera
Jordan   Photos   Refugee   Syria   Wikipedia: Syrian civil war
An Afghan fireman stands next to the debris of a car at the scene where a suicide car bomber attacked a NATO convoy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, May 16, 2013. Suicide bomber targets troops in Afghanistan Thu 16 May 2013
A suicide bomber has attacked a convoy of foreign military vehicles in the Afghan capital Kabul, police have said. "A [Toyota] Corolla suicide car detonated near two... (photo: AP / Anja Niedringhaus) Al Jazeera
Afghanistan   Military   Photos   Troops   Wikipedia: War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
UN General Assembly approves Syria resolution UN General Assembly approves Syria resolution Thu 16 May 2013
The U.N. General Assembly approved an Arab-backed resolution Wednesday calling for a political transition in Syria, but more than 70 countries refused to vote "yes"... (photo: UN / Evan Schneider) Jakarta Post
Arab World   Photos   Syrian Crisis   UN   Wikipedia: Syrian conflict peace proposals
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, right, meets with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Berlin on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. Kerry confident about talks on Syria Thu 16 May 2013
Kiruna, Sweden - American Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday they believed they could pull off peace talks on... (photo: AP / dpa,Maurizio Gambarini) Independent online (SA)
Peace   Photos   Russia   Syria   Wikipedia: Syrian civil war
Congo Army Rapes Detailed in UN Report as Special Brigade Arrives Congo Army Rapes Detailed in UN Report as Special Brigade Arrives Wed 15 May 2013
By Tala Dowlatshahi The cycle of sexual violence that has been churning throughout the eastern half of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has refused to stop, despite... (photo: UN / UN) Huffington Post
Brigade   Congo   Photos   Violence   Wikipedia: Republic of the Congo
A Bangladeshi fisherman uses an anchored ropes of his boat to come on the banks of the river Kornofuli, in Chittagong, Bangladesh, Wednesday, May 15, 2013. Cyclone Threat To Bangladesh And Burma Wed 15 May 2013
Hundreds of thousands of people in Bangladesh and Burma have been ordered to move to safety to avoid a cyclone travelling towards low-lying coastal areas. The UN is... (photo: AP / A.M.Ahad) Skynews
Bangladesh   Climate   Cyclone Mahasen   Photos   Wikipedia: Cyclone Mahasen
Tourist-Tibet: Tibetan boys and girls who recently escaped from Tibet, Dharamshala, India Plan to stop sex tourism Wed 15 May 2013
South African hotels are signing up to help protect children from sex tourism and are on the lookout for suspicious guests who try to check in with underage companions.... (photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang) Independent online (SA)
Africa   Children   Hotels   Photos   Tourism   Wikipedia: South Africa
File - Palestinians mark the "Nakba", or "Catastrophe", which commemorates the expulsion and fleeing of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from British-mandate Palestine as a result of the 1948 war, in Gaza City. Palestinians mark 65th anniverary of Nakba Wed 15 May 2013
Palestinians are marking the 65th anniversary of the Nakba, when hundreds of thousands of Arabs were forced out of their homes and into exile. Sirens will be sounded for... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb) Al Jazeera
Israel   Palestine   Photos   Refugee   Wikipedia: 1948 Palestinian exodus
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