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Nigeria offers amnesty to insurgents who surrender
ReutersMAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria offered an amnesty on Sunday to Islamist militants who surrender and said 17 people had been killed on the fifth day of a military operation to try to crush the Boko Haram insurgency in the northeast. In their...Tags: Civil Rights, Rebellions, Goodluck Jonathan, Africa, International Organizations
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'Britain's Obama' urges stronger economic ties with West Africa
Associated PressACCRA, Ghana (AP) — A rising star in Britain's Labour Party, described by some as the "British Barack Obama," Chuka Umunna urged the United Kingdom to more aggressively forge ties with West Africa's fast-growing economies. During a trade mission to...Tags: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., Africa, Barack Obama, Labour Party (UK), David Cameron
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Nigeria military says 10 insurgents killed, 65 arrested
ReutersLAGOS, May 18 (Reuters) - Nigeria's military said on Saturday it had killed 10 insurgents and arrested 65 as part of an offensive meant to wrest back control of parts of its remote northeast from an Islamist group seen as the main security threat to...Tags: Rebellions, Goodluck Jonathan, Petroleum Industry
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Nigeria says 10 rebels killed in northeast, 65 arrested
ReutersLAGOS (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 Islamist group seen as the main security threat to Africa's...Tags: Civil Rights, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Religion and Belief, Religious Conflicts, Armed Conflicts
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Reuters World News Highlights at 2200 GMT, May 17
ReutersMay 17 (Reuters) - TOP STORIES ----------- WASHINGTON - The outgoing head of the Internal Revenue Service provided little help on Friday to lawmakers investigating who at the tax-collection agency was responsible for targeting conservative groups for...Tags: Moscow (Russia), Kabul (Afghanistan), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Religion and Belief, Russia
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Reuters World News Highlights at 1400 GMT, May 17
ReutersLONDON, May 17 (Reuters) - TOP STORIES ----------- BAGHDAD - At least 32 people were killed in two explosions outside a Sunni Muslim mosque in Baquba, about 50 km (30 miles) northeast of Baghdad, after Friday prayers, police and medics said. - - - -...Tags: Internal Revenue Service, U.S. House of Representatives, Moscow (Russia), Amazon.com Inc., Kabul (Afghanistan)
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Nigeria launches airstrikes against Islamist militants
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Security forces in Nigeria have launched airstrikes against encampments of the Islamist militia Boko Haram as part of a major military operation in the country's northeast, military officials said Friday. The airstrikes hit...
Tags: Goodluck Jonathan, Human Rights Watch, U.S. Department of State, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Islam
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Reuters World News Highlights at 1230 GMT, May 16
ReutersMay 16 (Reuters) - KABUL - A suicide bomber in a car attacked a convoy of foreign troops in Kabul on Thursday, killing at least 15 people including six Americans, in one of the worst attacks in the Afghan capital in months. - - - - UNITED NATIONS -...Tags: Goodluck Jonathan, Barack Obama, Elections, Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace
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Reuters World News Highlights at 1715 GMT, May 15
ReutersWASHINGTON - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner raised the possibility of jail time on Wednesday for law violations in the growing scandal involving the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups for extra tax scrutiny. -...Tags: U.S. House of Representatives, Goodluck Jonathan, European Union, Government, David Cameron
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Reuters World News Highlights at 2045 GMT, May 15
ReutersMay 15 (Reuters) - WASHINGTON - As Republican lawmakers stepped up their calls for top Internal Revenue Service officials to resign, President Barack Obama planned to meet with Treasury to discuss how to respond to the growing uproar over the IRS's...Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Goodluck Jonathan, Barack Obama, Consumer Goods Industries
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Troops sweep into northeast Nigeria cities
ReutersMAIDUGURI/YOLA, Nigeria, May 15 - Nigerian troops moved into cities in the northeast on Wednesday, after President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency there in response to an Islamist insurgency. Residents and Reuters journalists saw army... -
Nigeria's military starts campaign to flush out Islamists
ReutersLAGOS, May 15 (Reuters) - Nigeria launched a campaign on Wednesday to flush Islamist militants out of bases in its border areas a day after President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in the northeast. "The operations, which will involve...Tags: Goodluck Jonathan
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