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Nigeria gun battle was joint assault with Chad, Niger -officials
ReutersABUJA, April 23 (Reuters) - A gun battle in a Nigerian border town that looked likely to have killed dozens last week involved forces from neighbouring Chad and Niger, who were surprised by the firepower they faced there, officials said on Tuesday. The...Tags: Niger, American Red Cross, Butterfly Ballots, Chad
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Iran's wooing of Africa yields scant results as sanctions bite
Reuters* Visits, pledges of deals mark Ahmadinejad's Africa policy * Ties fail to deliver votes for Iran at UN Security Council * Sanctions on nuclear activity cut African trade with Iran By David Lewis DAKAR, April 23 (Reuters) - Before Iranian President...Tags: Niger, Islam, Senegal, Religion and Belief, Tehran (Iran)
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Nigeria officials disagree on death toll in recent fighting
KANO, Nigeria — Local government officials and a military spokesman in Nigeria agreed that security forces and Islamist militants had battled in recent days in the country's far northeast. But they offered widely varying accounts Monday of how...
Tags: Goodluck Jonathan, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Government, Butterfly Ballots, Human Rights
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Brent slips towards $100 as China PMI disappoints
Reuters* China HSBC flash PMI eases, points to tepid Q2 recovery * Saudi Arabia, UAE to keep output steady in Q2 -sources * Coming up: API weekly oil stocks at 2030 GMT By Florence Tan SINGAPORE, April 23 (Reuters) - Brent crude slipped towards $100 a barrel...Tags: Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Petroleum Industry, Saudi Arabia, China, HSBC Holdings plc
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Des Plaines church helps give new life to discarded items
Unity Northwest Church believes that things discarded by one person can be used by another, so it's staging a "Circulation Day" event Saturday where no money will change hands.. The event is inspired by events that took place in Unity churches in...
Tags: Religion and Belief
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Dozens killed in gun battles in northern Nigeria
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Dozens of people, including many civilians, died in gun battles between Nigerian security forces and Islamist militants in recent days, according to Nigerian officials. However, reports of the number of casualties varied,...Tags: Goodluck Jonathan, Human Rights Watch, Unrest, Conflicts and War, United Nations, Armed Conflicts
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French family freed after being held hostage in Nigeria
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- A family of French tourists, including four children, held hostage by an Islamist militia in northern Nigeria has been freed, according the French and Cameroonian officials. Tanguy Moulin-Fournier, his wife Albane,...
Tags: Goodluck Jonathan, Francois Hollande, France, Cameroon
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Justices rule U.S. courts not world forum for human rights suits
WASHINGTON— U.S. courts will not be the world forum for lawsuits brought by victims of human rights abuses abroad who seek damages from multinational corporations or deposed tyrants, the Supreme Court declared Wednesday. In a decision welcomed...
Tags: Justice System, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Laws, John G. Roberts, Jr., Philippines
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France says it won't negotiate to free kidnapped family
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- The stakes are high for France: the lives of four French children, their parents, a relative and nine other French hostages being held by Al Qaeda-linked militants in Nigeria and Mali. But France, entrenched in a war in...
Tags: Entertainment, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Radio, Niger, Al-Qaeda
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Ind. churches struggling with shortage of priests
LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — The Rev. Bob Klemme is a priest at two north-central Roman Catholic parishes 10 miles apart, celebrating 10 Masses each week in addition to any funerals and weddings that occur. "I keep busy," he said. "I get by. I don't...Tags: Christianity, Religion and Belief, Roman Catholicism, Mexico
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Chinua Achebe dies at 82; Nigerian writer
JOHNANNESBURG, South Africa — When Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe was in college, a European professor assigned "Mister Johnson," which portrayed Africa as a land of grinning, shrieking savages. Time magazine called it "the best novel ever written...
Tags: Nobel Prize Awards, Goodluck Jonathan, Customs and Tradition, Nelson Mandela, Government
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Chinua Achebe, author of 'Things Fall Apart,' dies at 82
Nigerian-born author Chinua Achebe has died. The 82-year-old was best known for his gorgeously written historical novel that served as an indictment of colonialism, "Things Fall Apart." Published in 1958, "Things Fall Apart" soon became an international...
Tags: Google+, Literature, Chinua Achebe, University of Cambridge, England
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