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"Expelled By Violence, Poverty": Thousands Of Migrants March To Reach US
The caravan of migrants from Central America grew to roughly 5,000 on Sunday, a massive group that stretched across this city's main highway for more than a half-mile.
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Cyril Ramaphosa Elected South Africa's New President
Cyril Ramaphosa was elected by a majority in parliament as South Africa's president on Thursday, marking a turning point for the country after the slow-motion collapse of the once-legendary ruling party under Jacob Zuma.
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Zuma Resigns As South Africa's President, Ending Standoff With Ruling Party
South Africa's embattled president, Jacob Zuma, resigned on Wednesday, putting an end to a period of scandal and mismanagement that threatened to destroy the party of Nelson Mandela.
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"A Death Sentence": Donald Trump's Security Restrictions Leave Sick Refugees At Risk
The doctors told Timiro Hassan that her daughter could survive. The kidney cancer could be treated. Even though the United Nations couldn't pay for it, even though the chemotherapy wasn't available here, there was one option that for decades had saved the lives of Somali refugees in need of medical care. Five-year-old Nimo Salan could be resettled ...
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They Were Rescued From War. Now South Sudan's Child Soldiers Are Going Back.
Outside, the young men with guns were playing dominoes and drinking tea. Babacho Mama could hear them through the sheet-metal walls of his room.
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Boko Haram Kidnapped 276 Girls Two Years Ago. What Happened To Them?
Two years ago Thursday, just before midnight on a sweltering night in a town in northeastern Nigeria, men carrying AK-47s stormed into the Chibok Government Secondary School.
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They Were Freed From Boko Haram's Rape Camps. But Their Nightmare Isn't Over
For months, they were kept in tiny thatched huts in the middle of the forest, waiting with dread each evening for their rapists to return. During the almost intolerable violence, the young women's minds drifted to escape or death. The victims were as young as 8.
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Rangers Killed One Of Kenya's Most Famous Lions Because They Were Out Of Tranquilizers
Mohawk the lion, one of Kenya's most famous big cats, was fatally shot Wednesday by wildlife rangers. In a country that has invested millions in protecting its wildlife, Kenyans are trying to figure out what went wrong.
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'Sometimes When I'm Alone With My Baby, I Think About Killing Him. He Reminds Me Of The Man Who Raped Me.'
The neighborhood is a patchwork of low-slung buildings scorched and looted at the height of the civil war, a place where the United Nations was supposed to come to the rescue. But in a number of homes, women and girls are raising babies they say are the children of UN troops who abused or exploited them.
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China's Slowdown, Financial Mayhem Cast Long Shadow Across World
China's economic slowdown and financial mayhem are fostering a cycle of decline and panic across much of the world, as countries on nearly every continent see escalating risks of prolonged slumps, political disruption and financial losses.
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UN Says Some Of Its Peacekeepers Were Paying 13-Year-Olds For Sex
The United Nations has been grappling with so many sexual abuse allegations involving its peacekeepers that Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon recently called them "a cancer in our system."
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The Grim Task of Identifying the Migrants Who Don't Reach Europe
Ibrahim al-Attoushi was looking for another body. Nearly every day, the dead washed ashore on this remote stretch of beach, migrants whose boats had capsized on their way to Europe. This morning there had been a report of one more.
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Meet The Libyan Coast Guard: Few Ships, No Lights, Little Hope of Stopping Migrants
We sped through the Mediterranean in the Libyan coast guard's tiny gray skiff, rocked by the small swells that marked the end of summer.
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A Libyan Militia Takes on the Refugee Crisis and Wins - For Now
The dead were laid in rows on the beach so they could be counted. A dozen bodies soon became a hundred. Somewhere off the coast, the dilapidated fishing boat was still bobbing, half-submerged. There would be more victims.
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Prosecutors Say This 66-Year-Old Chinese Woman is One of Africa's Most Notorious Smugglers
They call her the Queen of Ivory - a 66-year-old Chinese woman who became famous for her role in Africa's illegal wildlife trade.
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"Expelled By Violence, Poverty": Thousands Of Migrants March To Reach US
The caravan of migrants from Central America grew to roughly 5,000 on Sunday, a massive group that stretched across this city's main highway for more than a half-mile.
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Cyril Ramaphosa Elected South Africa's New President
Cyril Ramaphosa was elected by a majority in parliament as South Africa's president on Thursday, marking a turning point for the country after the slow-motion collapse of the once-legendary ruling party under Jacob Zuma.
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Zuma Resigns As South Africa's President, Ending Standoff With Ruling Party
South Africa's embattled president, Jacob Zuma, resigned on Wednesday, putting an end to a period of scandal and mismanagement that threatened to destroy the party of Nelson Mandela.
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"A Death Sentence": Donald Trump's Security Restrictions Leave Sick Refugees At Risk
The doctors told Timiro Hassan that her daughter could survive. The kidney cancer could be treated. Even though the United Nations couldn't pay for it, even though the chemotherapy wasn't available here, there was one option that for decades had saved the lives of Somali refugees in need of medical care. Five-year-old Nimo Salan could be resettled ...
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They Were Rescued From War. Now South Sudan's Child Soldiers Are Going Back.
Outside, the young men with guns were playing dominoes and drinking tea. Babacho Mama could hear them through the sheet-metal walls of his room.
-
Boko Haram Kidnapped 276 Girls Two Years Ago. What Happened To Them?
Two years ago Thursday, just before midnight on a sweltering night in a town in northeastern Nigeria, men carrying AK-47s stormed into the Chibok Government Secondary School.
-
They Were Freed From Boko Haram's Rape Camps. But Their Nightmare Isn't Over
For months, they were kept in tiny thatched huts in the middle of the forest, waiting with dread each evening for their rapists to return. During the almost intolerable violence, the young women's minds drifted to escape or death. The victims were as young as 8.
-
Rangers Killed One Of Kenya's Most Famous Lions Because They Were Out Of Tranquilizers
Mohawk the lion, one of Kenya's most famous big cats, was fatally shot Wednesday by wildlife rangers. In a country that has invested millions in protecting its wildlife, Kenyans are trying to figure out what went wrong.
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'Sometimes When I'm Alone With My Baby, I Think About Killing Him. He Reminds Me Of The Man Who Raped Me.'
The neighborhood is a patchwork of low-slung buildings scorched and looted at the height of the civil war, a place where the United Nations was supposed to come to the rescue. But in a number of homes, women and girls are raising babies they say are the children of UN troops who abused or exploited them.
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China's Slowdown, Financial Mayhem Cast Long Shadow Across World
China's economic slowdown and financial mayhem are fostering a cycle of decline and panic across much of the world, as countries on nearly every continent see escalating risks of prolonged slumps, political disruption and financial losses.
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UN Says Some Of Its Peacekeepers Were Paying 13-Year-Olds For Sex
The United Nations has been grappling with so many sexual abuse allegations involving its peacekeepers that Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon recently called them "a cancer in our system."
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The Grim Task of Identifying the Migrants Who Don't Reach Europe
Ibrahim al-Attoushi was looking for another body. Nearly every day, the dead washed ashore on this remote stretch of beach, migrants whose boats had capsized on their way to Europe. This morning there had been a report of one more.
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Meet The Libyan Coast Guard: Few Ships, No Lights, Little Hope of Stopping Migrants
We sped through the Mediterranean in the Libyan coast guard's tiny gray skiff, rocked by the small swells that marked the end of summer.
-
A Libyan Militia Takes on the Refugee Crisis and Wins - For Now
The dead were laid in rows on the beach so they could be counted. A dozen bodies soon became a hundred. Somewhere off the coast, the dilapidated fishing boat was still bobbing, half-submerged. There would be more victims.
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Prosecutors Say This 66-Year-Old Chinese Woman is One of Africa's Most Notorious Smugglers
They call her the Queen of Ivory - a 66-year-old Chinese woman who became famous for her role in Africa's illegal wildlife trade.
