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US Tourist And Driver, Kidnapped In Uganda, Rescued After Ransom Paid
An American woman and her Ugandan driver were released unharmed five days after they were kidnapped in Uganda's Queen Elizabeth National Park, according to a military spokesman.
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"He Is Our Son": Obama Wins Hearts In Visit To Father's Native Kenya
Even for Barack Obama, who is often greeted by fervent throngs in his home country, the adulation the former president receives in his father's native Kenya is in a league of its own.
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Zimbabwe's President Narrowly Escapes Apparent Assassination Attempt
Zimbabwe's election campaign season took a worrying turn Saturday afternoon when a crude bombing at a speech delivered by President Emmerson Mnangagwa appeared to be an attempt on his life.
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Caught In Congo's Tides Of War: 40,000 Have Crossed A Lake Seeking Refuge
When Congo plunged into a vicious war two decades ago that led to an estimated 5 million deaths, the northeastern province of Ituri was one of the country's bloodiest corners.
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Sudan, The World's Last Male Northern White Rhinoceros, Has Died, Putting His Species On The Brink Of Extinction
Unable to stand, and suffering from a string of infections in his advanced age, the world's last male northern white rhino was euthanized Monday by a veterinary team in Kenya that had fought for years to save him and his dwindling species. Only two now remain his daughter, Najin, and granddaughter, Fatu,leaving in-vitro fertilization from preserve...
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Why Are The Rohingya Fleeing Myanmar?
Last week, the United Nations' top human rights official called Myanmar's ongoing military campaign against the Rohingya Muslim minority group in that country's Rakhine state "a textbook example of ethnic cleansing."
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Foreign Media Focuses On PM Modi's Trip To Myanmar Amid Rohingya Crisis
Nearly 125,000 refugees belonging to the Rohingya minority ethnic group have fled Myanmar for neighboring Bangladesh in just the past week and a half, according to local aid organizations. They have relayed testimony of indiscriminate executions, gunfire from helicopters, and a scorched-earth campaign seemingly aimed at destroying Rohingya villages...
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Zimbabwe's First Lady Allegedly Assaulted A Model Who Partied With Her Sons
After reportedly turning herself in to South African police on Tuesday over allegations that she assaulted a 20-year-old woman who was partying with her two sons, Zimbabwean first lady Grace Mugabe's whereabouts are currently unknown.
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Behind The Front Lines In The Fight To 'Annihilate' ISIS
A recurring rumble of explosions echoes off the barren, boulder-strewn slopes of the Spin Ghar mountains, each ordnance aimed wishfully at redoubts where Islamic State militants are suspected of hiding. Afghan and U.S. special forces listen in on enemy chatter, intercepting dozens of their radio channels.
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After An Attacker Targeted Muslims In London's Finsbury Park, A Local Imam May Have Saved His Life
The worshipers were attending to an elderly man who'd fallen suddenly ill after evening prayers when terror struck. A man intent on killing Muslims plowed a rented van into the group of Londoners - killing one and injuring 10 more - before jumping out and taunting them with slurs, according to witnesses.
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ISRO Launches GSLV Mk III, Its Most Muscular Rocket Yet: Foreign Media
India's space agency debuted a massive rocket on Monday, launching it from the southeastern barrier island of Sriharikota. The Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV Mk III) will function mainly as a delivery system for heavier satellites, but the Indian Space Research Organization hopes that it can one day carry a manned mission - the count...
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PM Narendra Modi Visits Berlin, 'Bursting With Friendliness': Foreign Media
Reflecting on the fraught new era of U.S. relations with Germany, and Europe at large, German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke on Sunday at a beer hall, and contended that her continent-mates "really must take our fate into our own hands."
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Somali Pirates Just Hijacked A Commercial Ship For The First Time In 5 Years
In 2010 and 2011, groups of armed Somali men were hijacking merchant vessels off Somalia's coast at an almost daily pace. Thousands of hostages of myriad nationalities were taken, and billions of dollars were lost on ransoms, damages and delayed shipments.
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Has Mount Everest Really Shrunk? India Is Going To Check: Foreign Media
According to India's surveyor-general, a school of thought has grown that Earth's highest peak, Mount Everest, has shrunk.
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India's New Bank Notes Already Being Used For Corruption: Foreign Media
On Nov. 8 - the same day American politics was upended - India's prime minister announced the sudden invalidation of all high denomination currency notes, accounting for a whopping 86 percent of the country's cash.
_625x300_17_July_18.jpg?downsize=260:195 "\"He Is Our Son\": Obama Wins Hearts In Visit To Father's Native Kenya")
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US Tourist And Driver, Kidnapped In Uganda, Rescued After Ransom Paid
An American woman and her Ugandan driver were released unharmed five days after they were kidnapped in Uganda's Queen Elizabeth National Park, according to a military spokesman.
-
"He Is Our Son": Obama Wins Hearts In Visit To Father's Native Kenya
Even for Barack Obama, who is often greeted by fervent throngs in his home country, the adulation the former president receives in his father's native Kenya is in a league of its own.
-
Zimbabwe's President Narrowly Escapes Apparent Assassination Attempt
Zimbabwe's election campaign season took a worrying turn Saturday afternoon when a crude bombing at a speech delivered by President Emmerson Mnangagwa appeared to be an attempt on his life.
-
Caught In Congo's Tides Of War: 40,000 Have Crossed A Lake Seeking Refuge
When Congo plunged into a vicious war two decades ago that led to an estimated 5 million deaths, the northeastern province of Ituri was one of the country's bloodiest corners.
-
Sudan, The World's Last Male Northern White Rhinoceros, Has Died, Putting His Species On The Brink Of Extinction
Unable to stand, and suffering from a string of infections in his advanced age, the world's last male northern white rhino was euthanized Monday by a veterinary team in Kenya that had fought for years to save him and his dwindling species. Only two now remain his daughter, Najin, and granddaughter, Fatu,leaving in-vitro fertilization from preserve...
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Why Are The Rohingya Fleeing Myanmar?
Last week, the United Nations' top human rights official called Myanmar's ongoing military campaign against the Rohingya Muslim minority group in that country's Rakhine state "a textbook example of ethnic cleansing."
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Foreign Media Focuses On PM Modi's Trip To Myanmar Amid Rohingya Crisis
Nearly 125,000 refugees belonging to the Rohingya minority ethnic group have fled Myanmar for neighboring Bangladesh in just the past week and a half, according to local aid organizations. They have relayed testimony of indiscriminate executions, gunfire from helicopters, and a scorched-earth campaign seemingly aimed at destroying Rohingya villages...
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Zimbabwe's First Lady Allegedly Assaulted A Model Who Partied With Her Sons
After reportedly turning herself in to South African police on Tuesday over allegations that she assaulted a 20-year-old woman who was partying with her two sons, Zimbabwean first lady Grace Mugabe's whereabouts are currently unknown.
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Behind The Front Lines In The Fight To 'Annihilate' ISIS
A recurring rumble of explosions echoes off the barren, boulder-strewn slopes of the Spin Ghar mountains, each ordnance aimed wishfully at redoubts where Islamic State militants are suspected of hiding. Afghan and U.S. special forces listen in on enemy chatter, intercepting dozens of their radio channels.
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After An Attacker Targeted Muslims In London's Finsbury Park, A Local Imam May Have Saved His Life
The worshipers were attending to an elderly man who'd fallen suddenly ill after evening prayers when terror struck. A man intent on killing Muslims plowed a rented van into the group of Londoners - killing one and injuring 10 more - before jumping out and taunting them with slurs, according to witnesses.
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ISRO Launches GSLV Mk III, Its Most Muscular Rocket Yet: Foreign Media
India's space agency debuted a massive rocket on Monday, launching it from the southeastern barrier island of Sriharikota. The Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV Mk III) will function mainly as a delivery system for heavier satellites, but the Indian Space Research Organization hopes that it can one day carry a manned mission - the count...
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PM Narendra Modi Visits Berlin, 'Bursting With Friendliness': Foreign Media
Reflecting on the fraught new era of U.S. relations with Germany, and Europe at large, German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke on Sunday at a beer hall, and contended that her continent-mates "really must take our fate into our own hands."
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Somali Pirates Just Hijacked A Commercial Ship For The First Time In 5 Years
In 2010 and 2011, groups of armed Somali men were hijacking merchant vessels off Somalia's coast at an almost daily pace. Thousands of hostages of myriad nationalities were taken, and billions of dollars were lost on ransoms, damages and delayed shipments.
-
Has Mount Everest Really Shrunk? India Is Going To Check: Foreign Media
According to India's surveyor-general, a school of thought has grown that Earth's highest peak, Mount Everest, has shrunk.
-
India's New Bank Notes Already Being Used For Corruption: Foreign Media
On Nov. 8 - the same day American politics was upended - India's prime minister announced the sudden invalidation of all high denomination currency notes, accounting for a whopping 86 percent of the country's cash.
