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Hong Kong Riot Police Clear Protest Site, Arrest Student Leaders

Protesters have been occupying segments of roads, blocking traffic, in the city’s Admiralty district near government offices and Causeway Bay, a major shopping area.

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Hong Kong police on Wednesday cleared one of the largest protest sites that has choked the city for months, arresting scores of pro-democracy activists in what could be a turning point in the fight to wrest greater political freedom from Beijing's control. Riot police clashed with protesters late into the evening as activists sought to regroup

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Suicide Blast Kills 23 In Nigeria While Prison Attack Frees 144 Inmates

President Goodluck Jonathan, who is seeking a second term in elections in February, has faced rising criticism at home and abroad for failing to halt the Boko Haram insurgency.

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A suicide bomber killed at least 23 people in a procession of Shia Muslims marking the ritual of Ashoura in northeast Nigeria's Yobe state on Monday, witnesses said. In a separate incident overnight in central Kogi state, gunmen using explosives blew their way into a prison in the city of Lokoja, killing one person and freeing 144 inmates, Adams

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Iraqi Kurds Head To Kobani To Join The Raging Battle Against ISIS

In Iraq, security forces said they had advanced to within 1.2 miles of the city of Baiji on Wednesday in a new offensive to retake the country’s biggest oil refinery that has been besieged by IS.

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Iraqi peshmerga fighters arrived in southeastern Turkey on Wednesday en route for the Syrian town of Kobani to try to help fellow Kurds break an Islamic State siege which has defied US-led airstrikes. Kobani, nestled on the border with Turkey, has been under assault from Islamic State militants for more than a month and its fate has become a key

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US Isolates Troops While Australia Imposes Visa Ban On Ebola-Hit West Africa States

‘Western countries are creating mass panic which is unhelpful in containing a contagious disease like Ebola,’ Ugandan government spokesman Ofwono Opondo said.

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The US military has started isolating soldiers returning from an Ebola response mission in West Africa and Australia became the first rich nation to impose a visa ban on the affected countries amid global anxiety about the spread of the virus. The latest measures, along with decisions by some US states to impose mandatory quarantines on health

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Outraged By Rape And Inequality, Indian Women Seek Justice Through Entrepreneurship

Women-led startups are on the rise, but getting a loan means posting a man’s assets as collateral.

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BANGALORE — In India, women are frequently mistreated, rape is so prevalent that tourists are scared to go, and female victims fear reporting violent crimes. That’s the country’s reputation, at least — particularly since the horrific December 2012 gang rape that took the life of a young woman. But now, thousands of Indian women are fighting

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Turkey Has Stepped In To Help Gazans Where Arab Countries Didn’t

Turkey has stepped in to help Gazans where Arab countries didn’t.

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ANKARA, Turkey — Even before Nael Salamah introduces himself, he hurriedly whispers in Arabic, “Don’t tell her anything about what has happened, she doesn’t know our mom and brothers are dead.” He’s talking about his 14-year-old sister, Ahid, who has been in a hospital in Turkey’s capital, Ankara, for two weeks. As a symbol of good will toward

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‘Bomb Gaza’ Is Just One Of Several Disturbing Israeli Video Games For Your Smartphone

Do you wake up every morning to check the Gaza death toll and kind of wish you were flying a jet or controlling a drone and blasting Gaza to rubble?

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Do you wake up every morning to check the Gaza death toll and kind of wish you were flying a jet or controlling a drone and blasting Gaza to rubble? Or, alternatively, do you imagine firing thousands of rockets into Israel? If you answered yes to either of these questions, boy, have we got some video games for you. Reasonable folks have

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