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In Central African Republic, Muslims Who Stray Outside The Safe Haven Risk Death

In Central African Republic, those who were once friends now don’t hesitate to shoot each other.

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BANGUI, Central African Republic — For the Muslims living in the Central African Republic’s besieged PK12 neighborhood, the boundaries are clear. Don’t go past the French troops guarding the road to the south, nor too far up the main road heading north. Danger lurks behind the wrecked houses to the east — there’s about nine meters of safety

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Lebanon’s Syrian Refugees: ‘An entire Generation Is Growing Up With PTSD’

Refugees are a daily fact of life in Lebanon. They are middle class people with nowhere else to go. There is nothing they can do but wait.

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BERUIT — Refugees are everywhere on the streets of downtown Beirut. Women and children in filthy clothes beg for money on nearly every street corner. Countless young boys tote shoeshine kits, persistently following foreigners and wealthy Lebanese who pass by. "Min Sooriya" they say, meaning “from Syria.” As if there was any doubt. Refugees

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The 6 Deadliest Places In The World To Be An Environmentalist

A new report spells out in grisly detail the price some environmentalists pay for their work. At least 908 environmental activists have been killed in the last decade, according to the London-based NGO, Global Witness. It’s the first such survey of its kind. The death toll in the 35 countries analyzed is likely even higher since […]

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A new report spells out in grisly detail the price some environmentalists pay for their work. At least 908 environmental activists have been killed in the last decade, according to the London-based NGO, Global Witness. It's the first such survey of its kind. The death toll in the 35 countries analyzed is likely even higher since field

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Nearly 300 People Are Missing After A Ferry Capsizes Off South Korea

Most of the passengers on board the ferry appeared to have been teenagers and their teachers from a high school in Seoul.

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South Korea Ship Sinking

Almost 300 people were missing after a ferry capsized off South Korea on Wednesday, despite frantic rescue efforts involving coastguard vessels, fishing boats and helicopters, in what could be the country's biggest maritime disaster in over 20 years. The ferry was carrying 459 people, of whom 164 have been rescued, coastguard officials

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Will A New Deal Solve Mexico’s Crime Problem?

Mexico’s militia leaders and government have made a breakthrough. Here’s what their new pact means.

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  MEXICO CITY — The rise of thousands of vigilantes bearing assault rifles to rout a drug cartel in western Mexico’s Michoacan state has presented the administration of President Enrique Peña Nieto with a policy nightmare. Attacking the vigilantes is unpopular and morally questionable. But tolerating these gun-wielding militias, who

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India Election: ‘Idealistic Banker’ Represents Anti-corruption Aam Aadmi Party

Meera Sanyal, former CEO of the Royal Bank of Scotland, is contesting for parliament as part of the Aam Aadmi Party, a rising but unproven contender.

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Meera Sanyal

MUMBAI — Meera Sanyal came looking for a fight. A parliamentary candidate for the Mumbai South constituency and former bank CEO, Sanyal said she hoped to square off in a debate with her opponent, incumbent Milind Deora from the ruling Indian National Congress. So she dropped her campaign plans and rushed to Mumbai's iconic Express Towers where

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A Plan To Revolutionize The Horn Of Africa — Starting With 5,000 Animal Skins

Stabilizing one of the most dangerous regions in the world from the ground up

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Somaliland

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Len Tiahlo vividly recalls a flight he took more than a decade ago that had to make an emergency landing on a dirt strip serving as a runway outside the tiny enclave of Jijiga in eastern Ethiopia. A lone shack sat next to the runway amid the scrub; there was nowhere else to go. Tiahlo and his fellow passengers spent the

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