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The United States offered Niger two military surveillance planes Wednesday as attacks by suspected Boko Haram extremists continued in the country's south-east region bordering Nigeria.

Officials in Paraguay have opened a criminal investigation into former President Federico Franco, raising the possibility that Paraguay could follow the path recently taken by other Latin American countries and attempt to take down a previously untouchable prominent figure.

A day after defeating Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Trudeau told President Obama by phone that he would make good on a campaign promise to withdraw Canada’s jets from the U.S.-led bombing campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.

In a bid to capitalize on some recent battle successes in Iraq, Baghdad leaders told a top U.S. general Tuesday that they will move to improve coordination between the country's disparate and sometimes warring factions battling Islamic State militants.