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Friday, June 12, 2015 - 06:32
Moroccan security officials detained and expelled two members of the London-based Amnesty International human rights group researching immigration issues in the North African kingdom on Thursday.
Friday, June 12, 2015 - 06:28
Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood was declared a "terrorist" organisation, and hundreds of people were killed. More than 40,000 people have been detained, according to Human Rights Watch, with hundreds sentenced to death in speedy mass trials.
Friday, June 12, 2015 - 06:27
An extraordinary meeting of Heads and Government of the Lake Chad Basin Commission and Benin has approved that Nigeria retains the position of the force commander in the war against Boko Haram until the end of the mission.
Friday, June 12, 2015 - 06:22
Boko Haram gunmen killed at least 43 people and burnt down three villages in northeast Nigeria, residents told AFP on Thursday, the latest in an upsurge of attacks by the Islamist militants.
Friday, June 12, 2015 - 06:18
Burundi's government said on Thursday that weeks of protests against a third term bid by the president were over, claiming that the remaining demonstrators were only being organized by journalists.
Friday, June 12, 2015 - 06:18
They call it the "mini-Pentagon" -- a white marble building in the heart of Afghanistan's capital built with U.S. funds to serve as the headquarters of a modern military more than a decade in the making.
Friday, June 12, 2015 - 06:17
International call centers have become a lifeline for thousands of Salvadorans who’ve been booted from the United States. The call center industry may as well be called Second Chance Inc.
Friday, June 12, 2015 - 05:55
A jailed Azerbaijani journalist says the country is in the "midst of a human rights crisis" as it gets set to host the first European Games.
Friday, June 12, 2015 - 05:53
An Uzbek citizen June 11 became the fifth person in New York to be charged with plotting to recruit U.S. fighters to join the Islamic State militant group.
Friday, June 12, 2015 - 05:47
With the peace process stalled and violence escalating in Ukraine, a bipartisan coalition in Congress is defying President Obama and European allies by pressing the administration to provide weapons to the embattled nation.