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Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - 06:55
Widespread violence has forced more than 71,000 people to flee their homes in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Katanga region in the past three months alone, the United Nations warned.
Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - 06:53
Global Slavery Index study says Mauritania is biggest offender while India has the highest number of modern-day slaves.
Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - 06:46
Gunmen shot dead a journalist in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland, the third killed in Somalia this year, a colleague and the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) said.
Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - 06:45
Michel Kafando was sworn in as transitional president of Burkina Faso on Tuesday, faced with the task of leading the West African country to elections in a year following a brief military takeover.
Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - 06:45
The police said they arrested two suspects Tuesday in the disappearance last Thursday of Miss Honduras, María José Alvarado, 19, and her sister Sofía, 23.
Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - 06:43
“When my husband went into prison I was 38-years-old. I’m now 58,” says Holbika Juraeva. Through tears, she says she fears he will never be released alive. Juraeva’s husband, Murod Juraev, was an opposition MP in Uzbekistan in the early 1990s. He has been in prison since 1994 for expressing opposition to the policies of the man who remains president today, Islam Karimov.
Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - 06:41
Reinaldo Menéndez threw himself into his grandmother’s outstretched arms, relieved to be back on Salvadorian soil after an unsuccessful attempt to reach the United States.
Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - 06:41
The Pentagon is accelerating plans to train and equip vetted Syrian rebel groups against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), according to the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee
Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - 06:40
The Libyan city of Derna has a population of 100,000, and it’s now under the Islamic State group’s control.
Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - 06:39
Nino Burjanadze, the leader of non-parliamentary opposition Democratic Movement-United Georgia party, said that Russia-proposed new treaty with breakaway Abkhazia was Moscow’s reaction to Tbilisi’s endless talk of NATO training center in Georgia and the country should now decide between “illusionary NATO membership” and restoration of territorial integrity.