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Arab Spring, American summer: Foreign students visit Michiana, tell their stories
South Bend Tribune Staff WriterSOUTH BEND -- Menna, 20, paid no attention to politics until the Egyptian revolution started on Jan. 25, 2011. "We never imagined the president would be overthrown," said the young medical student, who lives in Sohag, a city about 240 miles from Cairo,...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Media Industry, Political Systems, Politics, Health
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President Obama strongly defends U.S. military action in Libya
AP White House CorrespondentWASHINGTON (AP) — Defending the first war launched on his watch, President Barack Obama declared Monday night that the United States intervened in Libya to prevent a slaughter of civilians that would have stained the world's conscience and "been a...Tags: Politics, National Security, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Elections
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Algerian jihadi mastermind claims Niger suicide attacks
ReutersNIAMEY (Reuters) - French special forces and Niger troops shot dead on Friday the last two Islamists involved in a twin attack on a military base and a French uranium mine in Niger, which was claimed by the mastermind of January's mass hostage-taking in...Tags: Computer Crime, Mali, Jihad, Niger, Suicide
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Group linked to Algeria gas plant attack claims Niger raids
ReutersABIDJAN, May 24 (Reuters) - An al Qaeda-linked group that carried out the raid on the In Amenas gas plant in Algeria in January has claimed to have participated in Thursday's attacks in Niger. A statement posted on the internet on Friday was signed by...Tags: Computer Crime, Mali, Jihad, Al-Qaeda, Niger
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EU approves sending border security advisers to Libya
ReutersBRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union governments approved a mission on Wednesday to help Libya improve its border security in response to concerns that Islamist militants and weapons move freely across the North African country's frontier. The 110-...Tags: Politics, Mali, Niger, Libya, Africa
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ANALYSIS-Crackdown on radical Islamists tests Tunisia's stability
Reuters* Moderate Islamist-led government cracks down on Salafists * Rupture raises risk of fuelling armed radicals in N.Africa * Main Salafist group rejects state, shuns elections * Secular Tunisians fear for freedom, stability By Tarek Amara TUNIS, May 23...Tags: Islam, Politics, Feminism, Labor Legislation, Libya
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Analysis: Crackdown on radical Islamists tests Tunisia's stability
ReutersTUNIS (Reuters) - For the first time since the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011, relations between mainstream Islamists in government and radical Salafist Muslim activists have reached breaking point, sparking deadly clashes in two Tunisian cities. The...Tags: Islam, Politics, Feminism, Labor Legislation, Libya
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Subsidy reform dispute imperils Morocco's ruling coalition
ReutersRABAT (Reuters) - Morocco's junior government party is threatening to quit the coalition unless Islamist prime minister Abdelilah Benkirane moderates plans for sweeping cuts to subsidies on food and energy. Increased subsidies have been part of Morocco's...Tags: Morocco, International Monetary Fund, National Government, Politics, Political Dissent
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Libya war weapons may be killing central Africa elephants : UN
ReutersUNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Armed groups in central Africa are using powerful weapons, some of which may be left over from the civil war in Libya, to kill elephants for their ivory, the United Nations said on Monday. In a report to the U.N. Security...Tags: Butterfly Ballots, Politics, Central African Republic, Libya, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present )
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INSIGHT-Nigeria's Islamists staging bolder, deadlier comeback
Reuters* Boko Haram controls territory around Lake Chad * Attacks getting more sophisticated and deadly * Fighters regroup after military crackdown By Tim Cocks BAGA, Nigeria, May 13 (Reuters) - After a crackdown pushed them out of Nigeria's northern cities,...Tags: Islam, Butterfly Ballots, Goodluck Jonathan, Politics, Rebellions
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WRAPUP 1-Mexico industrial output plummets, cenbank worried on growth
Reuters* Industrial output plummets 4.9 percent compared to last year * Fall is largest annual decline since October 2009 * Central bank sees downside growth risks By Alexandra Alper and Michael O'Boyle MEXICO CITY, May 10 (Reuters) - Mexican industrial...Tags: Central Bank, Mexico, Productivity, Industrial Production, Money and Monetary Policy
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ACTUALIZA 2-Inflación de México se acelera más en abril, efecto es transitorio
Reuters* Alza de transporte público, compensada parcialmente por electricidad * Banxico prevé que indicador modere tasa a partir del 3er trimestre (Agrega detalles, comentario de analistas) Por Luis Rojas MEXICO DF, 9 mayo (Reuters) - La inflación...
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