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Jets join offensive in northeast Nigeria, opinion split
Reuters* President Jonathan declared state of emergency on Tuesday * Aims to wrest control of remote areas from Islamists * U.S., rights groups fear abuses, worsening violence By Imma Ande YOLA, Nigeria, May 16 (Reuters) - Nigeria sent fighter jets in...Tags: Armed Forces, Justice and Rights, Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Amnesty International
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Reuters World News Highlights at 1230 GMT, May 16
ReutersMay 16 (Reuters) - KABUL - A suicide bomber in a car attacked a convoy of foreign troops in Kabul on Thursday, killing at least 15 people including six Americans, in one of the worst attacks in the Afghan capital in months. - - - - UNITED NATIONS -...Tags: Washington, DC, Career and Workplace, Parliament, Politics, Bashar Assad
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Nigerian forces attack Islamist hideouts in northeast-sources
ReutersMAIDUGURI, May 16 (Reuters) - Nigerian forces began attacking Islamist hideouts in the northeast on Thursday, security sources said, part of an offensive to wrest control of the region from increasingly bold and well-armed Boko Haram insurgents. Soldiers...Tags: Wildlife
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Nigerian forces attack Islamist hideouts in northeast: sources
ReutersMAIDUGURI (Reuters) - Nigerian forces began attacking Islamist hideouts in the northeast on Thursday, security sources said, part of an offensive to wrest control of the region from increasingly bold and well-armed Boko Haram insurgents. Soldiers...Tags: Wildlife
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Reuters World News Highlights at 1715 GMT, May 15
ReutersWASHINGTON - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner raised the possibility of jail time on Wednesday for law violations in the growing scandal involving the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups for extra tax scrutiny. -...Tags: European Union, U.S. House of Representatives, Politics, David Cameron, Nigeria
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Reuters World News Highlights at 2045 GMT, May 15
ReutersMay 15 (Reuters) - WASHINGTON - As Republican lawmakers stepped up their calls for top Internal Revenue Service officials to resign, President Barack Obama planned to meet with Treasury to discuss how to respond to the growing uproar over the IRS's...Tags: Washington, DC, European Union, U.S. Department of Justice, Bashar Assad, David Cameron
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Nigeria's military starts campaign to flush out Islamists
ReutersLAGOS, May 15 (Reuters) - Nigeria launched a campaign on Wednesday to flush Islamist militants out of bases in its border areas a day after President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in the northeast. "The operations, which will involve...Tags: Nigeria
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Reuters World News Highlights 1400 GMT, May 15
ReutersUNITED NATIONS - The U.N. General Assembly is set to vote on Wednesday on a draft resolution that condemns Syrian authorities and accepts the opposition Syrian National Coalition as party to a potential political transition. - - - - BRUSSELS/BERLIN -...Tags: Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), France, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Nigeria, Germany
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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: Chad, Islam, Explosions, Religion and Belief, Shootings
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Nigerian lawmakers to probe state oil firm deals without tenders
Reuters* Activists say contracts given to firms with no experience * Say transparent bidding process lacking * State oil firm denies any wrongdoing By Tim Cocks LAGOS, May 3 (Reuters) - Nigerian lawmakers said that next week they will investigate deals in...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Justice System, National Government, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Petroleum Development Corporation
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RPT-ANALYSIS-Nigeria faces long, bumpy road to making the lights work
Reuters(Repeats to more subscribers, no change to text) * Nigeria is privatising defunct state electricity firm * President likely to miss ambitious generation targets * Gas supply, funding, unions pose immediate risk * Investor optimistic that slow progress...Tags: Theft, Business Enterprises, Politics, Company Privatization, Electricity Production and Distribution
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Nigerian army says seven die in latest Islamist attack
Reuters* Two police, five attackers killed in police station raid * Assault blamed on Boko Haram militants MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, April 25 (Reuters) - Two Nigerian policemen and five attackers were killed in a midnight raid on a police station by suspected...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, American Red Cross, Rebellions, Nigeria, Terrorism
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