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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: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Petroleum Industry, Wars and Interventions, Human Rights, Armed Forces
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U.N. calls for sanctions on Central African Republic rights abusers
ReutersUNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. envoy to the Central African Republic urged the Security Council on Wednesday to consider imposing sanctions on rebels accused of severe rights violations including rape, maiming, recruitment of child soldiers and...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Ban Ki-moon, Wars and Interventions, Chad, Africa
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U.N. condemns Assad forces, but unease grows about rebels
ReutersUNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. General Assembly condemned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces and praised the opposition on Wednesday, but a decline in support for the resolution suggested growing unease about extremism among Syria's...Tags: China, France, Human Rights, International Organizations, Ban Ki-moon
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Nigeria rumbles to war footing as soldiers head to northeast for Islamic extremist fight
Associated PressLAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria rumbled to a war footing Wednesday as soldiers and equipment moved into its northeastern states as part of an emergency military campaign against Islamic extremists waging a bloody insurgency. In the last two days,...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, The Associated Press, Police Arrests, Wars and Interventions, Human Rights
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Nigerian troops on new offensive against Islamists
ReutersMAIDUGURI/YOLA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria launched a military campaign on Wednesday to flush Islamist militants out of their bases in remote border areas, after President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in the northeast. Nigerian troops...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Niger, Petroleum Industry, Wars and Interventions, Armed Forces
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Bombs kill more than 35 people across Iraq
ReutersBAGHDAD (Reuters) - Bomb attacks in Shi'ite areas of Baghdad and in northern Iraq killed more than 35 people on Wednesday, following weeks of violence by Sunni Islamist insurgents determined to unleash sectarian confrontation. Tensions between minority...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, International Military Interventions, Wars and Interventions, Bashar Assad, Shootings
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Former Dutch minister Koenders to be named UN Mali envoy-diplomats
ReutersBy Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS, May 15 (Reuters) - Former Dutch development minister Gerard Koenders will be named U.N. special envoy for Mali and head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the West African country, where Islamist militants hijacked...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Ban Ki-moon, Wars and Interventions, Sudan, Mali
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RPT-ANALYSIS-Syria's savagery will thwart reconciliation
Reuters(Repeats with no changes) * Warring parties film themselves committing atrocities * Neither side condemns brutality in their own ranks * Balkans, Lebanon show savagery delays reconciliation By Oliver Holmes BEIRUT, May 14 (Reuters) - Syrian...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, War Crimes, Wars and Interventions, Bashar Assad, Revolutions
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At least 31 killed as army, Mai Mai rebels clash in east Congo
ReutersKINSHASA (Reuters) - At least 31 people were killed in violent clashes after Mai Mai rebels attacked army positions in Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern town of Beni, a military spokesman said on Wednesday. Gunmen launched the attack early on...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Wars and Interventions, Congo
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Analysis: Syria peace talks look doomed in advance
ReutersLONDON (Reuters) - If anyone saw last week's U.S.-Russian agreement to convene a peace conference on Syria as a potential breakthrough, Western leaders have been going out of their way to disabuse them. International envoy Lakhdar Brahimi hailed the plan...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Vladimir Putin, International Military Interventions, Wars and Interventions, Bashar Assad
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Turkey's Erdogan to push Obama on Syria after bombings
Reuters* U.S. seeks Turkish support with Syria peace conference * Erdogan, Obama to discuss evidence of chemical weapons use * Israel relations, Iraq energy also on agenda By Nick Tattersall WASHINGTON, May 14 (Reuters) - Turkey's prime minister will push U....Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Washington, DC, White House, Petroleum Industry, Wars and Interventions
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Analysis: Syria's savagery will thwart reconciliation
ReutersBEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian soldiers slowly stab a man to death, puncturing his back dozens of times. A rebel commander bites an organ ripped out of an enemy combatant. A young boy hacks the head off a prisoner. A soldier mutilates the genitals of a corpse....Tags: Revolutions, Human Rights, Political Dissent, Islam, Human Rights Watch
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