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Philippines Urges Islamist Militants To Surrender

Philippine authorities on Tuesday urged Islamist militants occupying parts of a southern city to surrender for the sake...

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Fear, Confusion As Philippine Muslim City Burns

Four hungry chickens clawed at rubbish in a deserted street that smelt of corpses as military helicopters skimmed the...

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A Painful Chapter In Nigeria’s History

Fifty years ago, the Igbo people of southeast Nigeria seceded, declaring an independent Republic of Biafra and sparking...

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Palestinians End Mass Hunger Strike In Israel Jails

Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails on hunger strike since April 17 have ended their mass protest under...

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Joy As Chibok Girls Reunited With Parents

There were emotional scenes Saturday as 82 kidnapped Chibok girls released by Boko Haram Islamists earlier this month...

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Yemen Cholera Death Toll Reaches 184

A cholera outbreak in war-torn Yemen has killed 184 people in recent weeks with another 11,000 suspected cases across...

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Four Red Cross Employees Kidnapped In Central Mali

Four Malian Red Cross employees have been kidnapped in the country's restive centre, the organisation said Monday,...

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Yemen Rebels Declare State of Emergency Over Cholera Outbreak

Rebel authorities in Yemen's capital have sounded the alarm over a spreading cholera outbreak that has killed dozens in...

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Emergency In Sanaa As Cholera Kills Scores

A state of emergency has been declared in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, after an outbreak of cholera killed scores of...

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Yemen Declares State of Emergency Over Cholera Outbreak

Authorities in Sanaa, which is controlled by Shiite rebels, have declared a state of emergency in the Yemeni capital,...

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115 Dead As Yemen Cholera Outbreak Spreads

A cholera outbreak in war-torn Yemen has killed 115 people and left 8,500 ill as hospitals struggle to cope with an...

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115 Dead As Yemen Cholera Outbreak Spreads

A cholera outbreak in war-torn Yemen has killed 115 people and left 8,500 ill as hospitals struggle to cope with an...

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First Red Cross Visit For Palestinian Hunger Strike Leader

The Red Cross visited the leader of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails on Thursday for...

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UN Urges Nigerians Not To Shun Chibok Girls

The United Nations on Monday welcomed the release of 82 Nigerian schoolgirls after years of Boko Haram captivity and...

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Freed 82 Meet President Buhari

The 82 schoolgirls released by Boko Haram Islamist militants have met Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari. They were...

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Frenchman Kidnapped In Chad Freed In Sudan

A French mineworker who was kidnapped in Chad and taken to neighbouring Sudan has been freed after more than six weeks...

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Eighty-Two Chibok Girls Freed By Boko Haram

Islamist militants of the Boko Haram group have released 82 schoolgirls from a group of 276 they abducted in...

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Boko Haram Releases 82 Chibok Girls

Islamist militants of the Boko Haram group have released 82 schoolgirls from a group of 276 they abducted in...

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Scores of Chibok Girls Released From Boko Haram

Scores of Nigerian schoolgirls who were among more than 200 kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014 have been released,...