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In 2019, at least 755 people had died through October in violence involving jihadist groups across Burkina Faso, according to Reuters' analysis of political violence events recorded by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project, an NGO. Actual numbers are likely higher - researchers aren't.... |
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today demanded Boris Johnson 's Tories stand aside in seats he believes are winnable for the Brexit Party after standing down almost half of his candidates. He demanded a quid pro quo after he agreed not to run in 317 seats the Tories won in 2017 - and a number of potential target seats for Mr.... |
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November 12, 2019. By Tim Cocks. FAUBE, Burkina Faso (Reuters) – When an Islamist preacher took up the fight in Burkina Faso’s northern borderlands almost a decade ago, his only weapon was a radio station. The words he spoke kindled the anger of a frustrated population, and helped turn their homes into a breeding ground for jihad. |
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Following is a summary of current world news briefs. Violence brings Hong Kong to 'brink of total breakdown': police. Hong Kong police fired tear gas on Tuesday in the Central financial district, over the harbour in Mong Kok and at universities to break up pro-democracy protests which they said were.... |
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Highlights in history on this date. 1789 - Benjamin Franklin writes a letter to a friend in which he says: "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." 1909 - Some 250 miners die in a fire and explosion at the St Paul Mine at Cherry, Illinois. 1914 - Greece and Turkey sign peace treaty. |
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Residents of this parched region in the Sahel - a vast band of thorny scrub beneath the Sahara Desert - remember applauding Ibrahim “Malam” Dicko as he denounced his country’s Western-backed government and racketeering police over the airwaves. “We cheered,” said Adama Kone, a 32-year-old teacher.... |
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This 10-passenger Pennsylvania Central Airlines flight circled around downtown Buffalo for this 1937 view. The most familiar buildings in the 82-year-old photo are what was then the Niagara-Hudson Electric Building in the center at the top, and just to the right, the gold-domed Buffalo Savings Bank building. |
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Residents of this parched region in the Sahel - a vast band of thorny scrub beneath the Sahara Desert - remember applauding Ibrahim “Malam” Dicko as he denounced his country’s Western-backed government and racketeering police over the airwaves. “We cheered,” said Adama Kone, a 32-year-old teacher.... |
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By Tim Cocks. FAUBE, Burkina Faso (Reuters) - When an Islamist preacher took up the fight in Burkina Faso's northern borderlands almost a decade ago, his only weapon was a radio station. The words he spoke kindled the anger of a frustrated population, and helped turn their homes into a breeding ground for jihad. |
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By Tim Cocks. FAUBE, Burkina Faso, Nov 12 (Reuters) - When an Islamist preacher took up the fight in Burkina Faso's northern borderlands almost a decade ago, his only weapon was a radio station. The words he spoke kindled the anger of a frustrated population, and helped turn their homes into a breeding ground for jihad. |
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YEREVAN -- Unknown gunmen have shot dead an Armenian Catholic priest and his father as they were traveling in a car in northeastern Syria. Father Hovsep Petoian, the head of the Armenian Catholic community in the the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli near the border with Turkey, and his father,.... |
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