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'Bandits' kill, abduct, loot village in Nigeria
AFP, Published on 05/01/2026
» LAGOS - Armed gangs have killed more than 30 people and kidnapped others in a raid in the same Nigerian state where hundreds of schoolchildren were abducted late last year, police said on Sunday.
US charges four Iranians with plotting to abduct reporter in New York
AFP, Published on 14/07/2021
» WASHINGTON - Four Iranian nationals were indicted Tuesday on charges of plotting to abduct a journalist in New York and smuggle her out of the country to Iran, the Justice Department said.
Gunmen abduct 140 school students in northwest Nigeria
AFP, Published on 06/07/2021
» KADUNA (NIGERIA) - Gunmen kidnapped 140 students from a boarding school in northwestern Nigeria on Monday, a school official and police said, the latest in a wave of mass abductions targeting schoolchildren.
Hazaras fear for the future as foreign troops exit Afghanistan
AFP, Published on 28/01/2021
» BAMIYAN (AFGHANISTAN) - The choice was straightforward for Hamidullah Asadi, a member of Afghanistan's minority Hazara community -- wait for the next deadly attack or join a growing militia in the mountains.
60 years on, Israel prosecutor recalls Eichmann trial
AFP, Published on 08/05/2020
» JERUSALEM - Days after Israel's spectacular announcement that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann had been captured and brought to Israel for trial, Gabriel Bach was given an assignment that forever changed his life.
Iraq parties in talks over new PM amid unrelenting protests
AFP, Published on 03/12/2019
» BAGHDAD - Iraq's rival parties were negotiating the contours of a new government on Monday, after the previous cabinet was brought down by a two-month protest movement insisting on even more deep-rooted change.
Rajapaksas eye comeback in Sri Lanka presidential election
AFP, Published on 16/11/2019
» COLOMBO - Sri Lankans voted Saturday for a new president in what could mark a comeback for the Rajapaksa clan, lauded by supporters for crushing the Tamil Tigers but condemned by critics for war crimes, corruption and cosying up to China.
Despair, jihadism and revolt: Mali's torn heart
AFP, Published on 05/11/2019
» MOPTI (MALI) - Untroubled by time, the mighty Niger River glides through the Sahel city as women wash their clothes in its brackish waters and cows slumber nearby in the heat.
Boko Haram attacks leave 53 dead in pre-election show of force
AFP, Published on 20/11/2018
» KANO (NIGERIA) - Boko Haram jihadists have killed 53 soldiers and farmers in three days of attacks in northeastern Nigeria, security sources said Tuesday, in a new show of force ahead of February elections in the West African country.
Over 270,000 displaced by south Syria violence, UN says
AFP, Published on 02/07/2018
» DARAA (SYRIA) - More than a quarter of a million people have fled a Russian-backed government onslaught on southern Syria, the United Nations said Monday, in the latest civilian exodus in the seven-year war.