The Latest: Social media overflowing with sympathy for Paris
PARIS (AP) The latest on the deadly shootings and explosions in Paris. (All times local): 4:40 p.m. Social media is awash with public buildings lit up in the French colors of red, white as people...
View ArticleThe Latest: Air France flight evacuated in Amsterdam
PARIS (AP) -- The latest on the deadly shootings and explosions in Paris. (All times local): 5 p.m. An Air France flight from Amsterdam to Paris has been evacuated at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport after...
View ArticleIt's ISIS vs. the World, Not Islam vs. the World
PARIS -- La Ville Lumi�re -- The City of Light -- and its magnificent icon, the Eiffel Tower, stood draped in eerie darkness. Parts of Paris were under curfew. Street cafes bore a haunted look....
View ArticleAn Aging United Nations in 2015. But How About a New United Nations in 2020?
The new report from the Commission on Global Security, Justice, and Governance, co-chaired by former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, suggests that the 75th anniversary year in 2020 might be...
View ArticlePresident Trump: Irish writers have their say
While we were sleeping, first we voted into office the ones who watch you drown while very articulately expressing concern; then we tried voting for the ones who kind of like to see you drown. – from...
View ArticleL.A. Weekly’s New Owners Fired its Staff in Favor of Unpaid Contributors, So...
Things have been going pretty badly at L.A. Weekly ! In October, Voice Media Group sold the paper to a shadowy corporation known as the Semanal Media Group , whose ownership was kept secret. Then, the...
View Article2 US Congresswomen support #BringBackourGirls campaigners
Reprints + - In this photo taken Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2015, U.S. congresswomen, Frederica Wilson , left, Sheila Jackson Lee, right, speak during a press conference at the U.S embassy in Abuja Nigeria....
View ArticleBusinessman held for "active role" in Boko Haram’s abduction of schoolgirls
Nigerian troops have arrested a businessman accused of “participating actively” in Boko Haram’s mass abduction of nearly 300 schoolgirls from the north-eastern town of Chibok last year, Nigeria’s...
View ArticleBoko Haram leader mocks Nigerian army, parents of missing girls
Boko Haram's embattled leader, Abubakar Shekau, appears in a new video to deny reports of his death and to taunt the parents of the nearly 300 school girls the group kidnapped from their boarding...
View ArticleMan accused in Boko Haram abduction of Chibok girls arrested
Nigerian troops have arrested a businessman accused of "participating actively" in Boko Haram's mass abduction of nearly 300 schoolgirls from the northeastern town of Chibok last year, Nigeria's...
View ArticleDispatches: Return of Chibok Schoolgirl Renews Hope (HRW - Human Rights Watch)
(Source: HRW - Human Rights Watch) After more than two years, Amina Ali, one of the 276 schoolgirls Boko Haram fighters abducted from a Chibok school in a 2014 attack that sparked lasting international...
View ArticleWorld wounded, angered by Paris terror attacks
Mourners across the globe reacted to the attacks in Paris with tears and anger, but also with colourful shows of solidarity with France. Monuments across the world, from the Sydney Opera House in...
View ArticleMan held over Nigeria girls' kidnap
Nigerian troops have arrested a businessman accused of "participating actively" in Boko Haram's mass abduction of nearly 300 schoolgirls from a town. Defence Ministry s pokesman Major General Chris...
View ArticleBoko Haram May Release More Captive Chibok Schoolgirls in Nigeria
Following the release of 21 out of over 200 schoolgirls kidnapped in 2014 from their school in Nigeria, a faction of the militant group Boko Haram may be willing...
View ArticleParis Attacks: Social media a measure of solidarity
Last Friday night Paris was rocked by multiple terror attacks. By Saturday morning Facebook was awash with profile pictures overlaid with the French flag in solidarity with a city in mourning. What...
View ArticleMichelle Obama’s hashtag quest to rescue Nigerian girls
Michelle Obama told Americans - and the world - about schoolgirls abducted by the extremist group Boko Haram in Nigeria. But the first lady's awareness campaign has failed - at least in part. The...
View ArticleThe power — and the impotence — of social media
United Airlines’ travails this week are certainly a sign of the power of social media. But other news shows the stark limit of that power: Friday was the third anniversary of the horror...
View ArticleFrance's flag flies on social media as people worldwide grieve terror victims
Social media is awash with public buildings lit up in the French colors of blue, white and red as people globally expressed their solidarity with the French after deadly terror attacks in Paris. Users...
View ArticleChibok People Combed Sambisa Forest Hoping To Rescue Schoolgirls Like Amina...
The successful rescue of Amina Ali Nkeki has prompted a group of Chibok people to comb Sambisa Forest hoping that they would find the remaining schoolgirls who were abducted in April 2014 by terrorist...
View ArticleArtist Jean Jullien's Eiffel Tower peace sign goes viral after Paris terror...
In the wake of the horrifying terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday, many took to social media to express their condolences and concern for the people of the French capital, using hashtags like...
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