Gunmen riding motorcycles attacked a group of civilians returning from a market day in an unstable corner of Niger, killing at least 58 people and then burning grain to the ground, the government said Tuesday. Immediate responsibility for Monday’s massacre was not claimed, although extremists affiliated with the Islamic State …
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NIMAY, Niger (AP) – Gunmen on motorcycles attacked a group of civilians returning from a market day in a volatile corner of Niger, killing at least 58 people and then burning grain to the ground, it said Tuesday. Immediate responsibility for Monday’s massacre was not claimed, although extremists affiliated with …
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WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned 15 people, including a pair of congressional Republicans, a 2016 campaign official and former government contractor caught in a Russian investigation and convicted in the 2007 genocide in Baghdad. Trump’s actions in his final week in office show a president who …
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UMM Rakuba, Sudan (AP) – The only survivors can agree that hundreds of people were massacred in a single Ethiopian city. Witnesses say security forces and their allies attacked civilians in Mai-Kadra with glasses and knives or strangled them with ropes. The body odor lasted for days during the initial …
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Nairobi, Kenya (AP) – Ethiopia’s situation is “out of control with a devastating effect on civilians” and urgently needs to be monitored, the UN human rights chief warned on Wednesday, but Ethiopia is rejecting calls for an independent inquiry into its deadly fight. Saying, “He doesn’t need a baby sitter.” …
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