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Nigeria sends Army to rescue kidnapped girls

At least two divisions of the Nigerian Army as well as communication facilities of the Nigerian Police and all other services have been engaged to coordinate the search for the 200 girls abducted by Islamist extremist terrorist group, Boko Haram. The soldiers are deployed in the...
Posted On 10 May 2014
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Chilean students march for the first time in 2014

Last Thursday for the first time in 2014 and for the first time the new regime of Michelle Bachelet, thousands of young Chileans protested distrustful of the educational reform announced by the president, who had promised free education at the university level in the next six...
Posted On 09 May 2014
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Syrian rebels kill 50 soldiers in an attack in the Carlton Hotel in Aleppo

As reported in the Twitter account of the Islamic Front, the main Islamist opposition alliance, fifty soldiers were killed in an attack on the Carlton Hotel in the old city of Aleppo, in northern Syria. At the same time, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that...
Posted On 09 May 2014
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U.S. delegation arrives to Nigeria to collaborate on rescue of kidnapped girls

Specialists from the FBI and the army began to arrive to Nigeria to assist in the search of more than 200 young girls kidnapped by the Islamist sect Boko Haram, informed the U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry. The President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, accepted this week the...
Posted On 09 May 2014
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Venezuelan students are evicted from campgrounds in Caracas

Almost a thousand members of the Bolivarian Police of Venezuela and the National Guard troops acted during early Thursday in a raid to dislodge the main redoubts of students movements in Caracas. During the operation, the security forces shot down four tented camps in east of the...
Posted On 09 May 2014
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H5N6 flu case in China takes its first victim

A 49-year-old man died because of avian influenza virus H5N6 in the province of Sichuan, in south-central China, being the only human contagion of this strain recorded until the present in the world. The deceased came from the city of Nanchong, in the county of Nanbu, and had...
Posted On 08 May 2014
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President of shipping company that operated the Sewol vessel was arrested

The South Korean authorities have arrested this Thursday on charges of homicide, the president of the shipping company which operated the Sewol vessel, sunk in mid-April with more than 300 dead and missing. A joint team of prosecutors and the police arrested at his home in...
Posted On 08 May 2014
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Mexico is shaken by 6.7 earthquake

Mexico suffered an earthquake of 6.7 magnitude on the Richter scale that was felt in most of the country, as confirmed by the National Seismological Service on their website. The U.S. Geological Service said that the quake had its epicenter in front of the Pacific coast, in the...
Posted On 08 May 2014
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Another minor killed in Honduras

This Thursday authorities reported a ninth murder of a minor that follows a series of killings that has included children from age two to 17 and has caused commotion in Honduras, a country attributed with the highest homicide rate in the world (79 per 100 thousand inhabitants),...
Posted On 08 May 2014
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EU approves removal of Schengen visa for Peru and Colombia

This Tuesday on an unanimously matter, member countries of the European Union (EU) approved the eliminating regulation of the requirement for short-term visas or Schengen visa for Colombians and Peruvians. This means that Colombians and Peruvians may enter the Schengen countries...
Posted On 07 May 2014
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