Nigerian Kidnaps: Can Anything Be Done?

The temptation to "do something" is almost overwhelming. Some 270 school girls abducted, many already raped, dragged into the bush and now threatened with being sold into slavery. Of course the "do something" instinct comes to the fore. In fact it's...

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Nigerian Girl 'Ran And Ran' To Escape Kidnap

A Nigerian girl who staged a remarkable escape when gunmen took her and more than 200 others hostage has described how she was told: "Don't worry, we're soldiers. Nothing is going to happen to you." The 16-year-old was snatched from her boarding school...

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Oscar Pistorius Neighbours 'Did Not Hear Reeva'

By Alex Crawford, Special Correspondent, in Pretoria Oscar Pistorius' next-door neighbour has told a court he heard "very loud" cries from someone "desperate for help" on the night the athlete's girlfriend was shot dead. But Michael Nhlengethwa,...

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Pilot Crashes Into House He Used To Own

A pilot who crashed his light plane into a house in Colorado used to own the property, it has emerged. Brian Veatch told KMGH-TV in Denver he once lived in the home, and property records indicated that he sold it in 2003. Mr Veatch told the...

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'Boko Haram' Kidnaps More Girls In Nigeria

Suspected Boko Haram gunmen have kidnapped eight girls from a Nigerian village overnight, police and residents have said. The girls, aged 12 to 15, were abducted near one of the Islamist militant group's strongholds in the northeast of the country....

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Oscar Pistorius Trial: Athlete Was 'Frantic'

One of Oscar Pistorius' former neighbours has told the athlete's murder trial how he "begged" her to save his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp's life. Carice Viljoen, who raced to the 27-year-old's home after he called her father for help, said the distressed...

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Amanda Knox: CCTV Casts Doubt Over Alibi

CCTV footage has emerged that could challenge Amanda Knox's alibi on the night Meredith Kercher was murdered. A video obtained by Italian television shows a person resembling Knox walking through a car park away from the house the pair shared in Perugia....

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Ukraine Helicopter Shot Down Over Slavyansk

A Ukrainian helicopter has been shot down over the pro-Russian stronghold of Slavyansk as the security situation in the country continues to worsen. Ukraine's defence ministry said the pilots survived. Elsewhere in the east of the country four paramilitary...

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Ukraine: Diplomatic Flurry To Limit Violence

Now that Crimea has gone to the Russians, and the east of Ukraine is sliding in the same direction, where does Foreign Secretary William Hague go? To Moldova, Ukraine, and Georgia. This is diplomacy by signalling. The signal to Moscow is 'Don't even...

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Nigerian Girls' Kidnapper: 'I Will Sell Them'

The Islamist kidnapper of more than 200 Nigerian girls missing since April 14 has vowed to sell them, reports say. Abubakar Shekau claimed in a video obtained by the AFP news wire service that a buyer for the schoolgirls would be found. Describing...

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Thirty-Seven Al Qaeda Militants Killed In Yemen

Thirty-seven al Qaeda militants have been killed in fighting in Yemen, the country's state news agency Saba is reporting. A military source was quoted as saying most of those killed in the southern province of Shabwa were Saudis, Afghans, Somalis, Chechens...

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Landslide Buries Village: Rescuers Lose Hope

Rescue teams have abandoned the search for survivors after a landslide buried a hillside village in northern Afghanistan, killing at least 350 people under a tide of rock and mud. Local people and emergency workers using shovels tried in vain to find...

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Victim Of South Africa's 'Rich Man's Justice'

By Alex Crawford, Special Correspondent There are two types of justice in South Africa: one for the rich and another for those without money and privilege, a human rights group in Johannesburg has claimed. The Wits Justice Project, which investigates...

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Pro-Russian Rebels Storm Police HQ In Ukraine

Thousands of pro-Russian militants have reportedly stormed a police headquarters in the southern Ukrainian city of Odessa. An AFP reporter on the scene said around 3,000 people were involved in the attack. The mob is said to have shouted "fascists,...

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'Casualties After Explosions' Hit Kenya Buses

At least one person has been killed and several others hurt after bomb attacks against two buses in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. The vehicles were being driven along a busy highway when explosive devices were thrown at them. The blasts happened in the...

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