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Members Of Ethiopian Ethnic Group Seeking Autonomy Face Abductions In Kenya

Refugees and Leaders of the Ogaden separatist group face increasing human-rights abuses.

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An underfed Ethiopian Somali boy with polio

Refugees in Kenya who come from Ethiopia’s eastern Ogaden region, where the predominant population is ethnically Somali, are calling on the Kenyan government to protect them as harassment and kidnappings increase, according to various reports. Most recently, two officials with the Ogaden National Liberation Front -- a rebel insurgent group

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Nigerian Islamists Stage Deadly Attack on Christian Village

Dozens of residents in northeastern Nigeria have been killed in two separate attacks launched by Boko Haram terrorists.

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In this photo taken with an iPad on Friday, Jan. 31, 2014, women and children who survived attacks by Boko haram sits outside a compound at St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church, in Wada Chakawa, Yola, Nigeria.. (AP Photo/ Ibrahim Abdulaziz)

Dozens of residents in northeastern Nigeria were killed in two separate attacks by suspected Boko Haram militants, with the death toll topping 100, according to various reports on Monday. In the first attack, Boko Haram gunmen surrounded Izge, a Christian farming village close to the border with Cameroon on Sunday, burning down dozens of homes and

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Witnesses Question Police Actions In Bay Area Transit Incident

BART policeman uses taser twice — once as two other policemen hold suspect down — on man that witnesses claim wasn’t doing anything wrong.

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The night of Jan. 29 wasn’t a good one for Robert Asberry, a San Francisco area resident who happened to be intoxicated while riding on the Bay Area Rapid Transit train. Eyewitnesses at the scene said a policeman gave multiple commands to Asberry to get off a train at a station in San Bruno, but Asberry clearly resisted, according to videos posted

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Vague Law Tested In Boston Case Involving Exposure Of Animal Mistreatment

Animal-rights activists are looking to strike down the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, which they argue is part of a broader crackdown peaceful, non-violent environmental causes.

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Three Holsteins cows at Larson Acres Inc. in the Town of Magnolia, Wis. The farm is owned by Mike Larson and has 2,900 dairy cows. (AP Photo/Dinesh Ramde)

A high-profile case in the First District Court of Appeals in Boston is currently under way involving four suspects at the center of a lawsuit who claim their First Amendment rights are being violated by a law enacted by Congress in 2006 meant to suppress animal-rights supporters, according to various reports. The law -- called the Animal

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Is The Somali Government Arming Militias And Terrorists?

A new report cites “systematic abuses” by the government and accuses it of planning shipments to militias and a leader of an al-Qaida-linked terror group.

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An alarming report by the U.N. monitoring group charged with overseeing Somalia warns the government there has been steering weapons to clan-based militias and possibly even al-Shabaab, according to an article by Reuters on Thursday. Somalia has long been a vortex for arms shipments. Beginning during the Carter administration and continuing

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PBS News Division At Center Of Corruption Allegation

A new PBS series on pension policy in America is secretly funded by a billionaire who formerly worked at Enron, a journalist claims.

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California state employee Diane Greagor joined hundreds of other state employees and supporters in a demonstration against proposed budget cuts to state employee pay, furloughs and other state services during a rally at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Any police officer, teacher or janitor who works in city government until retirement and expects well-planned pension benefits should be worried about the status of his or her economic future. Powerful anti-pension lobbyists want to take that entitlement away from the masses, and they’re willing to bring the media in on their crusade, according to

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Who Are Today’s Devil’s Advocates?

The controversial French lawyer Jacques Vergès, who represented rebels, war criminals, terrorists and dictators, died last year. But who are his modern-day equivalents?

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If you had the money and fit the profile, then you may have been one of the infamous clients of the late Jacques Vergès, attorney to the despised. The French criminal lawyer represented some of the most uniformly-loathed people of the 20th century:  Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie, (a.k.a. the “Butcher of Lyon”); Khmer Rouge genocidaire Pol Pot; the

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