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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s New Novel Reveals Contemporary Realities For Nigerians

In this photo taken, Saturday, April 27, 2013, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, left, signs autographs during a book launch of her new book ‘Americanah’, in Lagos, Nigeria. Modern life in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city, has become almost a character itself in novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s new book, “Americanah.” (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba) LAGOS — The traffic is […]

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LAGOS — The traffic is there, grinding life to a halt as the middle class pound out messages on BlackBerry mobile phones and worry about Facebook. The heat, the sweat and the daily tragedy of unclaimed bodies lying alongside roadways, passers-by hurrying past for fear of someone else's misfortune becoming entangled in their own. This is modern

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Survivors Gather As US Holocaust Memorial Museum Marks 20th Anniversary

This Thursday, April 25, 2013 photo shows a 1941 farewell letter from a Butrimonys Jew in hiding, at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum during a preview of the new exhibit “Some Were Neighbors: Collaboration & Complicity in the Holocaust” in Washington. The exhibition, opening April 30, 2013, includes interviews with perpetrators of collaboration and […]

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WASHINGTON — Elderly survivors of the Holocaust and the veterans who helped liberate them are gathering for what could be their last big reunion at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Some 1,000 survivors and World War II vets are coming together with President Bill Clinton and Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust activist and writer, on Monday when the

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World Trade Center Replacement Nears Completion

One World Trade Center rises above the lower Manhattan skyline, April 13, 2013 in New York. It is already New York’s tallest building. But when the last pieces of its spire go up to the roof Monday, April 28, the 104-floor skyscraper will be one step away from becoming the highest in the Western Hemisphere. […]

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NEW YORK — One World Trade Center already is New York's tallest building. And when the last pieces of its spire rise to the roof — weather permitting — the 104-floor skyscraper that replaces the fallen twin towers will be just feet from becoming the highest in the Western Hemisphere. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey says the

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Religious Divide, Poverty Drive Terrorist Back-And-Forth In Nigeria

French President Francois Hollande, left, welcomes former hostages Tanguy Moulin-Fournier, second from right, and his brother Cyril Moulin-Fournier, third from right, at the Orly airport near Paris, Saturday, April 20, 2013. The French members of the Moulin-Fournier family were released after being held in Nigeria for two months by a radical sect known as Boko […]

Nick Street
بواسطة Nick Street

JOS, Nigeria — Worshipers filed past sentries armed with automatic weapons and filtered through a line of shoulder-high concrete pylons before reaching the headquarters of the Church of Christ in Nigeria. The pylons were installed in early 2012, after a car loaded with explosives rammed past the church compound’s main gate, killing four and sending

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The Usual $uspects: Chronic Fraud By US Defense Contractors

Lockheed Martin vice president Jeff Babione turns the key over to Air Force General Norton Schwartz, Chief of Staff of the Air Force, during the final F-22 Raptor Delivery Ceremony in May 2012. Last year, Lockheed Martin agreed to pay the DOJ $15,850,000 on allegations that it mischarged perishable tools on a number of government […]

Frederick Reese
بواسطة Frederick Reese

In 2009, the United States government filed a formal claim against Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman — two major defense contractors — in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas in regard to alleged violations of the False Claims Act, according to leaked court documents. The Integrated Deepwater System Program (IDS Program or

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Syria PM Survives Assassination Attempt

This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows Syrians carrying a charred body after a car bomb exploded in the capital’s western neighborhood of Mazzeh, in Damascus, Syria, Monday, April. 29, 2013. State-run Syrian TV says Prime Minister Wael al-Halqir has escaped unhurt in an assassination attempt when a bomb went off […]

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DAMASCUS, Syria — Syria's prime minister escaped an assassination attempt Monday when a bomb went off near his convoy in Damascus, state media reported, the latest attack targeting a top official in President Bashar Assad's regime. Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi was unhurt in the bombing in the capital's western neighborhood of Mazzeh, state TV

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