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The Search of Policy Alternatives for a Central America in Conflict and Crisis

The media spotlight has all but moved on from the recently white-hot humanitarian crisis on the Southern U.S. border involving upwards of 60,000 child refugees from Central America. Sadly, the region...

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An Expedient and Dishonest Trade-Off by the UN in Darfur

For years humanitarian organizations working in Darfur have been hampered by a range of restrictions imposed by the National Islamic Front/National Congress Party regime in Khartoum. One especially...

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NATO's Leaders Need a Reality Check on Afghanistan

It was no surprise that the many crises facing NATO would distract them from a real conversation about Afghanistan at their summit in Wales, though it should have focused their minds. Instead, NATO...

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Africa's Present Vs Future

During the 2014 annual meetings of the African Development Bank in Kigali, Rwanda last May, the mood was both optimistic and pessimistic. On the one hand, the mood was upbeat and a sense of imminent...

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ISIS Claims To Behead Another Lebanese Soldier

Islamic State fighters on Saturday claimed to have beheaded a second Lebanese soldier captured by the militant group last month. Supporters of the group posted photos on Twitter claiming to show the...

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India's Smog Destroyed Enough Crops In A Year To Feed 94 Million People: Study

India's smog problem could be preventing tens of millions of the country's poorest people from getting the food they desperately need. According to a new study published in the journal Geophysical...

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Kei Nishikori Shocks Novak Djokovic To Seal Historic Spot In U.S. Open Final

NEW YORK (AP) -- Kei Nishikori could tell from all the messages on his phone that the fans back home in Japan were watching in the middle of the night. The 24-year-old stunned top-ranked Novak Djokovic...

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The Best Economies In The World: 24/7 Wall St.

After sliding for four consecutive years, the United States moved up two places for the second year in a row in the World Economic Forum’s competitiveness rankings, from fifth last year to third in...

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Henry Kissinger: Iran 'A Bigger Problem Than ISIS'

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said that Iran "is a bigger problem than ISIS." In an interview with NPR that was released on Saturday, Kissinger explained that because Iran has a stronger...

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Scottish Independence Supporters Lead Poll For First Time

LONDON, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Supporters of Scottish independence have taken their first opinion poll lead since the referendum campaign began, according to a YouGov survey for the Sunday Times...

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Ukraine Ceasefire Over? Shelling Reported Near Port City

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Witnesses in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol reported sustained explosions outside the city and a volunteer battalion of Ukrainian fighters says Grad rockets were fired at its...

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Jamaica: Missing Plane Debris May Have Been Spotted

By Aileen Torres-Bennett KINGSTON, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Rescuers were searching on Saturday for the wreckage of a small U.S. private plane that crashed off the east coast of Jamaica, after the Jamaican...

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American Matthew Miller, Detained In North Korea, Gets Trial Date

SEOUL, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Matthew Miller, one of three detained Americans in North Korea, will face trial next week, a short statement carried by state media said on Sunday, without elaborating any...

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Man Jailed After Calling, Texting Ex-Girlfriend 21,807 Times

A French man is reportedly now behind bars after calling and texting his ex-girlfriend 21,807 times. According to the Agence France-Presse, the 33-year-old man, who has not been named, was slapped with...

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Families Of MH370 Claim Abuse And Detainment By Chinese Police

By Megha Rajagopalan BEIJING, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Six months after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 went missing, relatives of those lost, desperate for any hint of what happened, say Chinese authorities...

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Jamaica: Missing Plane Believed Sunk

(Adds details, quotes; in paragraphs 1, 3-5, 8) By Aileen Torres-Bennett KINGSTON, Sept 6 (Reuters) - The search for the wreckage of a small U.S. private plane that crashed off the northeast coast of...

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Ukraine's Ceasefire In Doubt After Deadly Shelling

SPARTAK, Ukraine (AP) — Shelling and other clashes between government forces and Russian-backed separatists threw the cease-fire agreement in eastern Ukraine into deepening peril Sunday, two days after...

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Sixty Seconds of Art

I was sitting in a café in Bratislava, having a final cup of coffee and picking up my email before boarding a train for Budapest. I was dimly aware of a couple of guys in another part of the café...

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Ted Cruz On Islamic State Militants: 'Take Them Out'

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said Sunday that President Barack Obama "has not demonstrated that he’s taking ISIS seriously" and that he should quickly ask for Congress' approval to move in on Islamic State...

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Boko Haram Seizes Towns In Northeast Nigeria

YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's Islamic extremist group, Boko Haram, has seized more towns along Nigeria's northeastern border with Cameroon and is adopting a strategy of encouraging civilians to stay,...

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