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Sorry, but when I decide who to vote for on Election Day, it will be the person I think can best represent the country, not the candidate that will most impress my boyfriend.

Meet Nigerian teens make sci-fi films with smartphones

Meet Nigerian teens make sci-fi films with smartphones
In a compound in Nigeria’s north-western state of Kaduna, Godwin Josiah and his cousins hang green fabric on a gate as they get ready to shoot a movie scene. Using a smartphone and a tripod made from a broken microphone stand, they start. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adzP5p2RC7U A blower...

Interview:Somali-American makes history with election

THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW State representative-elect Ilhan Omar, the first Somali-American elected to a state legislature, talks with Rachel Maddow about the demonizing of her community by Donald Trump and how her election is being received by the public. Duration: 7:3   SOURCE:MSNBC

Community prepares for Somali family’s arrival after executive order barred them last week

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Community prepares for Somali family's arrival after executive order barred them last week. Workers with the resettlement group Della Lamb Community Services joined Country Club Christian Church volunteers Tuesday in preparing a northeast Kansas City house slated to be home for a family of nine...

Pakistan’s Imran Khan and associates shot and injured during protest march

Pakistan's former PM Imran Khan (C) addresses an anti-government rally, Gujranwala, Pakistan, Nov. 1, 2022. (AFP Photo)
By: Washington Post ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s top opposition leader, Imran Khan, was shot in the foot Thursday during a protest march and was lightly injured, party officials said. A gunman opened fire on...

Pentagon Warns Ships as Pirates Again Prowl Waters Off Somalia

By HELENE COOPERAPRIL 23, 2017 CAMP LEMONNIER, Djibouti — Commercial ships must once again shore up their defenses against forced boardings at sea, United States Defense Department officials said on Sunday, warning that Somali pirates are returning to waters off East Africa after five years...

United Nations Support Mission in Libya Statement on the Return of Tawergha IDPs

TUNIS, Tunisia, February 5, 2018/ -- United Nations Support Mission in Libya Statement on the Return of Tawergha IDPs: The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) deeply regrets that families from the Tawergha community were prevented from returning to their homes by some extremist elements. Furthermore,...

All 92 on Syria-bound Russian military jet killed in crash, including 60 from Red Army Choir

By Polina Devitt and Andrew Osborn | MOSCOW A Russian military plane carrying 92 people, including dozens of Red Army Choir singers, dancers and orchestra members, crashed into the Black Sea on its way to Syria on Sunday, killing everyone on board, Russian authorities said. The...

Hopes of Minnesota’s film industry ride on ‘Mogadishu’

In January, HBO is expected to decide whether to greenlight a new series, “Mogadishu, Minnesota,” about Muslim immigrants adjusting to life in the Midwest. The pilot was shot in the Twin Cities this fall, and a decision to base the show here would pump tens...

FAO seeks US$1 Billion to feed 40m hungry people

By AGATHA NGOTHO The Food and Agriculture Organisation has appealed for US$1 billion (Sh102 billion) to feed more than 40 million starving people in drought-stricken countries worldwide. “Forecasts for 2017 are alarming as millions of people, many of them children, face the threat of starvation in...

Taliban fighters enter northern Afghan city of Kunduz

Taliban fighters attacked the northern Afghan city of Kunduz overnight, entering urban areas and threatening a repeat of the assault in which they seized the city exactly a year ago. Sheer Ali Kamawal, commander of the 808 Tandar police zone in Kunduz, said the attack...