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Chad Military Council: No Talks With Rebels Who Killed President Deby
Chad’s military transitional government says it will not negotiate with the rebels blamed for killing the country’s president of three decades
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Rebels Vow to Take Capital After Chadian President Killed
A top military commander says that Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno has been killed on the battlefield in a fight against rebels
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US Orders Diplomats to Leave Chad as Rebels Near Capital
The State Department has ordered non-essential diplomats at the U.S. Embassy in Chad to leave the African nation due to potential insurgent attacks on the capital.
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Oil Nations Tipped for Political Instability If the World Moves Away From Fossil Fuels
Algeria, Chad, Iraq and Nigeria will be among the first countries to experience political instability if the “energy transition” occurs, says Verisk Maplecroft.
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Macron Marks Armistice Day, 101 Years After End of WWI
French President Emmanuel Macron marked Armistice Day on Monday by visiting the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier under Paris’ Arc de Triomphe, as a giant tricolor flag flew overhead. Greeted by Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, Macron laid a wreath and inspected troops during the ceremony celebrating 101 years since the Armistice that ended the slaughter of World War I. He...
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Father Outraged Over Video Showing Attack on Daughter
A father is expressing concern after multiple shocking attacks on his daughter were recorded at her middle school in Nashua.
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Jimmy Carter, Oldest Living Ex-President, Turns 95
Jimmy Carter is celebrating his 95th birthday, becoming the first U.S. president to reach that milestone as he continues his humanitarian work and occasionally wades back into politics and policy debates almost four decades after leaving office. Carter, who served from 1977-1981 and still lives in tiny Plains, Georgia, planned no public celebrations on Tuesday.
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Michigan Adoption Agencies Can Turn Away LGBT Couples, Judge Rules
Religious-based adoption agencies that contract with the state of Michigan will be allowed to refuse to place children in LGBT homes under a preliminary injunction issued by a federal judge Thursday. District Judge Robert Jonker in Grand Rapids blocked Democratic state Attorney General Dana Nessel, Michigan’s first openly gay statewide officeholder, from barring the faith-based agencies from excluding LGBT couples...
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Federal Government to Blame for Faster, More Destructive Wildfires in California, Scientists Say
Nearly 300 scientists from across the country and abroad believe actions taken by the U.S. Forest Service are contributing to faster, more devastating wildfires throughout California. The fiery debate centers around a long-time practice known as ‘post-fire logging.’
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Keanu Reeves, Halle Berry Expand John Wick Universe in ‘Chapter 3 – Parabellum'
It’s a common rule of thumb in the film industry. By the time most film franchises lumber forward toward the third chapter in a trilogy, they’re usually out of gas and out of ideas. But, “John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum ” may be the exception to the rule. Who would’ve thought you’d get that much mileage out of a...
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Boston Celebrates Start of 2019
With Chadwick Stokes performing and fireworks going off, excited throngs of revelers at First Night Boston said hello to 2019.
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First Night and ‘Calling All Crows'
“Calling All Crows,” the charitable organization co-founded by headliner Chadwick Stokes, is one of the organizations being highlighted by the charity partner program at First Night Boston.
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Looking Ahead to First Night With Chadwick Stokes
Chadwick Stokes, who will headline First Night 2019, sits down with NBC10 Boston.
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NH Rodent Problem Blamed on Construction
There is a pesky problem in Plaistow, New Hampshire, with rats running around all over town. Some residents think they know why.
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Rhino Pregnancy at San Diego Zoo Safari Park Raises Hopes of Saving Subspecies
A southern white rhino has become pregnant through artificial insemination at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park — giving hope for efforts to save a subspecies of one of the world’s most recognizable animals, researchers announced Thursday.
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Military Finds Multiple Failures Led to Deadly Niger Ambush
Multiple failures led up to the deadly Niger attack last October, but top military leaders said Thursday that none directly caused the overwhelming enemy ambush that killed four American service members and sent others fighting and running for their lives. “The direct cause of the enemy attack in Tongo Tongo is that the enemy achieved tactical surprise there and our...
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What We Know About the Toronto Van Attack Suspect
Details have begun to emerge about Alek Minassian, who was charged Tuesday with 10 counts of first-degree murder and 13 of attempted murder for driving a van into a crowded sidewalk in Toronto. Here is a look at the 25-year-old suspect in one of the worst mass killings in Canada’s modern history.
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Trump Seems Likely to Win Travel Ban Case at Supreme Court
The Supreme Court seemed poised Wednesday to uphold President Donald Trump’s ban on travel to the U.S. by visitors from several Muslim-majority countries, a move that would hand the president a major victory on a controversial signature policy. In the court’s first full-blown consideration of a Trump order, the conservative justices who make up the court’s majority seemed unwilling to...
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Travel Ban Case Is Justices' First Dive Into Trump Policy
The Supreme Court has so far had little to say about Donald Trump’s time as president, even as the nation has moved from one Trump controversy to another. That’s about to change. The justices’ first deep dive into a Trump administration policy comes in a dispute over the third and latest version of the administration’s ban on travel from some...
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UN Food Agency Boss Warns of Migrant Crisis Triggered by ISIS' Spread to Africa
The head of the United Nations food agency warned Monday that the relocation of Islamic State group members from the Middle East to Africa could trigger a massive new European migrant crisis. David Beasley, executive director of the World Food Program, said many of the militants who fled Syria amid the collapse of the Islamic State group’s self-described caliphate had...