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Nigeria's government is negotiating the release of another 83 of the Chibok schoolgirls taken in a mass abduction two-and-a-half years ago, but more than 100 others appear unwilling to leave their Boko Haram Islamic extremist captors, a community leader said Tuesday.
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Americans work 25 percent more than Europeans, study finds
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Cambodian deportations alarm many in Twin Cities Hmong community
Hmong leaders are voicing alarm over diplomatic talks they fear could spur deportations to Laos for the first time since the Hmong started arriving here four decades ago.
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Hamas sentences alleged spy to death
A Hamas-run court in Gaza has sentenced a man to death for allegedly collaborating with Israel.
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Iraqi offensive to retake Mosul begins
Iraqi and Kurdish forces launched a long-awaited offensive Monday to drive ISIL out of the country's second largest city, but the operation could take weeks, if not months, and many fear a humanitarian crisis.
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Iraq PM: Operation to liberate Mosul has started
Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced Monday the beginning of an operation to clear the northern city of Mosul of Islamic State militants. This will be the biggest military operation in Iraq since American troops left in 2011.
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Scottish leader signals she will call for another independence vote
Tactics are aimed at putting political pressure on Britain's Theresa May.
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Afghan officials: More than 200 police, soldiers killed
Hundreds of members of Afghanistan's security forces have been killed recently fighting insurgent attacks on the main city in the southern province of Helmand, officials said on Friday.
Something is happening: Bob Dylan wins Nobel in literature
Bob Dylan, Nobel laureate. In the book world's equivalent of a Supreme Court ruling, the Nobel judges declared Thursday that Dylan is not just a rock star but a poet of the very highest order.
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List: U.S. Nobel Prize winners in literature
These Americans have been awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, the latest being Bob Dylan this year.
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Tyson Fury vacates heavyweight belts, loses boxing license
Tyson Fury's downward slide since becoming world heavyweight boxing champion plunged further Thursday when the British fighter relinquished his titles and had his license suspended over drug use and medical issues.
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Putin postpones visit to France amid diplomatic tensions
Russian President Vladimir Putin has indefinitely postponed a trip to France after Paris had revised its program for the visit and said it would talk about nothing else but the Syrian crisis.
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Minnesota nolol cusub 90 maalmood gudaheeda: Shaqaale kiis iyo qoys toddoba carruur leh ayaa mareen qaabka dib-u-dejinta qaxootiga
Intii ay socotay dooda dib-u-dejinta qaxootiga, adeege kiis iyo qoys dhawaan soo galay ayaa ku degdegsanaa isku-diyaarinta nolosha Minnesota.
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Colombian President. Santos wins Nobel Peace Prize
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to negotiate a peace accord with FARC rebels.
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Minnesotans charged, dozen arrests made in global sex sting
Seventeen people, including Minnesotans, have been charged with international sex trafficking in a scheme that stretched from Thailand to Belgium to the United States and produced nearly a dozen arrests on Monday.
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British historian tortured, killed for first edition of 'Wind in the Willows,' a story that urges kindness
By Travis M. Andrews Washington Post"The Wind in the Willows," first published in 1908, is a lovely tale by Kenneth Grahame of camaraderie, friendship and overcoming greed and excess.
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Twin Cities West Africans decry end to Ebola-era welcome
Local West Africans brace for the end to a program that allowed many to stay in the aftermath of the Ebola epidemic.
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