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Ban lauds Cameroon and Nigeria’s commitment to honour border demarcation ruling
Residents on the Cameroon-controlled side of the Bakassi Peninsula with Nigeria.
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Japanese React With Fear, Anger Over China Islands Dispute
The dispute between Japan and China over the ownership of a chain of islands in the East China Sea continues to escalate, with China boycotting a meeting of the IMF being held in Tokyo. A growing sense of fear over China's increasing strength is being reported in the Japanese capital.
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French Suspects Planned to Join Militants in Syria
French authorities say a group of suspected radical Islamists posed the biggest danger to France in years and were planning to join militants in Syria.
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Turkey Seizes Cargo from Syrian Plane Forced to Land in Ankara
Turkey says it has confiscated illicit cargo from a Syrian passenger plane that it forced to land in Ankara after entering Turkish airspace on a flight from Moscow to Damascus.
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Ban condemns coordinated bombings in Syrian capital, urges move towards dialogue
Remains of burnt buses outside a power plant in the Qaboun suburbs of Damascus, Syria, in June 2012.
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Panetta: Afghan Campaign 'Succeeding' Despite Attacks
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says after more than 11 years the war in Afghanistan is “succeeding,” and will not be derailed by the recent series of insider attacks or any other tactic the enemy might use.
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Ban pledges UN support to implement Government-rebel accord in Philippines
A youngster in Mindanao, Philippines.
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Self-Identified Nigerian Politician Questions Government Anti-Terror Strategy
A man, who identified himself as a Nigerian politician, an activist and opinion leader from northern Kano state, said the hunt for Boko Haram militants should not strictly be a military or security issue.
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MAFFS units set records this wildfire season, full of highs and low
Air crews in two C-130 Hercules aircraft from the 153rd Airlift Wing, Wyoming Air National Guard, follow a U.S. Forest Service lead plane during Modular Airborne Firefighting System training April 16, 2012, over Camp Guernsey Joint Training Center, Wyo. Air National Guard air crews recently wrapped up a near record breaking wildfire season, dropping more than 2.4 million gallons of fire retardant and water while battling wildfires in the western U.S.
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Florida Soldiers hit the waves for Key West exercise
A member of the Florida Army National Guard's Charlie Company, 3rd Battalion, 20th Special Forces Group, exits a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter during an airborne training exercise in Key West, Fla., Sept. 27, 2012.
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