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Kashim Shettima, the Governor of Borno state in northeast Nigeria, addresses a protest rally by Nigerians demanding the release of the school girls abducted from the remote village of Chibok. U.S. surveillance aircraft are flying over remote areas of nort

Besides hashtags, what can the US do to help Nigeria’s kidnapped girls?

Global Politics

There’s hashtag activism, and then there’s actually figuring out how to rescue the Nigerian girls kidnapped last month by the Boko Haram. The latter is proving difficult and is revealing the limits of American power and the tensions in Washington’s relationship with Nigeria.There’s hashtag activism, and then there’s actually figuring out how to rescue the Nigerian girls kidnapped last month by the Boko Haram. The latter is proving difficult and is revealing the limits of American power and the tensions in Washington’s relationship with Nigeria.

Taiwan’s students head to the streets with sunflowers to protest closer ties with China

Conflict & Justice

Taiwan’s students head to the streets with sunflowers to protest closer ties with China

Conflict & Justice

Thousands mourn a Turkish teenager who was on his way to buy a loaf of bread

Conflict & Justice

Thousands mourn a Turkish teenager who was on his way to buy a loaf of bread

Conflict & Justice
Anti-government protesters throw missiles during clashes with riot police at the Independence Square in Kiev, Wednesday.

Violence continues in Ukraine as the government launches an ‘anti-terrorism operation’

Conflict & Justice

Ukrainians are worried about what’s in store for their nation in the coming days. Violent clashes with protesters have left at least 25 dead. And government threats leave many fearful of an even more forceful response.

Escaping Homs

Many of those trapped in the Syrian city of Homs are finally getting out

Conflict & Justice

At least 1,100 people have been evacuated from Homs, a city that has been under siege for nearly three years during Syria’s civil war. But twice as many are still left in the city, either too sick or scared to leave. And a UN official says those evacuated are often just “a bag of bones.

A car burns as anti-government protesters clash with police in Sarajevo.

Why Bosnians are so angry at their government

Conflict & Justice

A week of unrest has shaken Bosnia-Hercegovina. Nearly 20 years after the end of the civil war there, people have had enough of government corruption and incompetence.

Ukraine waits in suspense, and China blocks embarrassing details of secret bank accounts

Global Scan

Ukraine’s protesters suspend clashes to negotiate with President Viktor Yanukovich, while China’s leadership scrambles to block the web and keep their secret offshore bank accounts from being revealed to Chinese citizens. Curling gets fancy at the Sochi Olympics and South Korea welcomes Canadian hockey players in its bid to qualify for the next Winter Olympics. All that and more, in today’s Global Scan.

Leaked pictures from a man who allegedly served as a military police and was tasked with photographing the dead bodies brought to the military hospitals controlled by the Syrian regime during the civil war.

Investigators say the photos from Syria show industrialized, systematic killing

Conflict & Justice

New evidence was released this week of alleged war crimes by the regime of Syrian leader, Bashar al-Assad. The evidence took the form of photos taken by the regime itself to document 11,000 deaths. They indicate widespread torture, starvation and execution of prisoners.