World Lens — Week in Review: May 1
U.S. proposes sanctions for Sudan, South Sudan and more.
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U.S. Draft Proposes Sanctions for Sudan, South Sudan - The United States circulated a draft resolution at the United Nations Thursday proposing sanctions for both Sudan and South Sudan if they refuse to comply with the African Union’s plans for peace. Also last week, the president of newly independent South Sudan told China's president that attacks by rival Sudan amount to a declaration of war on his country.(Photo: REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah)
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Jamaica’s Murder Rate Drops 30 Percent - Jamaican Minister of National Security Peter Bunting announced that the country’s murder rate has seen a 30 percent dip since the beginning of the year. “Hopefully, we are seeing the beginning of a trend and there are certain mechanisms in place to ensure that we don’t lose these gains that we have been picking up. In fact, all major crimes have been trending down over the past few months...but this is not enough,” Bunting said. (Photo: REUTERS/Hans Deryk)
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Twenty One Killed in North Nigeria Church Attacks - Gunmen attacked worship services at a university campus and a church Sunday in Northern Nigeria killing at least 21 people in coordinated assaults that saw panicked Christians gunned down as they tried to flee, witnesses and officials said. (Photo: AMINU ABUBAKAR/AFP/Getty Images)
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Former Liberian President Taylor Found Guilty of Crimes Against Humanity - Charles Taylor, the former president of Liberia and onetime powerful warlord, was found guilty of crimes against civilians in Sierra Leone during that nation’s civil war in the 1990s. (Photo: PASCAL GUYOT/AFP/Getty Images)
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Rupert Murdoch Called “Unfit” to Run News Corp. - As the result of a probe into the embattled media giant, News Corp., owned by Rupert Murdoch, British lawmakers determined that the media mogul was “not fit to run” an international company due to his alleged “willful blindness” about what was going on in his companies and publications.(Photo: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)
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