Global Week in Review: Scores Killed, Tens of Thousands Displaced in Malawi Floods
Nigerian Archbishop says West ignored massacre, plus more.
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A Nigerian Archbishop calls out the West for ignoring Boko Haram's recent massacre, plus more.— Patrice PeckMalawi's President Peter Mutharika has declared nearly one-third of the impoverished country a disaster zone after flash flooding killed scores of people, Al Jazeera reports. At least 48 people were killed and 23,000 displaced. Homes, crops and livestock were reportedly swept away in the heavy flooding, which left some homes completely underwater. According to Elina Kululanga, Malawi's director of meteorological services and climate change, flooding started last month and heavy rain is expected to continue. President Mutharika is appealing to the international community for assistance for the East African country. The floods have also wreaked havoc in neighboring Mozambique, where a group of 25 school children were swept away on Monday and 18 others were reported missing.(Ph...
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Nigerian Archbishop Says West Is Ignoring Boko Haram Attack - Western nations have been called out by a wide range of critics this week for ignoring the threat of Boko Haram and the militant Islamic group's recent massacre that reportedly killed 2,000 people. Ignatius Kaigama, the Catholic Archbishop of Jos, in central Nigeria, is the latest to accuse the West, BBC reports. In the BBC's Newsday programme, Kaigama urged the international community to show the same "spirit and resolve" it had done after the attacks in France.(Photo: AP Photo/Adamu Adamu)
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Pope Francis Tours Asia - Pope Francis recently kicked off a weeklong tour of Asia, aiming to grow the Roman Catholic Church’s following "on a continent that holds 60 percent of the world's population but only 12 percent of Catholics,” NPR reports. Thus far, the pope has named the first Sri Lankan saint. Priest Joseph Vaz was canonized on Wednesday during a seaside ceremony attended by thousands of people.(Photo: AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
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LRA Commander to Be Tried by ICC - According to AP, Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebel commander Dominic Ongwen will be brought by Uganda's military to the International Criminal Court in The Hague for trial. Ongwen has reportedly been charged with seven counts of alleged individual criminal responsibility, such as crimes against humanity, enslavement, murder and inhumane acts of inflicting serious bodily injury. Led by Joseph Kony and considered a terrorist group by many, the LRA is a militant movement that began in the 1980s as a tribal uprising. (Photo: ISAAC KASAMANI/AFP/Getty Images)
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French Security Forces Kill Paris Mass Shooting Suspects - A three-day terror rampage around Paris ended with the death of the two brothers who were suspects for a mass shooting at a satirical newspaper and an associate who held hostages at a kosher market to help them escape, AP reports. Said and Cherif Kouachi, both of whom have been allegedly linked to al-Qaida, killed a dozen workers at the Charlie Hebdo newspaper office on Wednesday. On Friday, at least seven people were killed, including three terrorists and four hostages. Sixteen hostages have since been freed, according to AP.(Photo: AP Photo/Michel Euler)
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Sri Lanka at Political Crossroads After Presidential Election - Sri Lanka’s longtime leader Mahinda Rajapaksa reportedly lost to former ally and Health Cabinet minister Maithripala Sirisena in the nation’s latest presidential election, NPR reported. Sirisena won 51.2 percent of the vote in “the most closely fought election in recent history,” according to BBC. Elections Commissioner Mahinda Deshapriya reported that the election was peaceful overall, despite a handful of isolated incidents. (Photo: AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
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Bad Weather Foils Retrieval of AirAsia Plane Tail - Strong currents and poor visibility have reportedly halted the recovery of the crashed AirAsia plane’s tail, which likely holds the flight’s black boxes — the crucial key to determining why the plane carrying 162 passengers vanished on Dec 28. Forty-one bodies have been recovered from the wreckage so far. The BBC reports that many more bodies could still be in the fuselage of the plane, which has yet to be located.(Photo: AP Photot/Adek Berry, Pool)
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Lebanon's New Visa Rules Raises Alarm - On Monday, the Lebanese government announced a series of unprecedented new visa measures aimed at decelerating the wave of Syrian refugees seeking asylum. The stricter entry procedures require Syrians wishing to enter Lebanon to provide documentation identifying their reason for being in the country, Al Jazeera reports. Since 1943 up until now, Syrians had been able to freely enter Lebanon. According to the BBC, the U.N. has called for clarification on whether the "most vulnerable refugees" escaping civil war in Syria can still gain access to the neighboring nation.(Photo: AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)
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U.S. Takes Mali Off Ebola-Screening List - Ebola-related airport screening procedures for travelers from Mali will end on Tuesday. Additionally, those travelers will no longer be required to enter the U.S. through one of five designated airports, the AP reports. The Center for Disease Control and Homeland Security reportedly permitted the lift because two 21-day incubation cycles have passed since the last patient infected with Ebola had contact with someone not wearing protective equipment.(Photo: REUTERS/Joe Penney)
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Two Men in US Face Charges in Failed Gambian Coup - The U.S. Justice Department recently released a statement accusing two U.S. citizens of Gambian origin of attempting to overthrow Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh last month. Cherno Njie, 57, and U.S.-Gambian dual national Papa Faal, 46, have been charged with conspiring against a friendly nation and conspiring to possess firearms, the BBC reports. "These defendants stand accused of conspiring to carry out the violent overthrow of a foreign government, in violation of U.S. law," Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement. "The United States is committed to holding them fully responsible for their actions." (Photo: AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, FILE)
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