World Lens — Week in Review: Aug. 8

Jamaica turns 50 and Beyoncé joins ranks with the U.N.

Boko Haram Balks at Obama’s Terrorist Label - A suspected leader of Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram lashed out at President Obama in an online video after the U.S. government labeled him a "global terrorist.”(Photo: BBC News)
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Beyoncé Supports World Humanitarian Day - The R&B diva released a PSA last week in support of the United Nations’ World Humanitarian Day to be held on Aug. 19."It's high time we rise together," she says. "Do one thing for another human being — nothing is too small. It begins with each of us. Make your mark and say 'I was here.'"(Photo: World Humanitarian Day, whd-iwashere.org)London Black Locals Feel Forgotten Amid Olympic Hoopla - Residents from some of London’s most ethnically diverse communities say that they feel overshadowed and inconvenienced by the Olympics, despite efforts from the London Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games. "They should have done this place up for the Olympics," Finsbury Park resident Michael Johnson told The Root. "We don't get a lot out of the games at all." (Photo: Ryan Pierse/Getty Images)

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Boko Haram Balks at Obama’s Terrorist Label - A suspected leader of Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram lashed out at President Obama in an online video after the U.S. government labeled him a "global terrorist.”(Photo: BBC News)

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