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  • London attack Hunt on for terror clues

    A Londoner of Nigerian descent was identified Thursday as one of the two suspects who decapitated a British soldier. The terror strike prompted Prime Minister David Cameron to go into a huddle with top officials and the military put in place additional security measures. Michael Adebolajo, a 28-year-old Londoner of Nigerian descent, is one of the two suspects who hacked to death the British ...

  • Londoner of Nigerian descent suspect in terror attack

    Michael Adebolajo, a 28-year-old Londoner of Nigerian descent, is one of the two suspects who hacked to death a British soldier in London, a media report said Thursday. The two terror suspects are being held under armed guard at hospitals in London and one of them has been named by Sky News sources as Adebolajo. The vicious attack on the soldier took place Wednesday in Woolwich, southeast ...

  • India to train 500 Nigerians in vocational skills

    India wants increased partnership with Nigeria in education through institutional cooperation, content development, faculty exchange and joint ventures that would enhance the West African country's human resource devlopment, according to Indian High Commissioner Mahesh Sachdev. "Bilateral cooperation in education has had a proud history and remains a priority. A generation of Nigerians have ...

  • At Least 19 Soldiers Killed in Niger Attack

    Niger's government said at least 19 soldiers were killed Thursday in a gunbattle that followed twin bombings at a military base and a French-owned uranium mine. Security officials said the car bomb attack occurred outside a military barracks in the town of Agadez, located about 800 kilometers northwest of the capital, Niamey. A government spokesman said several attackers emerged from ...

  • Islamist bombers kill 19 in Niger seize hostages

    NIAMEY (AFP) - Islamist militants staged brazen twin car bomb attacks on an army base and a French-run uranium mine in Niger on Thursday, killing at least 19 people and taking several trainee army officers hostage in the impoverished west African nation, the government said.The unprecedented attacks were claimed by an Islamist group as revenge for Niger's involvement in a French-led ...

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The Hours [DVD]

The Hours [DVD]

Starring a trio of well-respected actresses and based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Hours is pure Oscar-bait; it wears its hearty ambitions on its sleeve, but never convinces that its about anything much beyond its own morbidity. There are two suicides, one suicide attempt, several emotional breakdowns, a couple of sexually confused kisses, plenty of familial tensionsbasically, al ... ...

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  • 20 soldiers die in Niger car blast

    23 May 2013 Twenty soldiers have been killed and another 16 injured when a suicide bomber detonated a car loaded with explosives inside a military installation in the city of Agadez ...

  • Islamists kill 20 in suicide attacks in Niger

    NIAMEY (Reuters) - Islamist suicide bombers struck a barracks and a French-run uranium mine in Niger on Thursday, officials said, killing 20 people and wounding dozens in attacks that showed armed unrest spreading across West Africa. In Agadez, the largest town in northern Niger, at least 20 soldiers were killed and 16 injured when suicide bombers attacked a barracks at dawn, Defence Minister ...

  • Nigerias NNPC and Exxon unit to tap bond market by 2016

    joint venture with a capacity of more than 550,000 barrels per day of crude oil, condensate and gas liquids. "From the years 2013 to 2015, we will continue to use the external financing option, but by the year 2016 we would switch to the bond market as an alternative source of ...

  • Suicide attacker takes Niger cadets hostage

    NIAMEY, Niger (AP) -- Niger's interior minister says that a suicide attacker, who penetrated a military garrison in the city of Agadez, has taken several cadets ...

  • London attackers British of Nigerian origin source

    LONDON (Reuters) - British authorities believe that two men accused of hacking a soldier to death on a London street in revenge for wars in Muslim countries are British of Nigerian descent, a source close to the investigation said ...

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