* Over 60 women and girls escape from Boko Haram in Nigeria; more than 200 girls remain kidnapped. * Russia’s minister of culture urges Russians to shun other languages and study Russian more. * Some Russians experience buyers’ remorse after being asked to personally subsidize Crimea. * Frozen soundtrack is on course to
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* Blaming Iran for financing a bus bombing that killed his daughter, a New Jersey father helped uncover an international terror banking scheme. * The behind-the-scenes story of how a hacker uncovers Russia's secret money transfers to Syria's government. * Syrian TV reports on the assassination of
* Blackwater’s Iraq ops chief threatened to kill a State Dept. official in charge of investigating the heavily criticized security provider. * Sunni group leading insurgency in Iraq declares a new caliphate stretching from Iraq's Diyala province to Syria's Aleppo. * Disturbing new footage shows the violence that
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* White House asks Congress for $500m to train and equip "moderate" Syrian rebels. * Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova tiptoe away from Russia with new EU pact. * Henry Louis Gates on black slave owners—a variety of black "masters," with a variety of motivations. * Inside a physician-assisted suicide.
* Detroit water authority turns off water at 3,000 households; residents ask the UN to intervene. * The traditional medicines of human rights activism—exposés, media attention, and pressure...are falling short. * More than 100 cities and counties have refused to honor the ICE's requests to detain undocumented immigrants.
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* Many Turks now blame the Turkish government for enabling the rise of ISIS and other extremists in Syria. * British Airways sued by man who was sent to Grenada, not Granada—and it's happened before. * None of the jobs on Forbes' list of "best 12 jobs for
