Nobody cares

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What terrible things are going on in the world, that no one seems to know/care about?

 

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Nigeria Boko Haram crisis: Anger over second Izghe raid
24 February 2014

Gunmen believed to be from the Boko Haram group killed several residents and burnt down Izghe over the weekend.

A week earlier, 106 people were killed in a Boko Haram raid on Izghe.

Borno state Senator Ali Ndume told the BBC it was clear that a state of emergency imposed by the government to end the insurgency was not working.

More than 500 people had been killed in Borno in the last two months, he said.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-26322224

 

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This is Sharia.

Get used to it.

21 February 2014

An Ethiopian woman who says she was gang-raped in Sudan has been convicted of "indecent acts".

The woman of 18 was three months' pregnant at the time of the alleged attack.

She was arrested after video of her allegedly being sexually abused was circulated on social media.

Three men who admitted having sex with the woman and two who distributed the video were reportedly sentenced to being whipped.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-26286264

 

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24 Feb 2014
A Syrian rebel commander, who fought alongside al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden and was close to its current chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, was killed by a suicide attack in Aleppo, intensifying in-fighting between rival armed groups.

The killing of Abu Khaled al-Suri on Sunday in a suicide bombing in the al-Halq area of Aleppo was confirmed by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said he died along with six others when a fighter from the rival Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group blew himself up at an Ahrar al-Sham post in al-Halq.

Al-Suri's death occurred against the backdrop of bloody rebel infighting between an al-Qaeda-breakaway ISIL and an array of armed opposition groups.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/02/senior-al-qaeda-commander-killed-syria-2014223172557381478.html

 

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One more, this one, involves the threat of nuclear war.

Pakistan militant Maulana Masood Azhar resurfaces, ignites fears of attacks


Maulana Masood Azhar, the Pakistani Islamic hardliner blamed for an attack on India’s parliament that brought the nuclear rivals to the brink of war has resurfaced after years in seclusion, setting off alarm bells in New Delhi.

Twice since the end of December, authorities have issued an airport security alert, warning of an attempt by members of a Pakistan-based militant group called Jaish-e-Mohammad, or Army of Muhammad, to hijack a plane, with smaller airfields most at risk.

Officials have said the alerts followed reports of increased activity by Masood Azhar, the leader of the outlawed militant group.

Azhar was named by a court as the prime suspect in a 2001 attack on parliament aimed at taking top political leaders hostage. Fifteen people were killed, most of them security guards as well as the five men who stormed the complex.

http://newsindiatimes.com/pakistan-militant-maulana-masood-azhar-resurfaces-ignites-fears-of-attacks/

 

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But I bet everybody knows all about Miley Cyrus and Alec Baldwin.

 

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Did you miss this?

24 February 2014
A polio-like illness has afflicted around 20 children in California in little more than a year, officials say.

Authorities are at a loss to explain the outbreak of the condition, which causes severe weakness or rapid paralysis in one or more limbs.

The Los Angeles Times reported that the matter surfaced after a doctor requested polio testing for a child with severe paralysis in 2012.

Polio has been eradicated in the US and the child had not travelled overseas.

Since then, other cases have been reported throughout the state, with all patients suffering severe weakness or paralysis, which strikes rapidly and sometimes after a mild respiratory illness.

http://web.orange.co.uk/article/news/polio_like_illness_hits_california_children

 

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A photographer on the ground in South Sudan: A new nation, in crisis

February 26, 2014

800,000 refugees. Massive food shortages. Ongoing violence. As the world's newest country falls further into crisis, photographer Fabio Bucciarelli — on assignment for Al Jazeera America — documents the harsh realities

http://america.aljazeera.com/features/2014/2/south-sudan-crisis.html

 

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Syria gets worse.

Syrian extremists have seemingly live-tweeted the amputation of an alleged thief’s hand, according to Liz Sly and Ahmed Ramadan at the Washington Post.

Denounced by Al-Qaeda as too extreme, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has been battling other groups like Jabhat al-Nusra and the more moderate Syrian rebels for control of the unstable country.

But they still took the time to broadcast over Twitter what at least appeared to be an amputation.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/02/28/syrian-extremists-seemingly-live-tweet-the-amputation-of-a-mans-hand/