6 soldiers from the US-led NATO mission Died in Afghan helicopter.

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Kabul (AFP) – Six soldiers from the US-led NATO mission fighting Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan were killed in a helicopter crash on Tuesday, with NATO officials saying it was not a suspected militant strike.

However the Taliban immediately claimed responsibility for the deaths, using their main Twitter account to report that their fighters had shot down a US helicopter in the province of Zabul.

The incident was the single biggest loss of life for the NATO mission in Afghanistan since seven Georgian soldiers died when a suicide bomber blew up a truck loaded with explosives outside a base in Helmand province in June.

Hundreds dead, up to 20 thousands flee South Sudan clashes to UN

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Juba (AFP) – Hundreds of people have died and up to 20,000 others have fled to UN bases in days of fierce fighting within South Sudan’s army after an alleged coup bid, officials said.

The United States ordered non-essential embassy staff out of the country, the world’s youngest nation and awash with guns after decades of war, amid fears of a descent into wider ethnic violence.

In the capital Juba, gunfire still rang out into the early hours of Wednesday morning, an AFP reporter said.

“There are people walking in the city this morning, but it would be premature to say things are back to normal,” he said.

PDP Crisis deepens: 37 PDP Lawmakers Defect To APC

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37 members of the House of Representatives who were formerly under the umbrella of the Peoples’ Democratic Party have defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC)

The lawmakers said that they are joining the APC due to “division and factionalisation” within the ruling party. Decampees also said that their defection to the APC is in obedience to section 68, subsection 1G of the constitution.

Iyabo Obasanjo did not write 11-page letter to dad.

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 If you missed the letter, click here to see it.

NSA's goal is elimination of everyone's privacy worldwide - Greenwald to EU.

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The NSA’s ultimate goal along with its UK partner, the GCHQ, is to eliminate individual privacy worldwide, journalist Glenn Greenwald has told an EU inquiry.

Ex-Guardian journalist Greenwald testifies before EU Parliament over NSA

Glenn Greenwald, the former Guardian journalist known for publishing Edward Snowden’s leaks, is testifying before the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties and Home Affairs via video connection. He is participating in an inquiry into the NSA’s surveillance on EU citizens. Follow live updates here.

The inquiry was set up to discuss ratcheting up the security of the internet and telephone networks in the European Union.

Snowden is also expected to testify before the Civil Liberties Committee in January as part of the inquiry.

 RT

Ex-Guardian journalist Greenwald testifies on NSA spying before EU parliament. LIVE UPDATES

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Greenwald, the former Guardian journalist known for publishing Edward Snowden’s leaks, is testifying before the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties and Home Affairs via video connection, contributing to an inquiry into the NSA’s surveillance on EU citizens.

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  Free press: it is hard to overstate how important it was for me to speek out on surveillance. But UK gov't threatens journalists who cover surveillance prog - Greenwald
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West continues to put "overt pressure" on Ukrainian gov't - Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused the West on Wednesday of putting pressure on Ukraine to choose closer ties with Europe even though Kiev has accepted an offer of financial assistance from Moscow.
Russia is "surprised by attempts to put overt pressure on the Ukrainian government, which continue despite the decisions made in Moscow yesterday," Lavrov said in remarks to Russia's upper house of parliament.

Reuters

Russian-Ukrainian action plan 'provides President Yanukovych and his government with breathing space' - expert

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Gazprom will sell gas to Ukraine at 268.5 dollars per 1,000 cubic meters, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday. Also, Russia will convert 15 billion dollars worth of its National Welfare Fund - a rainy day fund - into Ukrainian securities to help it stave off financial crisis. The deal was signed after talks in Moscow between Mr Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovych. The issue of Ukraine joining the Customs Union was not discussed during the talks. The two presidents met in Moscow to chair the Russian-Ukrainian inter-governmental commission. Our source discussed it with Lilit Gevorgyan, Commonwealth of Independent States and Russia analyst at UK-based economic organization IHS Global Insight.

Barbaric: Commercial Bus Driver Rápes Passenger From 7p.m To 10a.m

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A commercial bus driver, identified as Emeka Ugwudiobi has been accused of ráping one of his passengers from 7 p.m. to 10 a.m. at gun point in an uncompleted building around Mayor Market, Enugu.
According to the prosecution counsel, Mr Francis Ajagu, the driver plies the New Market-Gariki route and the victim was one of his passengers.

On that fateful day, the driver noticed only the victim was remaining in the bus and drove to  an uncompleted building beside the Mayor Market and started ráping the victim.

Explosion Rocks Rivers state Deputy Governor’s office

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Rivers State Deputy Governor, Tele Ikuru. Police denied knowledge of the attack. A blast has hit the Rivers State government house, a government spokesperson said. The explosion occurred near the deputy governor, Tele Ikuru’s office in the early hours of Tuesday. There were no casualties, commissioner of information, Ibim Semenitari.

Ms. Semenitari said the explosion is suspected to have occurred after a dynamite was thrown into the building at about 3 am Tuesday.

Sweet Yoruba Actress,Lola Ajibola Loses Mum To Cancer!

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 Se-xy Yoruba actress, Lola Ajibola, the producer of Omoba Ajibade is bereaved! Her mother, Chief Mrs Folashade Agbeke Ajibola(Nee Onashile), died in the early hours of Monday 9th, December, 2013, at 67, the old woman breathed her last at the General Hospital, Ijebu Ode in the arms of one of her children and grandchildren, who confirmed her death.

Crime: Lagos Pastor Beats Accused Witch Woman To Death In Lagos Church [Phot'd]

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Tawakalitu died last November after a prolonged illness and under strange circumstances. Her death has strained the relationship between her family and her husband’s in whose custody she died after her mother was denied access to see her for a month.

Reportedly, Mrs. Oluranti Adesina, Tawakalitu’s mother said that Razak, his father and the leader of a white garment church where her daughter died, know something about the young woman’s strange death.

Heartless: Ghanaian Man In UK Stabs Wife to death For Flirting With A Nigerian [PICTURED]

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A husband has been jailed for 17 years after he killed his wife by stabbing her at least 15 times then running her over with his car because he thought she was having an affair with a neighbour.

Minta Adiddo sent Akua Agyeman a Christmas card as she was being treated in hospital, blaming the attack on 'devils', the Old Bailey heard.

The 32-year-old mother of two died two months after the brutal stabbing, which was witnessed by her five-year-old daughter. Adiddo, 38, was today given a life sentence after being convicted of murder, with a minimum term of 17 years.

60-Yr-Old Man Nabbed in Bed Making Love With 11-Yr-Old Girl Freed Bcos They Are in Love

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Culled from coloradonewsday
A court has annulled a five-year jail term for a 60-year-old man who was caught having sex with an 11-year-old-girl because they have a ‘romantic relationship’. The supreme court in the southern Italian town of Catanzaro ruled that it was a ‘real relationship’.
The young girl is said to be from a disadvantaged background and was in the care of a man who works for the town’s social services department.  However, police raided the man’s seaside villa to find the pair unclad in bed together.

SHOCKER: Commercial Bus Driver Rapes Passenger From 7p.M To 10a.M

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A commercial bus driver, identified as Emeka Ugwudiobi has been accused of defiling one of his passengers from 7 p.m. to 10 a.m. at gun point in an uncompleted building around Mayor Market, Enugu.

According to the prosecution counsel, Mr Francis Ajagu, the driver plies the New Market-Gariki route and the victim was one of his passengers.

On that fateful day, the driver noticed only the victim was remaining in the bus and drove to an uncompleted building beside the Mayor Market and started defiling the victim.

Israel sends 150 protesting African migrants back to jail

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Israeli police on Tuesday sent back to custody about 150 African migrants who had abandoned a desert detention centre in protest against a new law allowing them to be kept there indefinitely.

Aided by rights groups, the migrants had travelled to Jerusalem to demonstrate outside the Israeli parliament, which last week passed a law allowing authorities to hold illegal migrants in an "open facility" until they leave the country.  The Israeli government says that most of the 50,000 African migrants, mostly Sudanese and Eritrean, who have since 2006 crossed over the Egyptian border into its territory, are illegal job-seekers who threaten the Jewish state's social makeup.
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9/11 suspect removed from Guantanamo Bay prison hearing after outburst

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One of the men accused of planning the September 11, 2001 attacks was removed from a US military court on Tuesday after making an outburst about a secret CIA prison. Yemeni defendant Ramzi Binalshibh, accused of helping the hijackers enter the United States and of financing the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people, was ejected from a pre-trial hearing at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp on the judge's orders.

His removal came shortly after Binalshibh's lawyer suggested that guards at the US military prison in Cuba were deliberately depriving his client of sleep.

"He could not sleep at all last night because of the noise he is exposed to," said Navy Lieutenant Commander Kevin Bogucki. "He is too tired to pay attention."

Ukraine-China: 'third alternative'

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The Europe-Ukraine-Russia triangle may turn into a quadruple if China enters the game. Faced with a contracting labor market and limited credit resources, East and Central European countries approach Ukraine’s associated membership in the European Union with caution, fearing that it all may end up in Kiev claiming its fair share of the pie.

EU strategists are racking their brains over how to lure Kiev, while keeping East European member states less concerned about it.  Ukraine’s hopes to negotiate more favorable terms failed. When President Viktor Yanukovych requested 150 billion euros in aid to speed up the economy’s transition to the European technical standards, even “senior” EU members got scared. Europe just can’t afford it.

Islamic Jihad: is Islam the first target? (Must Read)

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Radical Islam, which today is growing in numbers all over the world, could ruin traditional Islam. The “Jihad for the purity of faith” proclaimed by the fanatics is trying to destroy not only the non-Muslim population of the planet, but even Muslims themselves. Radicalism has nothing in common with the Prophet Muhammad's religion and is founded on political ideology of people far from faith, experts are convinced.

A few days ago Syrian Islamists executed 15 peaceful residents of the town of Arda, located 40 km away from Damascus, which they seized. The bloodbath lasted for several hours. All people killed were Muslim. Such events today take place in many countries considered as purely Muslim.
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You're a liar, hypocrite & manipulator, Iyabo Obasanjo writes 11-page letter to dad.

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About fourteen days after he wrote an 18-page open letter to President Jonathan, former president Olusegun Obasanjo is now a recipient of an alleged open letter. Unconfirmed: His daughter, Iyabo obasanjo, has written him an 11-page open latter where she said'it is the conclusion of her communication with him for a lifetime '.

In the letter dated 16 December 2013 and exclusively obtained by vanguard newspaper, Sen. Iyabo Obasanjo described her dad as a liar, two faced hypocrite and a legendary women maltreater. She accused him of beating her mum when these were young and described him being an absentee father and grandfather.

She also said her father is decided to foist on President Goodluck Jonathan what no one would contemplate with him as president. She called him an egoistic craving for power and living a life where only men of low esteem and intellect thrive.

How do you say all this to your own father? Oh well, read the full letter after the break...