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Army Lt. Gen. John W. “Mick” Nicholson, Jr., says he will have a better sense of conditions within a few months if he is confirmed. “I’ve either been deployed to Afghanistan or supported the effort from various duty positions in the United States and...

“We were seated outside our home shortly after the Isha prayer when we heard gunshots and within a few minutes the invaders had arrived”, Malam Masa Dalori, a community leader, told AFP. ‘They came in Golf saloon cars and began to shoot sporadically.

His contribution made him the group’s top donor, followed by media mogul Haim Saban and his wife, Cheryl, who gave $3 million, and financier Donald Sussman, who gave $1.5 million.

On January 30, the USS Curtis Wilbur, a guided-missile destroyer, sailed within 12 nautical miles of Triton Island in the Paracels, which is controlled by China but also claimed by Vietnam and Taiwan.

“Kung Fu Panda 3” received a strong “A” rating from first-night moviegoers on CinemaScore and got a good 80 percent approval rating from critics on Totten Tomatoes.

In the Iowa caucuses, those who beat expectations get a boost in positive attention and those who don’t “get the opposite”, says John Wilkerson, professor of political science. “I’m running for president of the United States”.

At a Saturday rally in Dubuque, he expressed his usual confidence – “If we win Iowa we can run the table!” – while knocking Cruz, repeating his concerns about the senator being born in Canada and questioning his eligibility to be president.

Amnesty says Gen Mohammed was “in command of operations when the military executed more than 640 detainees following a Boko Haram attack on the detention centre in Giwa barracks on 14 March 2014”. Officials say, per the Times, that Boko Haram is resorting to such...

The FBI has released video of state police fatally shooting Finicum. A major-incident investigative team from Deschutes County, Ore., is reviewing the shooting.

The Government could push ahead with imposing a new contract on junior doctors if an agreement on pay and conditions cannot be reached in the next few weeks, a key figure in the talks has said.

The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday extended the list of territories on its no-go list for pregnant women.

While Denver police have made no arrests in the confrontation at the National Western Complex near Interstates 25 and 70, each biker club blamed the other.

Marcelo Castro, Brazil’s health minister, said the epidemic was worse than believed because in 80 per cent of the cases the infected people had no symptoms.

Everton have apparently had a £13.5m bid for striker Oumar Niasse accepted by Lokomotiv Moscow.

Scott stole the show during Sunday’s event at Bridgestone Arena, scoring two goals to help lead the Pacific Division to the championship of the three-on-three tournament. He seemed a bit stunned as he soaked everything in, from teammates lifting him on their shoulders while...