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5 Key World News Stories

5 Key World News Stories   At Least  43 Police Officers Killed  in Counter-Terrorism Raid in Mindanao Government officials in the Philippines said Monday at least 43 members of the elite Special Action Force were killed in a counter-terrorism raid, making it the...

What we are reading

International News Coverage   Middle East, Terrorism and Counterterrorism   Planned Flogging of Saudi Blogger Raif Badawi Postponed Again Ian Black / The Guardian The planned flogging is being suspended after a medical committee assessed that he should not...

Paris, in a DoubleTweet with Nigeria

[ by Charles Cameron — what’s the value of a human life in tweets, in column inches, in my attention span? ] . I really don’t have much to say — I’ve lived a year in Paris, have never been to Nigeria, am human. "Dead bodies are...

Sibling pea rivalry? So same, so very different

[ by Charles Cameron — a battle of the hashtags re the Chibok schoolgirls, with some background first, and an aside re Carl Jung afterwards ] . ** I have talked about what I like to call “sibling pea rivalry” here before: we’re up against the...

The ‘Franchising’ of Boko Haram

Another piece on Boko, this one that I had been working on with Sofia long before the Chibok girls kidnapping, but lands now for my Institute’s magazine publication RUSI Newsbrief. For those eager to see me talking about foreign fighters, I participated in a...