While Western media has been transfixed by the attacks and hostage taking conducted by Islamic extremists in Paris in Nigeria 39 s northern Borno state another Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram has been conducting an unprecedented rampage this week that may have claimed as many as 2 000 lives

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Human rights groups deplores 'silence of the international community' in face of war crimes.

Three-term New York Governor Mario Cuomo passed away on New Year 39 s Day at the age of 82 only hours after his son Andrew Cuomo was inaugurated in Manhattan for a second term as governor ldquo He couldn rsquo t be here physically today my father rdquo Andrew Cuomo said during his inaugural a

Watching a Vatican-brokered diplomatic breakthrough in De-cember that may lead to the normalization of relations between the United States and the island nation of Cuba, Eusebio Mujal-León was hardly a disinterested bystander. A professor at Georgetown University, Mujal-León is the director of a G

Watching a Vatican-brokered diplomatic breakthrough in December that may lead to the normalization of relations between the United States and the island-nation of Cuba Eusebio Mujal-Le n was hardly a disinterested bystander A professor and former Chair of the Department of Government at Georgetow

American Alan Gross has been released in an apparent exchange with Cuba that has allowed the United States to proceed with a historic normalization of relations with Cuba after decades of hostility suspicion and economic embargo that has previously been lamented by Vatican officials as unproductive

Two years after a school shooting in Newtown Conn horrified the nation not much has changed in terms of U S gun laws and the number of weapons in circulation in the United States has only increased Worst of all according to one gun-control advocacy group 94 other school shooting incidents ha