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Seven Times Lady Grantham Completely Embarrassed Herself in Sierra Leone
An errant charity trip to Sierra Leone may have just ruined Downton Abbey forever. Elizabeth McGovern, who plays Cora, the Countess of Grantham on the hit British show Downton Abbey, went to Sierra...
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How Syria Did -- and Did Not -- Hang Over the Davos Conference
DAVOS, Switzerland — A group of aid workers and former refugees took over the basement of a Davos school, spooled out fake barbed wire, put up tents and corrugated metal walls and laid down straw on...
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Civil War Came to London, and You Won't Believe What This Little Girl Did Next
Actually, you will. After her neighborhood turned into a war zone, she fled along with her parents. They became refugees, scavenging for food and dodging gun fire. They became sick, and their diseases...
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South Sudan Wants (Some) Foreign Aid Workers Replaced
As the world's youngest nation, and one on the brink of famine, South Sudan doesn't seem like it's in a position to turn away international assistance. But that's what some officials in Juba seem to...
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Colonial Lines Drawn Again for Ebola Aid
When Ebola first hit rural Guinea last April, panicked villagers spread conspiracy theories that the virus was nothing more than a neocolonial ploy to weaken already marginalized ethnic groups. That...
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Former Rwandan Official Worries That Kagame's Administration Is Backsliding...
This story was updated on 9/30/2014 at 11:17 a.m. When Burundian fishermen first discovered bodies in Lake Wreru on the border of Rwanda this July, the Rwandan government quickly denied involvement in...
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Aging Population Forces Disaster Planners to Adapt Strategies
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The U.S. Could Learn a Lot About Domestic Policing From What it Preaches Abroad
When El Salvador emerged from more than a decade of civil war in the 1990s, the United States helped set up a training program for the country's new National Civilian Police as part of the...
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Nigeria to Washington: Take Your Military Aid and Shove It
Just weeks after the Nigerian ambassador to Washington blasted the U.S. military for not offering enough assistance to weaken Boko Haram, the Nigerian government canceled an American-run training...
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