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Inside the Dakota pipeline protest camp World

Inside the Dakota pipeline protest camp

KHAWAJA UMER FAROOQ Thursday, February 09, 2017

A few holdouts remain in freezing temperatures at the protest camp near Standing Rock Indian Reservation, as the Army Corps of Engineers grants…

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Walls of Shame : The US-Mexico Border Wall World

Walls of Shame : The US-Mexico Border Wall

KHAWAJA UMER FAROOQ Thursday, January 26, 2017

The structures, fences and walls that mark the border between the United States and Mexico as President Donald Trump reiterates his promise t…

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Barack Obama's farewell address World

Barack Obama's farewell address

KHAWAJA UMER FAROOQ Thursday, January 12, 2017

President Barack Obama has called on Americans to defend their democracy in his farewell speech in Chicago. "By almost every measure, Amer…

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Trump wins Electoral College vote World

Trump wins Electoral College vote

KHAWAJA UMER FAROOQ Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Donald Trump garners more than the 270 electoral votes required to officially win election as the next president, dashing long-shot hopes by de…

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Violence erupts at North Dakota pipeline protest World

Violence erupts at North Dakota pipeline protest

KHAWAJA UMER FAROOQ Wednesday, November 30, 2016

A protest of a four-state, $3.8-billion oil pipeline turned violent after tribal officials say construction crews destroyed American Indian bur…

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Cuban revolutionary icon Fidel Castro dies World

Cuban revolutionary icon Fidel Castro dies

KHAWAJA UMER FAROOQ Friday, November 25, 2016

Cuban revolutionary icon Fidel Castro died in Havana aged 90, his brother, President Raul Castro, announced on national television. "The com…

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