Boko Haram militants kill 48 fish traders in Nigeria attack

A screengrab taken on October 2, 2014 from a video released by the Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram and obtained by AFP shows group leader Abubakar Shekau ©- (Boko Haram/AFP/File)

Nearly 50 people have been killed in Nigeria in an attack by militant Islamist group Boko Haram on a group of fish traders, a union leader says

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Violence kills a child every five minutes, most outside war zones – U.N.

A young Syrian Kurdish refugee boy carries an infant after crossing the Syrian-Turkish border, near the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province September 23, 2014. REUTERS/Murad Sezer/Files

A young Syrian Kurdish refugee boy carries an infant after crossing the Syrian-Turkish border, near the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province September 23, 2014.                  REUTERS/Murad Sezer/Files

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Turkish Jewish couple murdered in their Istanbul home

Scene outside the Karokos apartment building in Istanbul, Turkey, where the couple was found stabbed to death, August 22, 2014. (Screenshot from Hurriyet TV/DHA)

Scene outside the Karokos apartment building in Istanbul, Turkey, where the couple was found stabbed to death, August 22, 2014. (Screenshot from Hurriyet TV/DHA)

Jak and Georgia Karako found stabbed to death; caretaker a prime suspect

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Exclusive: Iraq says Islamic State killed 500 Yazidis, buried some victims alive

Displaced families from the minority Yazidi sect, fleeing the violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjarl west of Mosul, arrive at Dohuk province, August 4, 2014.  REUTERS/Ari Jala

Displaced families from the minority Yazidi sect, fleeing the violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjarl west of Mosul, arrive at Dohuk province, August 4, 2014. REUTERS/Ari Jala

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Iraq crisis: The streets of Erbil’s newly Christian suburb are now full of helpless people

Thousands of Yazidi and Christian people flee to Erbil after the latest wave of Isis advances

Thousands of Yazidi and Christian people flee to Erbil after the latest wave of Isis advances.

Despite many fleeing to Erbil, there is fear Islamic State, formerly ISIS, will advance and even the Kurdish capital is not safe

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Second man arraigned in toddler’s slaying

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Kamiya French, 2, was killed before a man turned a gun on her father and shot a 12-year-old multiple times on Tuesday.                                            (Photo: Ryan Garza, Detroit Free Press)

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Ugandan troops kill 41 in battle with ‘tribal gunmen’

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Ugandan soldiers on patrol Photo: AFP/GETTY

Children are reported to be among those killed in a border clash between Ugandan authorities and ‘tribal gunmen’ near the Democratic Republic of Congo

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