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Editor Fears Paris Attack Will Fuel Extremism On The Far Right

10:01pm January 10, 2015

France is reeling from attacks by Islamist extremists this week. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Natalie Nougayrède, former executive editor of Le Monde, about the future of French media and culture.

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A group of Nigerian traditional hunters and vigilantes gather on vehicles on their way to engage Boko Haram militants in Mubi from Yola, Adamawa State, in November. The hunters have being assisting the Nigerian military in their fight against the Islamic

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Reports Of Boko Haram-Led Massacre In Captured Nigerian Town

6:48pm January 10, 2015

by Scott Neuman

Baga, in the country's northeastern Borno state, was seized a week ago. Amnesty International says that as many as 2,000 people may have been killed by the Islamist extremists in recent days.

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France Still Uneasy After 'Charlie Hebdo' Attacks

6:47pm January 10, 2015

France remained on edge Saturday as security forces continued their search for a woman described as the partner of one of the gunmen. NPR's Arun Rath talks to reporter Lauren Frayer in Paris.

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A large section of the AirAsia Flight 8501 tail was recovered from the sea floor and placed on the deck of a rescue ship in the Java Sea on Saturday.

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AirAsia Tail Recovered, But No Sign Of 'Black Box' Recorders

6:45pm January 10, 2015

by Scott Neuman

The large, red piece of debris emblazoned with the word "Asia" was lifted from the bottom of the Java Sea using inflatable balloons.

A police officer carries flower tributes at the site of Friday's attack on a kosher market in Paris, France.

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Authorities Search For Clues To Deadly Attacks In Paris

6:03pm January 10, 2015

by Scott Neuman

Reports now indicate that Hayat Boumeddiene — a woman initially thought to be part of Friday's siege of a kosher supermarket in Paris — may have left France in early January.

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Who Carried Out The Paris Attacks?

6:02pm January 10, 2015

by Scott Neuman

Three assailants who allegedly carried out two separate attacks in and around the French capital this week were reportedly linked by religious zealotry and a 2010 prison-break plot.

Editor Muhammad Bekjanov has been in an Uzbekistan prison since 1999, according to Human Rights Watch.

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Courted By The U.S. And Russia, Uzbekistan Ignores Critics

4:35pm January 10, 2015

by Corey Flintoff

Uzbekistan has been a key partner for the U.S. in the Afghan war. Now that the U.S. role in that war is winding down, will Uzbekistan's poor human rights record become more of an issue?

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People paying tribute to victims in front of HyperCacher supermarket at Porte de Vincennes, a day after a gunman took hostages and opened fire.

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Rallies In France Prelude To Paris March Planned For Sunday

3:25pm January 10, 2015

by Scott Neuman

Today's gatherings across France are a prelude to a unity march planned for Sunday in Paris that is expected to bring two dozen world leaders and thousands of participants.

Smoke rises from a building in Dammartin-en-Goele, northeast of Paris, where two brothers suspected in the attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo were cornered by police. The suspects, Said and Chérif Kouachi, were killed.

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French Woman Believed To Be Gunmen's Associate Is Still At Large

11:32am January 10, 2015

by Dina Temple-Raston

French officials are searching for Hayat Boumeddiene, who they say was involved in the killing of a policewoman in Paris on Thursday and possibly a later hostage-taking.

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Nigerian Forces Fight To Free Town From Terrorists

11:31am January 10, 2015

by Ofeibea Quist-Arcton

Hundreds are feared killed after Boko Haram militants seized the northeastern Nigerian town of Baga. Nigerian government forces are battling to regain control of the town and nearby base.

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