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Fake news turns deadly in India

Fake news turns deadly in India

In recent months, about two dozen people across India have been beaten to death by mobs driven to violence by what they've read on social media and messaging apps.
by Lauren Frayer

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Black Lives Matter protest disrupts MOA, airport travel; a dozen arrested

Black Lives Matter protest disrupts MOA, airport travel; a dozen arrested

A demonstration involving hundreds of people disrupted shopping at the Mall of America and affected travelers moving through the Twin Cities airport on one of the busiest travel days of the year.
by Tim Nelson, Riham Feshir and Doualy Xaykaothao

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Chaotic scene captured in Ferguson, Mo.

Chaotic scene captured in Ferguson, Mo.

Residents in Ferguson, Mo., have complained about what they called a heavy-handed police presence that began with the use of dogs for crowd control soon after Brown's shooting -- a tactic that for some invoked the specter of civil rights protests a half-century ago.

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South Sudanese in U.S. warn against ignoring conflict in their homeland

Minnesota is among a handful of states with large populations of people with roots in South Sudan. That community here is mobilizing to speak out against the violence erupting in South Sudan. Tom Crann spoke to Augustino Ting Mayai, who came to the U.S. as one of the so-called "lost boys" -- children displaced by the civil war there. Ting Mayai is Director of Research at the Sudd Institute, which advises the South Sudanese government on a variety of topics. He's a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and he's spent the last two years living and working in South Sudan's capital.
by Tom Crann

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A crisis in Egypt, and an uncertain future

A crisis in Egypt, and an uncertain future

Questions abound in the chaos, violence and political positioning that have followed the overthrow of Egypt's first democratically elected president.

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New rage keeps Somali boys off street: video games

New rage keeps Somali boys off street: video games

Video games are the new rage in Somalia, a first-world entertainment option for teenage boys that wasn't permitted when ultraconservative al-Shabab militants controlled the capital. The insurgents -- who were pushed out of Mogadishu last year by African Union and Somali troops -- banned recreational pleasures like movies and Nintendo.

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DHS extends protection for Somalis

The Department of Homeland Security is once again renewing the temporary protected status for some Somali immigrants living in the United States.
by Rupa Shenoy

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