Nigeria Violence

2010-03-10T00:18:31Z

An unidentified man stands in front of a burned home in the village of Ku-got, Nigeria, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. More than 200 people died in central Nigeria in recent fighting between Christians and Muslims. (AP Photos/Jon Gambrell)

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Behind the scenes, crafting the US no-fly list

2010-03-10T00:30:29Z

<div id="subtitle">Behind the scenes, crafting the US no-fly list: A delicate, high-stakes and imperfect effort</div><div><p>It starts with a tip, a scrap of intelligence, a fingerprint lifted from a suspected terrorist's home.</p><p>It ends when a person is forbidden to board an airplane — a decision that's in the hands of about six experts from the

Nigeria: Soldiers open fire on youths

2010-03-10T00:15:25Z

<div id="subtitle">Soldiers open fire on youths in Nigerian town tense after religious killings</div><div><p>Witnesses say soldiers in a Nigerian town at the center of a spate of religious killings opened fire on a crowd of youths that had surrounded a cattle truck driving after curfew.</p><p>A nurse told The Associated Press on Wednesday that ...

Christians flee after Nigeria's massacre

2010-03-09T19:15:53Z

<div><p>Fresh gunfire has sent Christian villagers in Nigeria fleeing as a senior official accused the country's military chiefs of having ignored warnings about last weekend's massacre.</p><p>Residents of a mainly Christian settlement near the central city of Jos fled to a nearby police barracks for shelter at the sound of gunfire, said locals.</p><p>"We heard gunshots reverberating all over the neighbourhood and ...

Nigeria urged to end impunity after village massacre

2010-03-09T10:45:16Z

<div><p>JOS, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria must prosecute those behind a weekend massacre and address underlying issues of poverty and discrimination if it is to end a cycle of violence in the zone between its Muslim north and Christian south, rights groups and diplomats said.</p><p>The United Nations,

Christians flee after Nigeria massacre

2010-03-09T08:16:42Z

<div><p>Christian villagers in Nigeria fled their homes following threats of new attacks in the aftermath of a massacre, despite the presence Tuesday of troops designed to restore calm to the region.</p><p>As mass burials for some of the 500 victims of an orgy of violence took place near the city of Jos, condemnation poured in from world leaders and Acting President...

Troops on patrol after Nigeria ethnic massacre

2010-03-09T04:16:04Z

<div><p>Nigerian troops were on Tuesday patrolling tense villages near the troubled city of Jos after the massacre of more than 500 Christians as survivors fled the threat of further violence.</p><p>Women and children were hacked to death or burned alive in their homes in the latest massacre. Survivors have accused the authorities of intervening too late.</p><p>Thousands have been killed in recent years in strife i...

Appeals for calm after Nigeria sectarian slaughter

2010-03-09T02:21:32Z

<div><p>Nigerian troops were patrolling villages near the northern city of Jos Tuesday after the massacre of more than 500 Christians there that sparked international shock and outrage.</p><p>But survivors of the latest wave of inter-ethnic violence, in which women and children were hacked to death or burned alive in their homes, denounced the authorities for having failed to int...

Appeals for calm after Nigerian sectarian slaughter

2010-03-08T15:17:09Z

<div><p>UN chief Ban Ki-moon and Washington led calls for restraint on Monday after the slaughter of more than 500 Christians in Nigeria, as survivors told how the killers chopped down their victims.</p><p>Funerals took place for victims of the three-hou...

Nigeria must bring killers of Christians to justice: Clinton

2010-03-08T13:16:15Z

<div><p>US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called Monday on Nigeria to find and punish those responsible for the killings of more than 500 Christians in a wave of sectarian slaughter.</p><p>"We continue to urge all parties to exercise restraint," Clinton told reporters, adding the Nigerian government "should make sure the perpetrators are brought to justice."<...

World recoils as 500 slaughtered in Nigeria attack

2010-03-08T12:16:25Z

<div><p>UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Monday appealed for "maximum restraint" amid revulsion at the slaughter of more than 500 Christians in Nigeria, as survivors told how the killers chopped down their victims.</p><p>Funerals were taking place for victims of the three-hour orgy of violence in several Christian villages ...

Nigeria deploys troops as clashes kill 500

2010-03-08T02:15:57Z

<div><p>Nigeria's government has sent in troops to the flashpoint northern Jos region after attacks by machete-wielding gangs on Christian villages that officials say killed at least 500 people.</p><p>Local resident Frank Tatgun said two armoured vehicles and three military trucks had arrived in the village and scores of troops were now on patrol.</p><p>Author...

Obama to nominate retired Army general for TSA: source

2010-03-07T19:45:21Z

<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama plans to nominate retired Army Major Gen. Robert Harding to head the Transportation Security Administration after his first pick withdrew under ...

Up to 300 feared dead in central Nigeria clashes

2010-03-07T11:30:06Z

<div><p>JOS, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria's acting president Sunday ordered the security forces to hunt down those behind clashes involving Muslim herders and Christian villagers in which more than 300 people may have been killed.</p><p>The latest unrest in Nigeria's central Plateau state comes at a difficult time, with acting leader

U.S. airports expand passenger full-body screening

2010-03-05T14:45:35Z

<div><p>BOSTON (Reuters) - Airport officials on Friday showed off new X-ray scanning machines they will use to screen more passengers with full-body imaging as called for by security advocates, a step that has alarmed civil libertarians.</p><p>The $170,000 machines made by a unit of OSI Systems Inc show guards images of passengers' bodies throu...

Heavy losses threaten Nigeria's state oil firm: minister

2010-03-05T13:17:05Z

<div><p>Losses and liabilities totalling more than 2.5 billion dollars are pushing Nigeria's giant state oil firm NNPC towards extinction, Oil Minister Rilwanu Lukman warned on Friday.</p><p>The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation is "running at a loss of ...

Airport body scanners spreading across US

2010-03-05T11:22:22Z

<div id="subtitle">TSA announces 9 more airports to get body scanners to detect hidden explosives, contraband</div><div><p>The Transportation Security Administration on Friday announced nine more U.S. airports that will receive body-scanning technology, as the U.S. heightens its effort to detect hidden explos...

Nigeria, key to wiping out polio in Africa, makes gains

2010-03-05T09:53:36Z

<div><p>GENEVA (Reuters) - Nigeria, seen as the key to wiping out polio in Africa, has made impressive gains against the disease in the year since religious leaders backed vaccination, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.</p><...

In reversal, Obama aides eye tribunal for 9/11 suspects: report

2010-03-05T09:46:55Z

<div><p>In a U-turn, White House aides are poised to recommend holding military tribunals for the alleged co-plotters of the September 11 attacks, the Washington Post said Friday.</p><p>Self-confessed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his four...

US urges Nigerians to safeguard democracy

2010-03-04T15:16:44Z

<div><p>The United States on Thursday urged Nigerian leaders to ensure democracy and voiced concern about the lack of public information about President Umaru Yar'Adua's health.</p><p>"It is essential for the country's leaders to avoid any actions that will imperil Nigeria's last 10 years of democratic progress...

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