Defection will not affect our chances – Ogun APC lawmaker

Mr Olakunle Oluomo, member, Ogun House of Assembly, on Saturday, said defection of some members of the House to other parties would not affect the chances of All Progressive Congress in the 2015 general elections.

Oluomo, who represents Ifo1 in the assembly, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abeokuta.

How Boko Haram Captured Missing Nigerian Schoolgirls' Hometown

An elder in the Nigerian town of Chibok detailed a terrifying account of what happened asIslamic militants captured the hometown of hundreds of schoolgirls who were kidnapped this spring.

The elder, who asked that ABC News withhold his name, said there was "terror and total panic" asBoko Haram swept into Chibok on Thursday night. He described “people running helter-skelter, screaming, [and] looking for children.”

Nigeria: Can Nigeria Build Effective Primary Health Care?

For the first time, medical officers, who are primarily custodians of healthcare of the citizens at the grassroots' Primary Healthcare Centres across the country, came together last week to brainstorm on the level of decadence at this tier of healthcare and how to move forward to ensure an effective care for over 70 per cent of Nigerians.

Opening the discussion was Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Michael Asuzu, in a presentation titled: "An effective primary healthcare as the bedrock of a healthy nation: Wither Nigeria?"

World Open: Nasir sets up last-32 clash with Ghoshal

KARACHI: Pakistan’s highest ranked Professional Squash Association (PSA) player, Nasir Iqbal, moved into the last 32 of the World Open after beating qualifier Charles Sharpes of England 3-0 at the Khalifa International Squash Complex in Doha, Qatar on Saturday.

Sharpes fought hard in the first game, but Nasir came out on top to clinch an early lead in the match. The remaining two games proved to be easy pickings for the Pakistani as he went on to triumph with scores of 13-11, 11-5 and 11-8 in 42 minutes.

He will now take on 14^th seed Saurav Ghoshal of India in their last-32 clash on Monday.

Meanwhile, Farhan Zaman crashed out of the event after losing 3-1 against world number 22 Egyptian Fares Dessouki in his opening-round match.

Despite ban, 'Rich Kids of Tehran' party on

Has ISIS peaked? Terror group suffers setbacks in Iraq

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U.S. muscle, money, influence pivoting to Asia, Obama says at G20

(CNN) -- U.S. President Obama opened his appearance at the G20 summit of world leaders in Australia with a speech that had to make Beijing think.The United States is a big part of the power balance in Asia and plans to throw more of its weight onto the scale, the president told a crowd at the University of Queensland in Brisbane."We will continue to deepen our engagement using every element of American power -- diplomacy, military, economic, development, the power of our values and ideals," he said.And the United States will band together with nations in the region. It will work toward giving them more heft -- so that big nations do not "bully the small," Obama said.That has been a common phrase used in reference to territorial disputes between China and other southeast Asian nations.

Obama, Down but Not Out, Presses Ahead

WASHINGTON — President Obama emerged from last week’s midterm election rejected by voters, hobbled politically and doomed to a final two years in office suffering from early lame-duck syndrome. That, at least, was the consensus in both parties. No one seems to have told Mr. Obama.

Rethinking the Happy Meal? Small prizes may get kids to pick up fruits and veggies at school.

Since the 1970's, when the Happy Meal was developed by a Midwestern advertising executive, McDonald's has made incentivizing food choices something of an art form. The little box of fast-food calories with a little toy surprise has proven to be so appealing to children that in 2010 San Francisco passed a law prohibiting toys from being sold with meals that fail to meet certain nutritional standards.

Canadian accused of 1980 Paris synagogue bombing lands in France

A Canadian academic accused of the deadly 1980 bombing of a Paris synagogue arrived in France on Saturday after losing his six-year legal battle against extradition to face charges for the notorious attack.

For Hannah Graham’s family, ‘nightmare’ leaves enduring uncertainty and loss

© Steve Helber/AP Photo In this Saturday, Oct. 18, 2014 file photo, Police block the road leading to the scene of a death investigation in connection with the disappearance of University of Virginia student Hannah Graham in Albermarle County, Va

Marlins' Giancarlo Stanton agrees to 13-year, $325M deal

Giancarlo Stanton is reportedly on the verge of finalizing the richest contract in baseball history - and to be a Miami Marlin for a very long time.

Hong Kong activists denied permit to go to Beijing

© AP Photo/Vincent Yu Tents set up by pro-democracy protesters are seen at an occupied area outside government headquarters in Hong Kong's Admiralty district in Hong Kong Friday, Nov. 14, 2014. Hong Kong student leaders plan to fly to…

Scientists listen, wait for comet lander signals

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BERLIN — The head of the European comet mission says scientists were listening for signals from the Philae lander Saturday morning, but think it is unlikely they will establish any kind of communication soon.

Controllers at the European Space Agency on Friday ordered the lander to perform a maneuver intended to pull it out of a shadow on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko so that solar panels could recharge the depleted batteries.

© ESAFile/AP Photo The picture released by the European Space Agency ESA on Nov. 12, 2014 was taken by the ROLIS instrument on Rosetta's Philae lander during descent from a distance of approximately 3 km from the 4-kilometer-wide (2.5-mile-wide)…

"We don't know if the charge will ever be high enough to operate the lander again," Paolo Ferri, ESA's head of mission operations, told The Associated Press.

"It is highly unlikely that we will establish any kind of communication any time soon, but nevertheless the orbiter will continue to listen for possible signals — the next time they will do so at 11 am (1000GMT, 5 a.m. EST) this morning."

On Thursday, Philae landed next to a cliff that largely blocked sunlight from reaching its solar panels.

Top U.S. general arrives in Iraq as military campaign expands

© Reuters/Phil Stewart U.S. Army General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, speaks with soldiers in Iraq November 15, 2014.

The top U.S. military officer, General Martin Dempsey, arrived on Saturday in Baghdad on an unannounced visit to meet U.S. commanders preparing to expand American assistance to Iraqi and Kurdish forces battling Islamic State militants.

Hellstorm: The Devil’s Cauldron

The Mass Rape of German Women
by the Red Army and its Allies

. . . by JA Sexton and Lasha Darkmoon

Two million German women were savagely raped and tortured at the tail end of WWII. No one has yet apologized for these horrific war crimes. Why not?

“In the German race there is nothing but evil. Use force and break the racial pride of these German women.Take them as your lawful booty. Kill!” 

— Ilya Ehrenberg, Jewish propagandist for the Stalin regime

This 6000-word article consists of two parts. Part 1, by Lasha Darkmoon, sets the scene and provides many factual details about rape atrocities against German women by Allied soldiers in the 1944-1947 period. Part 2, by JA Sexton, is a review of Thomas Goodrich’s Hellstorm: The Death of Nazi Germany (1944-1947). This brings to life in vivid detail all the horrors defeated Germany had to go through at the hands of the victorious Allies.

US fighting to overthrow Assad government, not ISIL: Analyst

Iraqi militiamen walk after a conference on fighting ISIS attended by Iraq's tribal leaders, the army and members of the government, at the al-Asad air base, in Iraq's Anbar province, on November 11, 2014. AFP/Ahmed al-Rubaye

The Iraqis have done it at last. It took some touches at the level of organization and tactic with the guidance of General Qassem Soleimani to say that ISIS is not invincible, that it is a bogeyman that was inflated deliberately, and that its victory is not inevitable. To understand this, skeptics only have to ask about the ‘epic’ battle in Jaref al-Sakher [Rocky Cliff], which Iraqis now like to call Jaref al-Nasr [Victory Cliff].

US monitoring Russian warships sent to Australia with Putin: Report

Russian warships are reportedly on their way into Australian waters.

The US military is reportedly monitoring a fleet of Russian warships in waters off Australia's northeastern coast after President Vladimir Putin arrived for the G20 summit.

The Australian reported on Friday that several American warships and a US submarine were observing the Russian warships.

The US surface warships keep watching on the four Russian vessels near Japan as they headed south, according to the report.

The US and the Australian Defense Force have been in close contact over the group’s progress, said the report.

The prospect of US-Russia nuclear war

Most Americans live in their myths, and these myths are immune to facts. Some Americans become angry when confronted with information inconsistent with their preconceptions. I began learning this back in the newsprint era from letters, and the lesson has continued from emails and comment sections on websites.

US weighs expanded CIA training for Syrian militants: Report

The United States is preparing plans to escalate the CIA’s role in arming and training anti-government militants in Syria, as they are suffering from low morale, a new report says.

Officials say the move is aimed at accelerating covert US support to “moderate” militant groups, while the Pentagon is preparing to establish its own training bases, The Washington Post reported on Saturday.

“We need a little more urgency in helping the moderates, and the agency was viewed as the best way to get that going fast,” said a senior US official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

23 arrested protesting Walmart low wages, working conditions

Police officers arrest a woman during a protest in front of a Walmart at a Pico Rivera intersection across a Walmart store near Los Angeles on Nov. 13, 2014.

Dozens of people protesting difficult working conditions and low wages at the world’s largest retailer, Walmart, were arrested on Thursday in the US state of California.

US suffering from racial segregation again: Ruby Bridges

US marshals escort six-year-old Ruby Bridges from William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, Los Angeles, in this Nov. 1960 file photo.

American civil rights pioneer Ruby Bridges has described the United States as a country that is again suffering from racial segregation.

The 60-year-old activist, who is known for being the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in the American South, says that her country is very much similar to the world she helped break apart 54 years ago.

The US government wants to pass new spying laws behind your back

In December 2012, the US Senate re-upped the NSA’s vast surveillance powers over the holidays when no one was paying attention.

Never underestimate the ability of the “do-nothing” US Congress to make sure it passes privacy-invasive legislation on its way out the door. In December 2012, the Senate re-upped the NSA’s vast surveillance powers over the holidays when no one was paying attention. In December 2013, Congress weakened video-rental privacy laws because Netflix asked them to and nobody noticed.

US-led coalition airstrikes failed to push back ISIL: Report

Smoke and flames rise over the Syrian town of Kobani after an airstrike by US-led forces seeking to dislodge the ISIL terrorist group from its weeks-long siege of the town on the Turkish-Syrian border.

The US-led coalition airstrikes on the ISIL militants have not repelled the terrorists’ attacks in Syria and Iraq, a report by IHS Jane's Terrorism and Insurgency Center (JTIC) shows.

Hagel orders multi-billion dollar revamp of US nuke force

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Friday ordered a multi-billion dollar overhaul of US nuclear forces after reviews uncovered serious flaws

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has announced a multi-billion dollar overhaul of US nuclear forces after reviews uncovered serious flaws.

Hagel told reporters on Friday at the Pentagon that there had been a "consistent lack of INVESTMENT and support" over "far too many years".

US police spent $11 million on suspect manhunt

Eric Matthew Frein exits the Pike County Courthouse with police
officers after an arraignment in Milford, Pennsylvania, October 31, 2014.

Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) spent approximately $11 million only to capture a survivalist charged with shooting two state troopers killing one of them.

The costly weeks-long manhunt in the Pocono Mountains to capture Eric Matthew Frein took the officers 48 days, local media reported on Friday.

The costs included pays for overtime and other benefits for as many as 1,000 troopers hunting Frein, the Philadelphia Inquirer cited a police spokeswoman as saying.

Bush: I don’t long for publicity now

Former US President George W. Bush says he does not criticize his fellow Republicans or President Barack Obama because “I really don’t long for publicity” now.

Bush, who is promoting his latest book, 41: A Portrait of My Father, made the remarks in an interview that broadcast on Thursday night on Fox News.

HEALTH DIGEST

Health Digest with Reese Andrea Anitubo and 48 others

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Stroke has a new indicator! They say if you forward this to ten people, you stand a chance of saving one life. Will you send this along? Blood Clots/Stroke - They Now Have a Fourth Indicator, the Tongue:

During a BBQ, a woman stumbled and took a little fall - she assured everyone that she was fine (they offered to call paramedics) ...she said she had just tripped over a brick because of her new shoes.

They got her cleaned up and got her a new plate of food. While she appeared a bit shaken up, Jane went about enjoying herself the rest of the evening.

Jane's husband called later telling everyone that his wife had been taken to the hospital - (at 6:00 PM Jane passed away.) She had suffered a stroke at the BBQ. Had they known how to identify the signs of a stroke, perhaps Jane would be with us today. Some don't die. They end up in a helpless, hopeless condition instead.

Civil rights figure: US divided by race again

NEW ORLEANS — Civil rights pioneer Ruby Bridges says America today looks a lot like the world she helped break apart 54 years ago: A nation with segregated schools and racial tension.