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US compensates Cameroon family for child killed by UN car The US has compensated the family of a Cameroon boy who was struck and killed by a vehicle in UN Ambassador Samantha Power's motorcade. The ambassador's convoy was moving at high speed when the seven-year-old was fatally hit in April. The US provided the family with 1m Central African francs (£1,257). The boy's family also received two cows, flour, onions, rice, salt, sugar, soap and oil, according to the Associated Press news agency. The US said it would also build a well to provide fresh drinking water for the boy's community, located near the northern city of Mokolo, according to state department officials. Advertisement Department spokesman Jeffrey Loree described the contribution as a "compensation package commensurate w...

‘I am fed up with this evil’: How an American went from Ivy League student to disillusioned ISIS fighter A member loyal to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) waves an ISIL flag in Raqqa June 29, 2014. (Stringer/Reuters) By Adam Goldman June 30 at 6:00 AM In late October 2014, the FBI received an unusual email from a young man named Mohimanul Alam Bhuiya. Bhuiya, then 25, had joined the Islamic State. Now the longtime Brooklyn resident was desperate and looking for a way out. He wanted the FBI to rescue him. “I am an American who’s trying to get back home from Syria,” he wrote in his email, according to federal court documents unsealed last month. “I just want to get back home. All I want is this extraction, complete exoneration thereafter, and have everything back to normal with me and my family.” He added: “I am fed up with this evil.” Why the Islamic State propaganda arm is more important than its fighters ...

Nigeria’s Buhari Unconvinced By Devaluing Naira After Currency Plunge "I fail to appreciate the economic explanation," said the Nigerian president. Nigeria's Buhari Plans Talks With Delta Leaders Amid Increasing Pipeline Attacks Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari says he is not convinced of the benefits of removing a currency peg that has seen the value of the co...

Russian FSB guard attacked U.S. diplomat outside Moscow embassy In 2013, U.S. diplomat Ryan C. Fogel was briefly detained by the Russian security services and then ordered to leave the country . (Handout/Reuters) By Josh Rogin June 29 at 7:01 AM In the early morning of June 6, a uniformed Russian Federal Security Service ( FSB ) guard stationed outside the U.S. Embassy in Moscow attacked and beat up a U.S. diplomat who was trying to enter the compound, according to four U.S. officials who were briefed on the incident. This previously unreported attack occurred just steps from the entrance to the U.S. Embassy complex, which is located in the Presnensky District in Moscow’s city center. After being tackled by the FSB guard, the diplomat suffered a broken shoulder, among other injuries. He was eventually able to enter the embassy and was then flown out of Russia to receive urgent medical attention, administration officials confirmed to me. He rem...

The Best Effing Chicken Recipe Ever — Seriously Finding a foolproof recipe for a kitchen staple like chicken is kind of like finding the holy grail these days. But today, you just might be in luck. Our friends at GFF Magazine have shared with us what they think could be the best chicken recipe . . . EVER. We tried the GFF Mag chicken recipe ourselves and discovered that it really does create a supercrisp skin with flavorful, moist meat. It's rare that we find a recipe so revolutionary that we feel obligated to make sure everyone knows about it. But this chicken is that and then some. James Beard Award-winner and two-Michelin-star chef Daniel Patterson shared it for our Winter 2015 issue , where he finished it with fried herbs and an herb vinaigrette. (It's genius.) But the simple two-ingredient, one-minute-prep chicken is a revelation all by itself, especially because it's the easiest recipe ever, feeds six for under $15, and every piece is th...

AP reporter's terrifying trip on 1,000-foot-high glass slide View photos LOS ANGELES (AP) — I’ve jumped out of a plane from 13,000 feet. I’ve ridden 400-foot-tall roller coasters that top speeds of 100 mph, and I once found myself using my fingernails to clutch the side of a rock face way too steep to climb without gear. Heights have never fazed me. Until the Skyslide, a terrifying glass tube on the outside of the U.S. Bank Tower in downtown Los Angeles. It’s open to the public Saturday, and journalists were given an early chance to try it out. Perched 1,000 feet above the ground on the side of the tallest skyscraper west of the Mississippi, the 360-degree glass slide is utterly terrifying. It’s is nearly a straight shot down, except for a small turn at the beginning that causes riders to bump against the side of the glass, much to their horror. ...

Brexit: Nigeria’s Buhari Regrets Cameron Resignation The Nigerian president said he hoped bilateral relations would flourish "despite the outcome of the referendum." Your browser does not support HTML5 video Play Pause 0 % 00:00 / 00:00 The Great British Brexit Battle: How It Happened Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari expressed his regret at th...

No, I Can't Sit Down: What It's Like Having an Open Wound that Will Never Heal Was this how it was going to be for the rest of my life? Confined to my house, buried alive in paper towels? There I was, taking my final bow after 10 years of medical hurdles. I had done it. I actually wrote a one-woman musical about how I literally lost my stomach (when it ruptured in the operating room) and gained a story, appropriately titled, “Gutless and Grateful.” It was a big deal to finally compile all of the journaling I had done for six years, unable to eat or drink, into a kind of “script” of my life. This was a big full-circle moment, complete with song, dance, and dialogue. After nearly losing my life at 18-years-old , I was now singing and dancing about it, and hopefully inspiring others. This was going to be the new beginning of things to come. I have a segment in my solo show where I explain how obsessed I became with food when I was unable to eat. I was...

Bring Back Our Girls demands news of escaped Chibok girl FILE- In this Thursday, May. 19, 2016 file photo, Amina Ali, the rescue Chibok school girl, sits during a meeting with Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential palace in Abuja, Nigeria. Nigeria's Bring Back Our Girls movement demanded Wednesday, June. 22, 2016 that the government provide news of the only one of 219 kidnapped schoolgirls to escape the clutches of the Boko Haram extremist group. (AP Photo/Azeez Akunleyan, File) syndication.ap.org LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Even family haven't been able to see her. Nigeria's Bring Back Our Girls movement is demanding that the government provide news of the only Chibok schoolgirl among 219 kidnapped to escape the clutches of Boko Haram Islamic extremists. "Even this morning people came to my house asking if I had been able to find out her whereabouts. It's outrag...

Texas Mom Wakes Up From Jaw Surgery With a British Accent o correct an overbite, and while she got her new smile, she got something she did not plan for: a British accent.Lisa Alamia was diagnosed with foreign accent syndrome, an extremely rare speech disorder that alters a person's speech so that he or she seems to speak with a foreign accent. When Alamia underwent lower-jaw surgery in December 2015 and returned home with a British accent, her three children thought she was kidding. "I was very shocked," she told ABC News. "I didn't know how to take it. I was very confused. I said 'Ya'll' all the time before the accent. Once I got the accent, I started noticing I'd say, 'You all.'" Doctors estimate that the speech disorder has affected fewer than 100 people in 100 years worldwide. The condition is most often caused by a brain injury , but Alamia's neurologist said everything came back normal after a...

Nigerian Militants Claim The President Faces A Military Coup The Joint Niger Delta Liberation Force (JNDLF) issued a statement on Wednesday claiming that some of the top members of Nigeria’s military had approached the group and asked them to continue its attacks on oil installations. The JNDLF said that the officers in question wanted to use the attacks as justification to overthrow President Muhammadu Buhari. General Akotebe Darikoro, who is the “Commander, General Duties, Joint Revolutionary Council, JRC, of JNDLF” stated : “We are constrained to let the cat out of the bag today that President Muhammadu Buhari should be wary about the security of this country as some military men are making move to remove him from power by instigating civil unrest in the country.” The JNDLF stated that some “top military men” approached the group through civil agents, asking the group to “cause and continue” attacks on pipelines in the region. The JNDLF...

Parents Who Refused to Abort Baby with Brain Outside Skull Open up About Son's Transformative Surgery: 'You Can Feel His Will to Live' It's been a month since 7-month-old Bentley Yoder underwent surgery to place his brain back into his cranium – and the strong baby who is currently in recovery has a future that is "as bright as his eyes," according to his parents, Sierra and Dustin Yoder. Bentley was born with a rare congenital disorder called encephalocele , in which a sac-like protrusion of the brain, covered by thin membranes, sits outside the skull. Doctors originally told Sierra and Dustin, who live in Sugarcreek, Ohio, that their son would not survive long after he was born. "We were unimaginably shocked when we got the dire prognosis," Sierra tells PEOPLE. "The specialist gave us no hope that he would ever live, breathe or thrive. It was gut-wrenching and nerve-wracking to think I was going to have our baby, ju...

Motorist in Car Packed With Guns Told Cops He Was Rushing to Save Teen, Sources Say A motorist stopped with a trove of guns and knives in his car while heading into the Holland Tunnel en route to New York City claimed to police he was rushing to "rescue" a teenage girl who recently overdosed, sources said. Police recovered seven guns — including rifles and handguns — as well as four knives, 10 clips of ammunition, body armor and a military-grade helmet from the bright-colored truck owned by John Cramsey, a police source said. The number of weapons in the car raised suspicions, and the Joint Terrorism Task Force was called, but two law enforcement officials told ABC News there does not appear to be a link to terrorism. The reason for the large number of weapons was not immediately clear. View photo . An image of the vehicle seized by police at the New Jersey side of Holland Tunnel, on June 21, 2016. Cramsey was stopp...

80-Year-Old Body Builder: 'Age is Nothing But a Number' Ernestine Shepherd is an octogenarian bodybuilder who just won’t stop inspiring. (Photo: Getty Images) One of the world’s oldest female body builders,  Ernestine Shepherd , just gained another year in what she’s called her “long happy journey” of life. Now 80, the fitness trainer, model, competitive body builder, and new author celebrated her June 16 birthday with a Facebook post declaring her continued determination, dedication, and discipline. “I am 80 years young today and I thank God for bringing me this far. I’m still determined, I’m still dedicated and I’m still disciplined to be fit!” Shepherd wrote, inspiring more 18,000 likes of encouragement. After being named the oldest female body builder by the Guinness Book of World Records in both 2010 and 2011, Shepherd began to publicly share the story of how she came to live a life of tenacity and perseverance...