en-ng-hotdailynews: 2015-06-17 Nigeria World

African campaigners urge end to "scandal" of child marriage in a generation
Reuters Africa
LONDON, June 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - It's a scandal that any family in a continent as rich as Africa, with its vast oil and mineral wealth, should be so poor they feel forced to sell their daughter, the African Union's (AU)goodwill ambassador on child ...

Women Human Rights Defender On Efforts to End Child Marriage   AllAfrica.com
Is this the beginning of the end of child marriage?   CNN
MISA celebrates the Day of the African Child, 2015   StarAfrica.com
Leadership Newspapers
NTV Uganda
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Tunisia: Train Strikes Truck, Killing 18
New York Times
A Tunisian passenger train smashed into a semitrailer truck racing to cross the tracks early Tuesday, killing 18 people as two cars derailed. At least 86 people were injured when the speeding train hit the truck outside the town of Fahs, southwest of the capital, ...

18 dead, 98 hurt in Tunisia train collision with lorry   Daily News & Analysis
17 dead as train hits truck blocking tracks in Tunisia   Telegraph.co.uk
18 dead, 98 hurt in Tunisia train crash   Sky News Australia
The Punch
Arab News
Wall Street Journal
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Donald Trump begins 2016 bid, citing his outsider status
Washington Post
NEW YORK — Inside the auditorium of Trump Tower — past the Trump Bar, the Trump Grill, the Trump Cafe and Trump's Ice Cream Parlor, beside the glass encasements selling Donald Trump neckwear and holding the basket of Donald Trump books — the ...

Real estate mogul Donald Trump says he is running for US president   Sydney Morning Herald
Mexican government calls Trump's comments 'prejudiced and absurd'   Reuters
In Iowa, Donald Trump takes his show on the road   CNN
CTV News
The Indian Express
New Zealand Herald
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As Putin Talks More Missiles and Might, Cost Tells Another Story
New York Times
KUBINKA, Russia — They call it “Russia's military Disneyland,” and the underlying idea that Russia will soon field a high-tech, modernized army was indeed part fantasy. But the bristling array of armaments underlined how military competition had overtaken ...

Russia to boost nuclear arsenal, says Putin   DAWN.com
Putin pledges to expand supply of nukes   Irish Independent
Russia to get 40 new ICBMs this year   The Hindu
Voice of America
Washington Post
Hindustan Times
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Mohamed Morsi sentenced to death over jailbreak and other offences
Sydney Morning Herald
Cairo: Deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Morse was sentenced to both death and life in prison on Tuesday in two separate court cases that supporters say were based on trumped-up charges. An Egyptian court sentenced Morse to death on Tuesday on ...

Egypt court hands Mursi death sentence in blow to Muslim Brotherhood   Reuters
Death sentence upheld for Egypt's former President Mohamed Morsi   Los Angeles Times
Morsy's death sentence upheld   The Hindu
Irish Examiner
Gulf Daily News
Salt Lake Tribune
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Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader killed in US strike in Yemen
Chron.com
CAIRO (AP) — A U.S. airstrike has killed al-Qaida's second-most-powerful figure, the head of its Yemeni branch, dealing the terror network its biggest blow since the killing of Osama bin Laden at a time when it is vying with the Islamic State group for the ...

CIA Kills al Qaeda's No. 2 Leader   Wall Street Journal
US 'decapitation' strikes have killed terrorist leaders, but not al-Qaida   Chicago Tribune
US confirms killing of Wahishi   DAWN.com
Washington Post
BBC News
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Security Officials Rescue Ondo Regent, Four Others
THISDAY Live
After two weeks in captivity, the regent of the university town of Akungba-Akoko in Akoko South West Local Government Area of Ondo State, Princess Oluwatoyin Omosowon, was early Tuesday rescued with other four persons including a member of the ...

Akungba-Akoko's Regent, Omosowon Rescued From Kidnappers   CHANNELS TELEVISION
How Akungba-Akoko Regent was rescued [PHOTOS   DailyPost Nigeria
One die as SSS, Police rescue Regent, others in Ondo   Premium Times
P.M. News
SaharaReporters.com
Pulse Nigeria
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South East APC flays Ekweremadu over comment on key appointments
Daily Sun
The South East zonal caucus of the All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday condemned the claim by the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, that his current position has guaranteed the zone a place in the APC-led government. National Vice ...

S'East APC faults Ekweremadu's marginalisation claims   The Guardian Nigeria (satire) (press release) (blog)
How I returned as Deputy Senate President - Ekweremadu recounts   DailyPost Nigeria
Ekweremadu Spills Details How He Negotiated His Way To Remain Deputy ...   NAIJ.COM
THISDAY Live
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Ogogoro: Death toll rises to 71
Daily Sun
Seventy-one persons have died and 11 persons in critical condition after drinking a deadly locally brewed gin known as Ogogoro in five local government areas in Rivers State. The local councils hit by this scourge were Ahoada West, Bonny, Gokana, Port ...

Have Mercy: Distillers plead with FG not to ban ogogoro   Pulse Nigeria
Ogogoro: Distillers Beg FG Not To Ban Local Gin   Entertainment Express

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Male Youth Corps Member Murdered in Edo
THISDAY Live
A male member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) identified as David Onyeasina, was Tuesday reportedly killed in Benin City, capital of Edo State. Onyeasina was said to have been shot dead during a robbery incident close to his residence near ...

21-Yr-Old NYSC Member Killed in Benin   AllAfrica.com
SO SAD: How 21-Year-Old Youth Corper Went To Buy Recharge Card And Died   NAIJ.COM
Police arrest killers of Corps member in Edo   DailyPost Nigeria
Pulse Nigeria
Leadership Newspapers
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