Peace Fest in Forest Park draws crowd after Ferguson events
Hundreds gather at Forest Park for Peace Fest 2014 to promote nonviolence amid reactions to the Ferguson shooting. Organizers say Tracy Martin will speak alongside a Brown family representative as part of the event.
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ST. Louis
Michael Brown
Ferguson
James Clark
Better Family Life Inc
Tracy Martin
Florida
Trayvon Martin
Forest Park
Brown
American journalist Theo Curtis freed from Syria captivity
The 45 year old Massachusetts native Theo Curtis, writing as Theo Padnos, was released by Nusra Front affiliates after nearly two years in captivity in Syria. Qatar mediated the release. Curtis was handed to U.N. representatives in the Golan Heights and is safe outside Syria.
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Washington
al-Qaida
Syria
James Foley
Peter Theo Curtis
Massachusetts
Theo Padnos
White House
Susan Rice
Curtis
John Kerry
Jabhat al-Nusra
Nusra Front
Barack Obama
Theo
Eric Schultz
Golan Heights
U.S
Tel Aviv
Qatar
Gulf Emirate
United Nations
Associated Press
Gulf
Bashar Assad
Rebels parade captured Ukrainian soldiers in Donetsk
In Donetsk hundreds watched as bound Ukrainian prisoners were marched past rebels amid jeers and insults. Bystanders tossed eggs water bottles and tomatoes while tanks and destroyed equipment were shown in the city square. Human Rights Watch called the act a potential war crime under Geneva Conventions.
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Donetsk
Ukraine
Kiev
Soviet Union
East
Moscow
Petro Poroshenko
Red Army
Alexander Zakharchenko
Poroshenko
Human Rights Watch
Nursa
Alexander
Egyptian Islamic authority rejects term Islamic State in internet drive
Dar el-Ifta led by Grand Mufti Shawki Allam launches online effort to drop the label Islamic State for the group in Iraq and Syria. Officials say qsis or al-Qaida separatists in Iraq and Syria will replace the term to counter its tarnishing of Islam. President el-Sissi backs moderates and calls the group a plot to undermine Islam while scholars worldwide provide counterarguments via social media and videos.
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Cairo
Egypt
Syria
Iraq
Dar el-Ifta
Islamic State Group
James Foley
Grand Mufti
Shawki Allam
al-Qaida
QSIS
Ibrahim Negri
West
Negri
MENA
Mohammed Morsi
Mufti
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Sierra Leone
Royal Air Force
World Health Organization
U.N. Health Agency
Sidie Yayah Tunis
NYPD
New York
Athena Skeeter
Children’s Services
Skeeter
American Heart Association
American Cancer Society
The
Heart Association
Elliott Antman
Cancer Society
al-Qaida-linked
Jim Kuhnhein and
Ryan Lucas
Rachel Denber
Al-Azhar
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