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Smoke billows from the roof of the four-story Westgate shopping mall where a number of hostages have been kept for three days in Nairobi, Kenya. Photo by Ahmet Erkan Yigitsozlu/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images. The gunfire "sounded as if it were…

NEW YORK -- Even though Malala Yousafzai, the young education activist who was shot by a member of the Taliban, started out as a blogger for the BBC, she normally doesn't tweet. But Monday afternoon, she typed her first 140-character…

Sep 23

Background Briefing: What is al-Shabab?

Al-Shabab, or “the Youth,” is an al-Qaida-linked militant group and U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization fighting for the creation of a fundamentalist Islamic state in Somalia.

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Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright made her Twitter debut on Monday. By 10 a.m. ET, she already had more than 4,000 followers. Her profile reads, "Grateful American Czech immigrant, mother & grandmother, fmr SecState, passionate democrat, author, prof, bizwoman,…