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Despite the 9/11 catastrophe, the USA’s much-hyped intelligence community yet again failed to head off a preventable disaster. Major Nisal…
The massacre at the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) was the deadliest peacetime shooting by…
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As the millennium loomed, Christianity in Africa blossomed to equal or surpass the number of its European adherents. African Christians…