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FROM WORLD NEWS TODAY: Anybody else noticing a pattern here?  

At least 40 members of a religious minority in MYANMAR were killed by security forces and Buddhists in the western village of Du Char Yar Tan last week, a human rights group said. Fortify Rights, a group based in Southeast Asia, claims the attacks against the Rohingya Muslims were carried out after the suspected killing of a police officer, who is still missing. Most of dead were women and children, the group said.

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(Reuters) - EGYPT: A wave of bomb attacks targeting police hit Cairo on Friday, killing six people on the eve of the third anniversary of the uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak and raising fears that an Islamist insurgency is gaining pace in Egypt.  In the most high-profile attack, a car bomb exploded at a security compound in central Cairo early in the morning and killed at least four people, including three policemen, security sources said. They said the blast was the work of a suicide bomber. But footage broadcast on an Egyptian television channel showed a man getting out of a van and moving into another vehicle. Minutes later the van exploded.  Another blast in the Dokki district killed one person. An explosion near a cinema on the road to the Pyramids of Giza on the outskirts of Cairo also led to one fatality.

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SOUTH SUDAN STRIFE: White Army soldiers in Lankien are still ready for a fight They have a youthful, confident swagger, ammunition belts draped around their necks, roaring into town in their open pick-up truck. "The White Army", as they are known, calls the shots here. An ad hoc militia formed originally for cattle raids, they are part of the rebel movement that has been fighting troops loyal to the government for the past five weeks.

An ad hoc militia formed originally for cattle raids, they are part of the rebel movement that has been fighting troops loyal to the government for the past five weeks.

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Bodies were sprawled in public squares along the streets of Bangui, capital of the CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC, after a one day free-for-all between Muslim soldiers and Christian militias left more than 100 dead in December.

There was short-lived dancing in the decimated streets of Bangui after a makeshift parliament announced there was a new president in the Central African Republic, where anarchy and bloodthirsty religious fighters have brought the country to its knees.

Catherine Samba-Panza, a 59-year-old corporate lawyer, thrust her arms into the air Monday to declare victory, then immediately begged for calm.

"I call on my children … to put down their arms and stop all the fighting," said the first woman to lead the landlocked African country with a staggering history of coups, dictators and mass atrocities.

"I don't want to hear any more talk of murders and killings," she admonished citizens of one of the poorest countries in all of Africa. When the screams of joy and jubilation in the burned-out capital of Bangui subsided Monday, the killings and torture resumed. In the countryside, it never stopped.  Despite foreign accolades for the new interim president, there is little hope for quick peace, experts told the Daily News.

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ISRAEL AND PALESTINE: Kamal Shaban, a farmer in the West Bank village of Sinjil, is watching workmen repair a local family’s house that had recently been firebombed by settlers in the middle of the night, forcing the parents and five children asleep inside to flee to the rooftop. As for himself, Shaban says that during the autumn olive harvests, settlers have stoned the laborers in his fields, turned over a tractor, stolen sacks of olives and once broke a worker’s arm with a big rock – all under the eye of Israeli soldiers required by the Supreme Court to protect the farmers.

Why can't we all just get along?