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Wednesday, April 8th, 2015.

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Yarmouk Refugee Camp has Reached Catastrophic Levels
 

It is still hard to properly estimate what exactly is going on in the camp, but reports by local activists suggest that a large part of the camp has been overrun by ISIS and Jabhat Al Nusra, an affiliate of Al Qaeda, who are both fighting Palestinian and Syrian militias in the camp.

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Who the Hell Keeps Leaking Kremlin Correspondence?
 

In Russia, the data-leaking group Anonymous International struck again on Tuesday, March 31, releasing an online archive of around 40,000 text messages that the group claims belong to Timur Prokopenko, an influential Kremlin official.  

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Peru's Congress Censures Prime Minister Over Domestic Spying


Peru's Congress voted to censure Prime Minster Ana Jara Velásquez, in the wake of recent disclosures of inappropriate information-gathering by the country's intelligence agency.

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Dear CNN, Uganda Is Not Tanzania
 

While reporting on the Garissa attack in Kenya, CNN showed a map that labelled Uganda as Tanzania and presented Nairobi as a city in Nigeria. This went down badly with many African netizens.

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Curated by @Nevin_Thompson
 
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