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DADAAB, Kenya — Refugee Barwago Mohamud huddles silently beneath a few blankets stretched over sticks at night, fearing for her life after a neighbor was raped, and a naked woman who had been kidnapped and gang-raped for three days in front of her terrified children was delivered to the medical tent next door. Only a few hundred feet away stands a newly built camp with a police station, toilet blocks and schools. Neat thornbush fences in the camp separate residential areas for families to move into. But all the facilities are empty. The Kenyan government is refusing to open the...

WITH a stricken US pilot lost, alone and terrified in the dark, Gaddafi-hating villagers rushed to his aid and to thank him for taking on the tyrant. But as they approached, American special forces unleashed a terrifying volley of gunfire, scattering them in all directions fearing for their lives. Shooting from an Osprey attack aircraft, afraid their comrades were about to fall into the hands of Gaddafi’s brutal forces, troops strafed the ground to clear the way for a dramatic rescue. But several villagers were injured in the melee, including a man who was said to have lost a leg....

A year after President Obama vowed more than “empty promises” to American Indians, tribal leaders are preparing to demand that he follow through.