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The head of US Africa Command said on Thursday that the US pulled some of its forces from Nigeria after a series of joint US-Nigerian operations against ISIS in the northeastern part of the country, which included at least one attack that locals say killed civilians. “We have withdrawn much of our forces that were […]

Arizona, California Score Separate Court Wins Over Election Rules Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times, Election officials in Arizona and California won separate court victories Friday in disputes over voting rules, with a federal appeals court upholding key provisions of an Arizona voter-registration law and a California judge temporarily blocking a local election overhaul. Arizona Voter Registration Law In Arizona, an 11-judge en banc panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit unanimously ruled that voting rights organizations lacked standing to challenge two provisions that dictate how counties...

Indian Refiners Continue West Africa Crude Buying Spree By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com India’s state-run refiners continue their buying spree of crude from West Africa as the Middle East crisis has sapped supply and made deliveries uncertain. In one of the latest purchases via a tender, India’s state-owned refiner Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) has acquired 2 million barrels of Nigerian crude oil from Shell, trade sources told Reuters on Thursday. HPCL has bought 1 million barrels each of Nigerian crude grades Forcados and Bonga for its Visakh refinery in the state of...