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Nigeria president declares emergency
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has declared a state of emergency in three states after a series of deadly attacks by Islamist militant groups.
The military will take "all necessary action" to "put an end to the impunity of insurgents and terrorists" in Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe, he said.
Mr Jonathan also ordered more troops to be sent to the north-eastern states.
Militants from Boko Haram have been blamed for most of the violence, which has left 2,000 people dead since 2010.
The Islamist group, whose name means "Western education is forbidden" in the local Hausa language, is fighting to overthrow the government and create an Islamic state in the north.
Nigeria - a multiethnic nation of more than 160 million people - is also affected by a spate of conflicts over land, religion and oil.
In the latest violence, 53 people were killed and 13 villages burnt in central Nigeria's Benue state on Tuesday.
Nigeria president declares emergency
Senate Dems Slam Justice Department Over Secret Subpoenas
WASHINGTON -- Members of President Barack Obama's own party slammed his Justice Department's secret gathering of reporters' phone records as inexcusable and sickening on Tuesday, suggesting that Congress may have to act to protect the freedom of the press.
GOP Rep Throws Cold Water On Republican 'Watergate' Charges
"I don't think this is the equivalent of Watergate or Iran-Contra," he told MSNBC's Martin Bashir on Tuesday. "There's a big difference when literally somebody in the White House was ordering these things. This is not something anyone ordered; this is not an outcome anybody intended."
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