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VIDEO: Blackphone 2 aims to protect privacy September 28, 2015
The maker of a second-generation Android smartphone that promises to protect its users' privacy explain how it works.
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VIDEO: 'Supermoon' around the world September 28, 2015
People around the world have been watching a rare lunar eclipse that coincided with a so-called "supermoon".
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VIDEO: Catalonia nationalists win elections September 28, 2015
Pro-independence parties in Spain's Catalonia region have won an absolute majority in regional elections, near complete results show.
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VIDEO: Hungary 'may close border with Croatia' September 28, 2015
The BBC's Nick Thorpe reports from Hungary's border with Croatia, as people prepare to enter Hungary in search of asylum despite reports the border may close soon.
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VIDEO: Xi's UN 'gender equality' pledge criticised September 28, 2015
Lu Jun, an NGO director in New York, describes the arrest and jailing of his some of his colleagues who were working in the field of women's rights in China.
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VIDEO: The magical science behind the 'supermoon' eclipse September 28, 2015
Keith Cowing, editor of nasawatch.com in Washington, explains the reasons for the unusual phenomenon of a ''supermoon'' eclipse.
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VIDEO: Modi tears up at Facebook Q&A session September 28, 2015
On a visit to Facebook headquarters in California, Indian PM Narendra Modi appeared to cry as he talked about the sacrifices made by his mother during his childhood.
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VIDEO: Hong Kong's protest art goes on display September 28, 2015
Democracy activists in Hong Kong are preparing to mark the first anniversary of the ''umbrella movement''- when tens of thousands of people paralysed key parts of the city, calling for greater democracy.
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VIDEO: Arctic trip to probe warming waves September 27, 2015
Oceanographers have been gathering evidence of a 'vicious circle' of wind-driven turbulence in the Arctic Ocean, stirring up heat from the depths.
– AMIR MOHAMED MESHAL
* Amir Mohamed Meshal, of Tintons Falls, New Jersey, was born in 1983 in USA. He dropped out from the local college. Amir Meshal tried, unsuccessfully, to join the Army and then he headed overseas to connect with his ancestral roots and find a decent job. One of his younger brothers is in the Navy.
In the summer of 2005, Amir Meshal, along with his mother and a brother, moved to Cairo, where he found work as a telemarketer.
In 12/2005, a few months after his mother and brother returned to New Jersey, Amir Meshal told his family he had been working in Dubai as a tour guide but planned to move to Egypt, where the cost of living was lower and where he had worked previously. Instead Amir Meshal travelled to Somalia. It is most likely that in Cairo Amir Meshal got acquainted with Daniel Maldonado and joined him to Somalia.
Amir Meshal was among dozens of people who fled the Ethiopian troops and headed toward the Kenyan border, in 01/2007, after the Ethiopian-Somali War, which breached out in 12/2006.
Amir Mesha and several others, including Daniel Maldonado and a British citizen Mohamed Ezzouck, were arrested by the Kenyan military, then held by Kenyan, Somali and finally Ethiopian authorities, during which time he was questioned by FBI officials without an attorney or USA. consular official present, and found no reason for his continued detention, officials have said. It is unclear why Amir Meshal was in Somalia.
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