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Chad executes 10 Boko Haram members by firing squad: sources

N’DJAMENA (Reuters) – Chad has executed 10 members of Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram by firing squad, a day after they were sentenced on terrorism charges, security sources said on Saturday. “They were shot this morning at the Massaguet firing range,” said one of the sources, referring to a city about 60 km (40 miles) northeast of the capital N’Djamena. Among the executed was Mahamat Moustapha, a 30-year-old Cameroonian

Planned Parenthood goes to court to fight funding cuts in Alabama

By Letitia Stein (Reuters) – (This 28 August 2015 story was refiled to add the dropped word “court” in the first paragraph) Planned Parenthood filed a complaint in Alabama federal court on Friday seeking to stop the state from defunding its health clinics after the release of covertly recorded videos attacking the organization’s handling of aborted fetal tissue. The reproductive-health organization took similar legal action earlier this week in Louisiana,