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Protesters disrupt Nikki Haley's South Sudan camp visit

Protesters disrupt Nikki Haley's South Sudan camp visit

World
A visit by Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, to a U.N. camp in South Sudan today was cut short after hundreds of people protesting South Sudan's president descended on the event she was attending, according to a spokesman for the US mission to the United Nations. Haley was meeting with civilians impacted by the South Sudan conflict when a group of several hundred people demonstrating against President Salva Kiir approached the event, the spokesman said. Haley's security team determined it was not safe and escorted her away, “cutting the event short by a few minutes,” the spokesman said. The demonstrators were pro-American and supported Haley, according to the spokesman. “The situation just got a little out of hand and our security colleagues decided it was better...
New England Patriots: Defending champs might be better entering camp

New England Patriots: Defending champs might be better entering camp

Sports
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Little more than five months removed from securing the team's fifth Lombardi Trophy with a historic, overtime comeback win over the Falcons in Super Bowl LI, head coach Bill Belichick's New England Patriots open training camp in Foxborough as the Vegas favorite to win it all again. Things are so positive these days in Patriots Nation - the defending champs are looking to be the first NFL team to win back-to-back Super Bowls since the 2003-04 New England squad, trying to also join that team in winning three in four years - that talk of a potential 19-0 campaign has begun among fans and media alike. Wide receiver Julian Edelman recently called such talk "stupid," and if you could get him to answer truthfully, Belichick would probably dismiss it with even more colorful bu...