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Technology: Show your social savvy with these advanced Snapchat tricks

Snapchat has a simple core concept—sharing photos and videos privately. The app lets you take images and send them to friends, but once the clips have been viewed, they disappear rather than hanging around on the internet forever.

Politics: December Convention, Big Test For PDP – Ex-Minister

Former Minister of Sports and Youths Development, Prof. Taoheed Adedoja says the  December  elective national convention of the PDP will be a massive test for the party’s democratic credentials. According to Adedoja, the convention will give members the opportunity to see whether or not the party will continue to act with impunity and impose candidates on members.

Health News: Obamacare Website to Be Shut Down for Portion of Most Weekends During Open Enrollment

People wait in line to see an agent from Sunshine Life and Health Advisors as the Affordable Care Act website is reading, "HealthCare.gov has a lot of visitors right now!" at a store setup in the Mall of Americas on March 31, 2014, in Miami, Florida. (Photo: Joe Raedle / Getty Images)

NEWS: Dozens of Civilians Killed When U.S. Bombed a School And a Market in Syria

Rubble of a residential house that local residents said was attacked in a coalition airstrike on March 30, 2017, killing six civilians. Photo: Ole Solvang/Human Rights Watch U.S. military aircraft bombed a school and a crowded marketplace in attacks that killed dozens

NEWS: Merkel faces tough coalition talks as nationalists enter German parliament

German chancellor’s centre-right alliance remains largest force in parliament, as far-right Alternative für Deutschland takes 13% of vote in Sunday’s election. Angela Merkel faces tough negotiations in coming weeks as she attempts to engineer a governing coalition that can withstand pressure from the far right, which has swept into the German parliament for the first time in over five decades.

NEWS: Russian, Pakistani Forces Launch Joint Exercise In North Caucasus

Pakistan and Russia conducted their first joint exercises last year. (file photo) Special forces from Russia and Pakistan have begun a two-week joint training exercise in Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Karachayevo-Cherkessia.

News: UN Says Russia Committing 'Grave Human Rights Violations' In Occupied Crimea

Russian riot police in occupied Crimea arrest a Crimean Tatar in Simferopol ahead of a rally to mark the enforced Soviet deportation of the Tatars from the Ukrainian peninsula in the 1940s. (file photo) Agents of the Russian state have committed serious human rights abuses, including torture, since Russia occupied and seized control of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, a UN human rights report says.