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(Reuters) - Nigeria aims to secure the release by Tuesday of more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamist Boko Haram militants, two senior government sources said on Saturday, although they declined to comment on where this handover would take place.

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Nigeria's armed forces chief, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, announced on Friday a deal with Boko Haram for a ceasefire that would enable the release of the girls, whose abduction while taking exams in the remote northeastern town of Chibok in April caused international shock and outrage.

The announcement came a day before a rally of supporters of President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja at which either Jonathan or his vice president, Namadi Sambo, ie expected to announce his candidacy for February 2015 elections.

The timing, coupled with a history of abortive government attempts at truce deals with Boko Haram and military claims to have rescued some girls that proved false, mean Nigerians are likely to greet the newly reported breakthrough with scepticism.

"I can confirm that FG (the federal government) is working hard to meet its own part of the agreement so that the release of the abductees can be effected either on Monday or latest Tuesday next week," one source told Reuters by telephone.

Officials at the presidency and military did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Boko Haram has also not yet commented on the reported truce. The group's sole means of conveying messages are videotaped speeches by a man claiming to be Abubakar Shekau, its leader whom the military last year said it had killed.

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The second government source involved in the talks was more cautious, stressing that there might have to be more discussions in Nigeria and the Chadian capital N'djamena -- the nearest non-Nigerian major city to the heart of the Boko Haram insurgency -- before all the details are ironed out.

"We have confidence in those we are negotiating with but we are still doing it with considerable caution. Boko Haram has grown into such an amorphous entity that any splinter group could come up disowning the deal," he said.

"(But) we believe we are talking to the right people."

CONFUSION OVER BOKO HARAM LEADERSHIP

Boko Haram is believed to divided into several factions that loosely cooperate with each other, and it is unclear with which faction the government has been negotiating. It says the talks were held with a formerly unknown militant called Danladi Admadu, who alleges he is the group's "secretary general".

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Underlining the uncertainty over chain of command in Boko Haram, Nigeria's military said at the end of last month that a man who had been posing as Shekau in the group's growing number of videos had been killed in clashes over the town of Konduga.

Boko Haram, whose name translates roughly as "Western education is sinful", has massacred thousands in a struggle to carve an Islamic state out of religiously mixed Nigeria, whose southern half is mainly Christian or animist in faith.

Nigeria is Africa's most populous country and its oil-rich economy is the continent's largest.

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The schoolgirls' abduction stunned the world, spurred a global Twitter campaign to get them rescued and heaped pressure on Jonathan's administration to do more to protect civilians in the northeast where Boko Haram's insurgency is focused.

Members of the Abuja 'Bring Back Our Girls' protest group sit during a protest march, in continuation of the Global Week of Action to commemorate six months since the abduction of the 219 Chibok school girls, organized by the group to the Presidential Villa, in Abuja October 14, 2014. REUTERS-Afolabi Sotunde

Several rounds of negotiations with the jihadist movement have been pursued in recent years but they have never yielded calm, partly because of Boko Haram's internal divisions.

Since the girls' kidnapping, the Nigerian military has twice asserted that it rescued some or all of the girls, only to have to backtrack hours later.

At Saturday's rally in Abuja, many of President Jonathan's supporters wrapped themselves in the white and green of Nigeria's flag and sang and danced under a banner reading "We Love You Goodluck Jonathan. Our support is 100 percent."

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Two candidates for the main opposition coalition, former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari and ex-vice president Atiku Abubakar, have declared their candidacy against Jonathan.

(Additional reporting by Camillus Eboh in Abuja; Writing by Tim Cocks; Editing by Mark Heinrich)




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Cold Summers Entertainment CEO, Lil Eto is putting the finishing touches on his album entitled The Gold. The Tanboys member takes a break long enough to record a remix to Troy Ave's "All About the Money" x G-Unit's "All About The Drug Money" freestyle.

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Jessica Vanessa is a bonafied Vine star. The 22-year old has racked up 2 million followers after just one year on the video-sharing site. She makes a lot of comedic clips, but it's her twerking videos that have grabbed everyone's attention.

“People like to define twerking as you’re a whore if you do it,” the Puerto Rican cutie told Barcroft TV. “No, it’s just a type of dance — that’s it. If you were open-minded you would understand that.”

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Jessica's previous job involved working with children. In a Cosmopolitan interview she described herself as a former day care worker. She told Barcroft TV she had been a pre-kindergarten teacher. Whatever the case she quit because of the travel demands required as her popularity grew on Vine.

Twerking has proven to be a lucrative business for Jessica.

Either I make money on the internet. Make money doing these videos or I'm going to be broke and jobless," she explained to Barcroft TV regarding her decision to Vine full time. "And once I quit, thank God all these opportunities just ran into my face. What I make in six seconds would have taken me four months to make as a pre-K teacher I work. I bought a new car, paid it off in full and was able to get out of debt.”

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Most of the six figures Jessica is pulling in is from promoting either online products or artist's music. It's turned into a family business. Her brother Joshua is her cameraman 

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Jessica hopes more women of color find the same success as Miley Cyrus has by twerking.

"Well, people assume that I'm white, even though I'm Puerto Rican, so yeah, I don't get that either," she told Cosmopolitan. "I don't get why Miley gets all this respect for twerking when women of many colors, white girls, black girls, Spanish girls, we all do pretty much the same thing. I don't know why the media is so focused on what I do when twerking has been around for so long. I don't know what makes me any different. I'm over here reading all these articles and they act like they just discovered twerking [laughs]."

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Smack and the Ultimate Rap League present Brizz Rawsteen vs DOT.

UFF is SMACK/ URL'S 8 man elimination MC Battle tournament. UFF season 3 kicks off with an exciting match up between DOT & Brizz Rawstein. Every Friday @ 5PM on BET UFF brings you an action packed battle so make sure you tune in.

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Snoop Dogg and Pharrell Williams will continue their history of collaborations on Snoop's next album.

Billboard reports that the West Coast rapper has inked a deal with Skateboard P's I Am Other. The new album will be released in conjunction with Columbia Records.

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Pharrell will produce the entire album. It will feature legendary R&B singers Charlie Wilson and Stevie Wonder..



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Curren$y drops off an official music video for "Drug Prescription." The Joey Fatts/J. LBS-produced song is off of Spitta Andretti's More Saturday Night Car Tunes mixtape. Grab it from Datpiff http://www.datpiff.com/Curreny-More-Saturday-Night-Car-Tunes-mixtape.653263.html.

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2013 XXL Freshman class rapper Logic is preparing to release his debut album entitled Under Pressure via Visionary Music Group/Def Jam Recordings.

The Maryland native is out on the getting the word out. In episode 26 of his "Just Another Day" webisode he visits Fairfax for a meet and greet with fans.

Pre-order the album now.

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WASHINGTON (Associated Press) — President Barack Obama turned to a trusted adviser to lead the nation's Ebola response on Friday as efforts to clamp down on any possible route of infection from three Texas cases expanded, reaching a cruise ship at sea and multiple airline flights.

Facing renewed criticism of his handling of the Ebola risk, Obama will make Ron Klain, a former chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden, his point man on the U.S. fight against Ebola at home and in West Africa. Klain will report to national security adviser Susan Rice and to homeland security adviser Lisa Monaco, the White House said.

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Meanwhile, the World Health Organization admitted to mistakes of its own in failing to contain the outbreak still spreading out of control in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.

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"Nearly everyone involved in the outbreak response failed to see some fairly plain writing on the wall," the U.N. health agency said in a draft internal document obtained by The Associated Press. The response was marred by incompetency and ineffective bureaucracy, the document says, and experts should have realized that traditional containment methods wouldn't work in an African region with porous borders and broken health systems.

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Under pressure from Republican lawmakers, Obama on Thursday said that he was not "philosophically opposed" to considering restricting travel to the U.S. from the three Ebola-stricken West African nations. But he said health and security experts continue to tell him that the screening measures already in place for travelers are more effective.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest on Friday reaffirmed the White House's current opposition to such restrictions.

"At this point, if our core priority is protecting the American public, then we're not going to put in place a travel ban," he said.

Government officials said early Friday that they had been seeking to remove from a Caribbean cruise ship a Dallas health care worker who handled an Ebola lab specimen, although she has shown no signs of infection for 19 days. But the ship did not get clearance to dock in Cozumel, Mexico, on Friday, a day after officials in Belize would not allow the woman or her spouse to leave, a Carnival Cruise Lines spokeswoman said.

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The cruise line said the ship was now on the way to its home port of Galveston, Texas, for its originally scheduled return of Sunday morning. The cruise company said that the woman, a lab supervisor traveling with her spouse, remained in isolation "and is not deemed to be a risk to any guests or crew."

Still, under new tighter travel rules placed on the staff of a Dallas hospital where two nurses caught Ebola from a Liberian patient, the woman would not have been permitted to be on the ship.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says Ebola isn't contagious until symptoms appear. Ebola isn't spread through the air like the flu; people catch it by direct contact with a sick person's bodily fluids, such as blood or vomit.

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Doctors at the National Institutes of Health in Maryland said that a Dallas nurse, Nina Pham, brought there for Ebola treatment was very tired but resting comfortably Friday in "fair" condition.

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Nina Pham

The second nurse to contract Ebola, Amber Vinson, was being treated at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, as precautions related to her personal travel spiraled wider.

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Amber Vinson

Passengers and crew aboard seven Frontier Airlines flights were affected, too, as well as a handful of people in the Akron, Ohio, area. An Akron bridal shop that Vinson visited was closed and shoppers were being contacted.

A CDC official said Vinson may already have had Ebola when she flew from Dallas to Ohio to visit relatives. The agency had earlier said Vinson didn't become sick until the morning after she returned to Dallas.

Officials are investigating whether she had symptoms as far back as Saturday, Oct. 11, or possibly earlier, said Dr. Chris Braden of the CDC.

"Some more information that's come through just recently would say that we can't rule out the fact that she might have had the start of her illness on Friday," Braden said.

Police said Vinson stayed at the home of her mother and stepfather in Tallmadge, northeast of Akron, and the home has been cordoned off with yellow tape. Eight individuals in northeast Ohio were under quarantine, health officials said.

Frontier Airlines said it would contact passengers on seven flights, including two that carried Vinson and others afterward that used the same plane.

Airline officials put two pilots and four flight attendants on paid leave for 21 days and said they did not know when the aircraft, which has been cleaned several times, would return to service.

In Dallas, officials took a tougher approach toward monitoring dozens of health care workers who were exposed to the virus while treating Liberian traveler Thomas Eric Duncan, who died at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital.

The health care workers were asked to sign legally binding documents agreeing not to go to public places or use public transportation. The penalties for anyone who breaks the agreement weren't disclosed.

The chief clinical officer at the hospital, Dr. Daniel Varga, said the hospital was caught short when Duncan came to the institution "with non-specific symptoms."

"I think we all in the health care community underestimated the challenge of diagnosis," he said on ABC's "Good Morning America" Friday.

He also said the two nurses who contracted the disease had followed standard hospital procedure. "We have no indication that Nina or Amber had any break in protocol. We were working with the best information we had," Varga said.

Canceling a campaign fundraising trip for the second straight day Thursday, Obama met into the evening with top aides and health officials. The White House said Obama also placed calls to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven to discuss a need for an international response to the outbreak in West Africa.

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Associated Press writers Emily Schmall and Nomaan Merchant in Dallas; Erica Werner, Josh Lederman and Matthew Daly in Washington; and Ann Sanner in Columbus, Ohio, contributed to this report.



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SEOUL, South Korea (Associated Press) — Sixteen people watching an outdoor pop concert in South Korea fell 20 meters (60 feet) to their deaths Friday when a ventilation grate they were standing on collapsed, officials said.

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Photos of the scene in Seongnam, just south of Seoul, showed a deep concrete shaft under the broken grate.

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Seongnam city spokesman Kim Nam-jun announced the deaths in a televised briefing and said 11 others were seriously injured.

Fire officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because of office rules, said the victims were standing on the grate while watching an outdoor performance by girls' band 4Minute, which is popular across Asia.

About 700 people had gathered to watch the concert, which was part of a local festival. Fire officials said many of the dead and injured appeared to be commuters who stopped to watch the concert after leaving work. Most of the dead were men in their 30s and 40s, while five were women in their 20s and 30s, they said.

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Kim said it was believed that the grate collapsed under the weight of the people. Prime Minister Chung Hong-won visited an emergency center in Seongnam and urged officials to focus on helping the victims' families and ensure the injured get proper treatment, Kim said.

A video recorded by someone at the concert that was shown on the YTN television network showed the band continuing to dance for a while in front of a crowd that appeared to be unaware of the accident.

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Dozens of people were shown standing next to the ventilation grate, gazing into the dark gaping hole where people had been standing to watch the performance. YTN said the ventilation grate was about 3 to 4 meters (10 to 12 feet) wide. Photos apparently taken at the scene showed that the ventilation grate reached to the shoulders of many passers-by.

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The collapse came as South Korea is still struggling with the aftermath of a ferry disaster in April that left more than 300 people dead or missing.

For a time, the sinking jolted South Korea into thinking about safety issues that had been almost universally overlooked as the country rose from poverty and war to an Asian power.

The tragedy exposed regulatory failures that appear to have allowed the ferry Sewol to set off with far more cargo than it could safely carry. Family members say miscommunications and delays during rescue efforts doomed their loved ones.

Analysts say many safety problems in the country stem from little regulation, light punishment for violators and wide ignorance about safety in general — and a tendency to value economic advancement over all else.

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Associated Press writer Youkyung Lee contributed to this story.






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Birdman's Rich Gang members Young Thug and Rich Homie Quan drop an official music video for "Freestyle." This is off of the Rich Gang: Tha Tour Pt. 1 mixtape. The visuals were directed by Be El Be.

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