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Alps Crash Co-Pilot 'Planned Place In History'

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Alps Crash Co-Pilot 'Planned Place In History'

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A former girlfriend of the co-pilot accused of deliberately crashing a Germanwings plane is reported to have told how he suffered nightmares and once ominously woke up screaming: "We're going down!"

According to the Bild newspaper, the ex-lover of Andreas Lubitz, identified only as Mary W, said he had told her last year: "One day I will do something that will change the whole system, and then all will know my name and remember it."

She added: "I never knew what he meant, but now it makes sense."

The 26-year-old stewardess said Lubitz had been tormented by nightmares and his behaviour scared her.

"At night, he woke up and screamed: 'We're going down!', because he had nightmares. He knew how to hide from other people what was really going on inside," she told the paper.

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  1. Gallery: The Victims Of The Germanwings Crash

    American Emily Selke, a recent graduate, was on the plane with her mother Yvonne. Raymond Selke has described his wife and daughter as 'amazing people'. Pic: Facebook

Iranian sports journalist Hussein Javadi was on his way to Austria to cover a football match. A friend said he was 'a kind, loving, caring man'. Pic: Maysam Bizær/Hossein Javadi

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Argentinian Sebastian Greco was on board with his girlfriend. Pic: Facebook

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Argentinian Gabriela Maumus, 28, was the daughter of a firefighter. Pic: Facebook

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Spanish victim Carles Milla Masanas, 37. The businessman was on his way to a food industry fayre. Pic: Facebook

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Alps Crash Co-Pilot 'Planned Place In History'

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A former girlfriend of the co-pilot accused of deliberately crashing a Germanwings plane is reported to have told how he suffered nightmares and once ominously woke up screaming: "We're going down!"

According to the Bild newspaper, the ex-lover of Andreas Lubitz, identified only as Mary W, said he had told her last year: "One day I will do something that will change the whole system, and then all will know my name and remember it."

She added: "I never knew what he meant, but now it makes sense."

The 26-year-old stewardess said Lubitz had been tormented by nightmares and his behaviour scared her.

"At night, he woke up and screamed: 'We're going down!', because he had nightmares. He knew how to hide from other people what was really going on inside," she told the paper.

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  1. Gallery: The Victims Of The Germanwings Crash

    American Emily Selke, a recent graduate, was on the plane with her mother Yvonne. Raymond Selke has described his wife and daughter as 'amazing people'. Pic: Facebook

Iranian sports journalist Hussein Javadi was on his way to Austria to cover a football match. A friend said he was 'a kind, loving, caring man'. Pic: Maysam Bizær/Hossein Javadi

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Argentinian Sebastian Greco was on board with his girlfriend. Pic: Facebook

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Argentinian Gabriela Maumus, 28, was the daughter of a firefighter. Pic: Facebook

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Spanish victim Carles Milla Masanas, 37. The businessman was on his way to a food industry fayre. Pic: Facebook

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UN Evacuates Staff As Warplanes Pound Yemen

UN Evacuates Staff As Warplanes Pound Yemen

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The United Nations has evacuated its staff from the Yemeni capital Sanaa, as a Saudi-led air campaign pounds Shia rebel targets across the country.

Health officials said more than 62 people have died in the southern city Aden alone in the three-day bombardment by Saudi Arabia and its fellow Sunni-ruled allies.

A convoy of rebel fighters advancing on Aden was bombarded on Saturday, residents said.

Explosions at the city's biggest arms depot left at least nine badly injured, a health official said.

And warplanes targeted an airport in the rebel-held capital, according to residents and an official.

The air campaign is an attempt to restore President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who was ousted from Sanaa in September by the Shia rebels, known as the Houthis.

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    People search for survivors under the rubble of houses destroyed by an air strike near Sana'a Airport in Yemen. Continue through for more images

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UN Evacuates Staff As Warplanes Pound Yemen

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The United Nations has evacuated its staff from the Yemeni capital Sanaa, as a Saudi-led air campaign pounds Shia rebel targets across the country.

Health officials said more than 62 people have died in the southern city Aden alone in the three-day bombardment by Saudi Arabia and its fellow Sunni-ruled allies.

A convoy of rebel fighters advancing on Aden was bombarded on Saturday, residents said.

Explosions at the city's biggest arms depot left at least nine badly injured, a health official said.

And warplanes targeted an airport in the rebel-held capital, according to residents and an official.

The air campaign is an attempt to restore President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who was ousted from Sanaa in September by the Shia rebels, known as the Houthis.

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  1. Gallery: Yemen: Aftermath Of Airstrikes By Saudi Arabia And Gulf Allies

    People search for survivors under the rubble of houses destroyed by an air strike near Sana'a Airport in Yemen. Continue through for more images

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Astronauts Begin One-Year Space Mission

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft with three crew on board has successfully docked with the International Space Station, Nasa has said.

Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko and American astronaut Scott Kelly are to spend 342 days aboard the orbiting laboratory - about twice as long as a standard mission on the station.

The stay is aimed at measuring the effects of a prolonged period of weightlessness on the human body, a step toward possible missions to Mars or beyond.

The Soyuz capsule - also carrying Russia's Gennady Padalka for a six-month stay - docked about six hours after launching on Saturday from Russia's manned space facility in Kazakhstan.

The trip marks the longest amount of time that two people will live continuously at the ISS, though a handful of Russian cosmonauts spent a year to 14 months at the Russian space station Mir in the 1990s.

"This is the first time we're doing it as an international partnership, which I think is one of the great success stories of the International Space Station," Mr Kelly said at a news conference ahead of the launch.

"If we ever go beyond Low Earth orbit again, perhaps to Mars, because of the cost and the complexity it will most likely be an international mission, so I see this as a stepping stone to that."

The physical effects of a year in space will be closely monitored by doctors on the ground in an unprecedented study of how the human body withstands the rigours of spaceflight before humans plan to journey to Mars.

Mr Kelly said he was concerned about the impacts of radiation and living in zero gravity, particularly in terms of compromised immunity and bone and vision loss.

"I'm hopeful that there is not a big cliff out there with regards to our ability to stay and live and work in space for longer periods of time," he said.

"But we are not going to know that until we have actually done it," he added. "The jury is out."

Mr Kelly and Mr Kornienko, both of whom have flown multiple missions to orbit and have each previously spent about six months on the ISS, are set to stay on the space station until March 2016.

Three crew members - Russian Anton Shkaplerov, Italian Samantha Cristoforetti and American Terry Virts - are currently onboard the space station, due to leave in May.

The arriving crew members are due to coincide with the first space tourist since 2009, British singer Sarah Brightman, who has paid $52m for her 10-day stint planned to start on 1 September.

Space exploration remains a hugely symbolic area of cooperation between Russia and the US despite the freeze in relations over Russia's alleged actions in Ukraine.

Russia last month confirmed that it will continue using the ISS in partnership with Nasa until 2024, after threatening to pull out and stop financing it in 2020.


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Outrage At China Treatment Of Activists

Outrage At China Treatment Of Activists

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By Mark Stone, China Correspondent in Beijing

The lawyer for one of five women held in China after campaigning for women's rights has told Sky News their treatment is beyond anything he could ever have imagined.

Wang Qiushi represents Wei Tingting, who was detained by Chinese authorities on 6 March with four other young women.

They were accused of "picking a quarrel" after they had planned a public campaign to end sexual harassment on International Women's Day.

In a coordinated police operation, the women - Zheng Churan, Li Tingting, both 25, Wei Tingting, 27, Wu Rongrong, 30 and Wang Man, 32 - were arrested in different parts of China and brought to Haidian Detention Centre in northwest Beijing.

Three of them remain in custody at the centre. The other two, Ms Wu and Ms Wang, have since been moved to a police hospital.

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Outrage At China Treatment Of Activists

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By Mark Stone, China Correspondent in Beijing

The lawyer for one of five women held in China after campaigning for women's rights has told Sky News their treatment is beyond anything he could ever have imagined.

Wang Qiushi represents Wei Tingting, who was detained by Chinese authorities on 6 March with four other young women.

They were accused of "picking a quarrel" after they had planned a public campaign to end sexual harassment on International Women's Day.

In a coordinated police operation, the women - Zheng Churan, Li Tingting, both 25, Wei Tingting, 27, Wu Rongrong, 30 and Wang Man, 32 - were arrested in different parts of China and brought to Haidian Detention Centre in northwest Beijing.

Three of them remain in custody at the centre. The other two, Ms Wu and Ms Wang, have since been moved to a police hospital.

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Indiana 'Religious Freedom' Law Triggers Fury

By Sky News US Team

Indiana is defying calls for a boycott after it passed a law that critics say would allow businesses to refuse to serve gay people on religious grounds.

On Friday, Governor Mike Pence again defended Senate Bill 101, a day after he signed it at a private ceremony attended by Catholic nuns, orthodox Jews and social-conservative lobbyists.

His office spoke out as a similar bill cleared the state Senate in Arkansas, whose governor has indicated he will approve the measure.

Other US states have adopted similar laws making it illegal for the federal government to infringe on individual freedom of religion.

Indiana's Republican governor insists the law, which takes effect on 1 July, is not discriminatory and makes no mention of gays or lesbians.

"It is vitally important to protect religious freedom in Indiana," he said in a statement. 

But activists say the law is revenge after a failed bid last year to weave a gay marriage ban into the Midwestern state's constitution.

Sarah Warbelow, legal director of the Human Rights Campaign, said: "They've basically said, as long as your religion tells you to, it's OK to discriminate against people."

The Indiana Chamber of Commerce said the law was "entirely unnecessary".

Cloud computer giant Salesforce said it was cancelling all business in Indiana.

The world's biggest gaming convention, Gen Con, is threatening to stop holding its event in Indianapolis.

Apple chief executive Tim Cook, who came out as gay last year, said he was "deeply disappointed" in the law.

Perhaps most alarmingly for the basketball-mad Hoosier state, the National Collegiate Athletic Association said it is "especially concerned" by the law.

The organisation is due to stage the US men's college basketball finals next week in Indianapolis. 

Celebrities are also taking to social media to pillory the law.

Actor Ashton Kutcher compared it to anti-Semitism, Star Trek star George Takei urging a state boycott and rapper MC Hammer labelled the bill "barbaric and inhumane".

The mayor of San Francisco said the city would not use taxpayer money to fund any city employees' trips to Indiana.

Gay marriage is now recognised in 37 states after the US Supreme Court ruled two years ago that federal law could not discriminate against married same-sex couples.


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Andreas Lubitz: Profile Of Killer Co-Pilot

The co-pilot who deliberately crashed a plane in the French Alps with the loss of 150 lives had a history of depression, it has been reported.

The focus on Andreas Lubitz's mental health comes after a French prosecutor concluded the 27-year-old had deliberately flown the Germanwings Airbus 320 into the mountainside killing all those on board.

German prosecutors have said there are indications the co-pilot concealed an illness from his employer, hiding a sick note for the day of the crash.

However, they did not specify the nature of the illness.

Matthias Gebauer, chief correspondent for the online edition of German newspaper Der Spiegel, tweeted: "Schoolmates of co-pilot who crashed tell German reporters he took six-months break from flight training in 2009 due to burnout-syndrome."

The head of Lufthansa, the budget airline's parent company, has already admitted Lubitz had taken the lengthy break from training.

While chief executive Carsten Spohr did not give a reason for this interruption, German media reported he was suffering from "burnout or depression".

Mr Spohr said: "I cannot tell you anything about the reasons of this interruption, but anybody who interrupts the training has to do a lot of tests so the competence and fitness would be checked again."

According to Lufthansa, Germanwings pilots undergo medical tests once a year.

However, they are only required to undergo psychological tests once, before they are accepted as pilots.

Lubitz also underwent a regular security check on 27 January and nothing untoward was found, the local government in Dusseldorf said.

Previous security checks in 2008 and 2010 also revealed no problems.

Lubitz had grown up dreaming of becoming a pilot, gaining his glider's licence after training with LSC Westerwald flying club in his hometown of Montabaur.

Club member Peter Ruecker recalled Lubitz as "rather quiet but friendly" when he first joined the club as a teenager.

He added: "He was happy he had the job with Germanwings and he was doing well."

Lubitz had been employed as a flight attendant before training to be a pilot at the Lufthansa flight school in Bremen.

He also underwent training in Phoenix, Arizona.

Lubitz joined Germanwings in 2013 and had clocked up 630 flying hours before the disaster.

Lufthansa said he passed all the relevant examinations necessary to become a pilot and was deemed "100% airworthy".

Lubitz had also been included by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on its database to show he had met or exceeded its pilot certification standards, which aim to "reduce pilot errors that lead to fatal crashes".

In Montabaur where Lubitz lived with his parents, neighbours reacted with disbelief when they heard of his involvement.

One man, who did not want to be named, said that he had known the pilot since childhood.

He told Sky News: "I cannot imagine that he has done it with intention.

"This does not fit in this picture I have of him. It is a very upright family, very helpful and I cannot understand what has happened.

"I knew the children when they were small boys."

Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin said Lubitz, who also had a flat in Dusseldorf, had never been flagged as a terrorist.

And when pressed over Lubitz's religion, he said: "I don't think this is where this lies. I don't think we will get any answers there."

Although rare, there have been previous instances of suspected pilot suicide.

The most infamous likely - but still disputed - cases of pilot suicide was the 1997 Silk Air crash in Indonesia, in which 104 people died.

A US-led investigation concluded it had been caused deliberately, probably by the captain who had serious personal problems.

A Mozambique Airlines plane crash that killed 33 people in Namibia in 2013 is also believed to have been a case of pilot suicide.


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Amanda Knox 'Grateful' For Meredith Acquittal

Amanda Knox 'Grateful' For Meredith Acquittal

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Amanda Knox said she was "full of joy" after she and Raffaele Sollecito were acquitted of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher.

A tearful Ms Knox added she was "grateful" following the judgement by Italy's top court, which brings an eight-year legal saga to a close.

"I'm still absorbing the present moment, which is full of joy," she told reporters outside her family home in Seattle.

Ms Knox also said she was thankful "for the justice I've received and for the support I've had from everyone - from my family, from my friends, to strangers. I'm so grateful to have my life back".

Asked about Ms Kercher, she replied: "Meredith was my friend. She deserved so much in this life. I'm the lucky one." 

Ms Kercher's family said they were shocked by the judges' ruling, although they knew it was a possibility.

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  1. Gallery: Meredith Kercher Murder: Key Events

    2 November 2007: The body of Meredith Kercher, 21, is found in her Perugia apartment. Investigators say she was killed the night before

Ms Kercher's flatmate, Amanda Knox, is pictured kissing her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito in the days after the murder

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6 November 2007: Knox is arrested along with Sollecito and Diya 'Patrick' Lumumba, the Congolese owner of the pub where Knox occasionally worked

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20 November 2007: Mr Lumumba, implicated by Knox in her statements to police, is released from jail for lack of evidence

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Amanda Knox 'Grateful' For Meredith Acquittal

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Amanda Knox said she was "full of joy" after she and Raffaele Sollecito were acquitted of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher.

A tearful Ms Knox added she was "grateful" following the judgement by Italy's top court, which brings an eight-year legal saga to a close.

"I'm still absorbing the present moment, which is full of joy," she told reporters outside her family home in Seattle.

Ms Knox also said she was thankful "for the justice I've received and for the support I've had from everyone - from my family, from my friends, to strangers. I'm so grateful to have my life back".

Asked about Ms Kercher, she replied: "Meredith was my friend. She deserved so much in this life. I'm the lucky one." 

Ms Kercher's family said they were shocked by the judges' ruling, although they knew it was a possibility.

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  1. Gallery: Meredith Kercher Murder: Key Events

    2 November 2007: The body of Meredith Kercher, 21, is found in her Perugia apartment. Investigators say she was killed the night before

Ms Kercher's flatmate, Amanda Knox, is pictured kissing her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito in the days after the murder

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Police investigate the scene of the crime

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6 November 2007: Knox is arrested along with Sollecito and Diya 'Patrick' Lumumba, the Congolese owner of the pub where Knox occasionally worked

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20 November 2007: Mr Lumumba, implicated by Knox in her statements to police, is released from jail for lack of evidence

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Drone-Style Systems Could Stop Future Crashes

Technology offers the hope that the Germanwings plane disaster will never happen again, experts have told Sky News.

Systems are already in place to fly unmanned planes from the ground, but they are currently only used in the military sphere.

French prosecutors have said that the captain of the Germanwings plane was locked out of the cockpit as Andreas Lupitz sent the Airbus A320 into a mountain in the French Alps.

In 2009, Honeywell was awarded a patent for a fly-by-wire system that could take control of a plane's cockpit controls and remotely pilot a commercial plane to prevent "unauthorised-flight" and maintain "stable flight".

It has been suggested that the system or others like it could have helped prevent not only the Germanwings disaster but also the disappearance of MH370 if there had been a way to alert ground staff to an on-board emergency.

Mischa Dohler, Head of King's College London's Centre for Telecommunications Research, told Sky News: "We have all the technology in place so the aircraft can talk to the ground directly or via the satellite link, so that is all possible. It's just a question of cost.

"At the end of the day, you just need to pay for the infrastructure or a data plan, in the same way as you might pay for your mobile phones.

"The airlines have to decide whether they are willing to invest that money to add that extra real-time safety to airplanes."

David Cummins, Head of Flight Operations at UMS Aerogroup and an expert on unmanned aircraft, said: "We not at the stage where we are talking about autonomous systems that will operate and look after the aircraft.

"We are talking about automated systems where ultimately man, an operator, will always be in the loop."

He told Sky News there are systems in existence that could keep a plane safer without requiring one to be controlled from the ground.

"We need a number of years (before) we will ever see the first unmanned commercial aircraft but there are checks and balances that can be put into play.

"You can look at collision avoidance - the Germanwings is an example - there is technology that exists and is in place that could help.

"There's also sense-and-avoid systems on aircraft that will also be the pilot's eyes on an aircraft. So there are a number of steps we can take.

"We are years away from doing it, but the technology exists and its about putting the time and effort and ultimately the finance.

"What the aviation industry is very good at is not knee-jerk reaction. You've got to remember that this is still an incredibly safe method of travel."


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Nigeria Goes To The Polls Amid Boko Haram Threat

Nigeria Goes To The Polls Amid Boko Haram Threat

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By Alex Crawford, Special Correspondent, in Kano

Millions of Nigerians have gone to the polls in the most hotly contested campaign since the end of military rule.

But voting - which had previously been postponed for six weeks - was hit by sporadic violence as gunman forced people to abandon polling stations in Gombe state and car bombings in Enugu state.

At least seven people were reported to have killed as militants opened fire on crowds waiting to cast their ballots.

The earlier postponement, encouraged by the military, came after officials said they were worried about security concerns caused by the terror group Boko Haram.

It was a move frowned on by international observers and heavily criticised by the main opposition candidate who saw it as a tactic by the ruling party to gain more time and more votes.

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  1. Gallery: After Weeks Of Postponement The Election Begins In Nigeria

    A woman holds her voter card to register in Daura, northern Nigeria ahead of polling stations opening

A policeman drives an official of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to a polling station

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Election officials arrive with electoral documents

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The main opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Mohammadu Buhari, watches his wife, Aisha register to vote

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Presidential candidate, Mohammadu Buhari, of the main opposition APC, raises fist after registering to vote

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Nigeria Goes To The Polls Amid Boko Haram Threat

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By Alex Crawford, Special Correspondent, in Kano

Millions of Nigerians have gone to the polls in the most hotly contested campaign since the end of military rule.

But voting - which had previously been postponed for six weeks - was hit by sporadic violence as gunman forced people to abandon polling stations in Gombe state and car bombings in Enugu state.

At least seven people were reported to have killed as militants opened fire on crowds waiting to cast their ballots.

The earlier postponement, encouraged by the military, came after officials said they were worried about security concerns caused by the terror group Boko Haram.

It was a move frowned on by international observers and heavily criticised by the main opposition candidate who saw it as a tactic by the ruling party to gain more time and more votes.

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  1. Gallery: After Weeks Of Postponement The Election Begins In Nigeria

    A woman holds her voter card to register in Daura, northern Nigeria ahead of polling stations opening

A policeman drives an official of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to a polling station

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Election officials arrive with electoral documents

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The main opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Mohammadu Buhari, watches his wife, Aisha register to vote

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Presidential candidate, Mohammadu Buhari, of the main opposition APC, raises fist after registering to vote

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