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| Attack on Afghan government compound kills 7 Thu, 17 May 2012 08:00:27 GMT KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- A group of suicide bombers armed with explosive-laden vests, automatic weapons and rocket propelled grenades stormed a government compound Thursday in western Afghanistan, killing at least seven people, officials said.... |
| Prosecutors lay out Srebrenica case against Mladic Thu, 17 May 2012 07:24:18 GMT THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- Prosecutors on Thursday were outlining their evidence of the alleged involvement of former Bosnian Serb military chief Gen. Ratko Mladic in Europe's worst mass murder since World War II, the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.... |
| North Korean boat hijacks 3 Chinese fishing boats Thu, 17 May 2012 07:55:07 GMT BEIJING (AP) -- A North Korean boat hijacked three boats with 29 Chinese fishermen on board and demanded 1.2 million yuan ($190,000) for their release, Chinese media reported Thursday.... |
| Pakistani air force planes crash, 4 pilots killed Thu, 17 May 2012 06:59:23 GMT PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- Two Pakistani air force planes crashed in a residential area in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, killing all four pilots on board and injuring five people on the ground, police said.... |
| Activist: China to have passports ready in 2 weeks Thu, 17 May 2012 06:19:06 GMT BEIJING (AP) -- The activist who was at the center of a diplomatic tussle between Beijing and Washington said Thursday that Chinese officials have told him the passports that he and his family just applied for should be ready within two weeks. A rights group, meanwhile, described more retaliation by authorities against his family.... |
| Malaysia sentences 3 Mexicans to death over drugs Thu, 17 May 2012 05:24:55 GMT KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- A Malaysian court on Thursday sentenced to death three Mexican brothers and two other people for drug trafficking, rejecting the defense argument that evidence was tampered with.... |
| UK's Cameron urges action to resolve euro crisis Thu, 17 May 2012 08:04:39 GMT LONDON (AP) -- British Prime Minister David Cameron is urging Europe to sort out its currency crisis, calling on the 17-country eurozone to "to make-up or it is looking at a potential break-up.... |
| Greece gets caretaker PM until new vote in June Thu, 17 May 2012 01:12:23 GMT ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- A senior judge has been sworn in to head Greece's caretaker government for a month as the debt-crippled country lurches through a political crisis that threatens its membership in the 17-nation eurozone.... |
| Syrian leader says terrorists are behind unrest Wed, 16 May 2012 21:36:43 GMT BEIRUT (AP) -- In his first interview since December, Syrian President Bashar Assad insisted Tuesday his regime is fighting back against foreign mercenaries who want to overthrow him, not innocent Syrians aspiring for democracy in a yearlong uprising.... |
| Charles Taylor: Sorry for those hurt by war crimes Wed, 16 May 2012 16:49:53 GMT LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- Convicted war criminal and former Liberian President Charles Taylor said during his sentencing hearing Wednesday that he sympathizes with victims of the civil war in Sierra Leone he helped foment, and asked judges to render their sentence against him in a spirit of "reconciliation, not retribution."... |
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for May 17, 2012 is:
maffick • \MAF-ik\ • verb
: to celebrate with boisterous rejoicing and hilarious behavior
Examples:
Fans mafficked for hours outside the stadium, celebrating the team's dramatic victory in the division championship.
"In half an hour, after the mildest of mafficking, the last visitors of the exhibition's last day had gone out of the gates and the staff began their final acts of closing up shop." — From an article in The Guardian (London), October 1, 2011
Did you know?
"Maffick" is an alteration of Mafeking Night, the British celebration of the lifting of the siege of a British military outpost during the South African War at the town of Mafikeng (also spelled Mafeking) on May 17, 1900. The South African War was fought between the British and the Afrikaners, who were Dutch and Huguenot settlers originally called Boers, over the right to govern frontier territories. Though the war did not end until 1902, the lifting of the siege of Mafikeng was a significant victory for the British because they held out against a larger Afrikaner force for 217 days until reinforcements could arrive. The rejoicing in British cities on news of the rescue produced "maffick," a word that was popular for a while, especially in journalistic writing, but is now relatively uncommon.