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NPR 2012-04-09

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Australia has upgraded its travel advisory to Indonesia after the fatal hotel bombings in Jakarta. The Department of Foreign Affairs in Canberra warns Australians to reconsider their need to travel to Indonesia because of the possibility of further t

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1. Civil rights leaders are calling for the creation of a citizens review board in North Charleston, South Carolina. NAACP leaders say they want the board to look into complaints of police brutality. The demand's come after a video surfaced of a whit