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Activists float leaflets, defying calls for restraint

[2015-01-21 07:56]

Activists from the Republic of Korea launched anti-Pyongyang leaflets on Monday night, ignoring calls for restraint.

Pyongyang criticizes ex-prisoner over recanted story of 'abuses'

[2015-01-21 07:56]

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea sought on Tuesday to discredit a man who claims to have been a prisoner in the DPRK who recently admitted inaccuracies in parts of a book about alleged abuses in the country of his birth.

Fight shapes up in Senate over Iran sanctions

[2015-01-21 07:56]

The US Congress and President Barack Obama are on a fast track toward confrontation over sanctions on Iran.

'Sewn lips' protest ends, but tensions simmer

[2015-01-21 07:56]

A protest involving hundreds of asylum seekers at an Australian immigration detention center in Papua New Guinea, some of whom had sewn their lips shut in protest, has ended without serious violence, authorities in both countries said on Tuesday.

UN: Boko Haram must end conflict

[2015-01-21 07:56]

The UN Security Council issued its first formal reaction on Monday to the threat posed by Boko Haram, urging the Nigerian militants to "disarm and demobilize".

Cameroon army frees 24 hostages

[2015-01-21 07:56]

Cameroon's army has freed 24 of about 80 hostages kidnapped during a cross-border attack by suspected Boko Haram Islamist fighters based in neighboring Nigeria, a Defense Ministry spokesman said on Monday.

'Glory days' translate into killings, kidnapping, hunger

[2015-01-21 07:56]

Boko Haram said it is building an Islamic state that will revive the glory days of northern Nigeria's medieval Muslim empires, but for those in its territory, life is a litany of killings, kidnappings, hunger and economic collapse.

Govt credits conservation with increase of wild tigers

[2015-01-21 07:56]

India's latest tiger census shows a sharp increase in the number of the endangered cats in the wild, raising hopes that conservation efforts are working, officials said on Tuesday.

Russia calls Kiev troop claims 'nonsense'

[2015-01-21 07:56]

Russia on Tuesday denied as "absolute nonsense" the latest accusations by Kiev that Moscow had sent hundreds of troops over the border into Ukraine.

IN BRIEF (Page 12)

[2015-01-21 07:56]

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez told a group of US senators and congressmen on Monday that his country is open to greater diplomatic and trade ties, but the congressional delegation did not meet with Cuban President Raul Castro.

Teen sisters reunite after IS kidnap

[2015-01-20 07:56]

Adeba Shaker, a 14-year-old from Iraq's minority Yazidi sect, recalled the day when she smiled again for the first time since her abduction by Islamic State militants.

New effort aimed at wiping out tuberculosis

[2015-01-20 07:56]

Health authorities committed 11.5 million pounds ($17.4 million) on Monday for a plan to tackle Britain's persistent tuberculosis problem, seeking to wipe the contagious lung disease out altogether.

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