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Obama will slow troop withdrawal

[2015-03-26 07:35]

US President Barack Obama announced on Tuesday that no reduction of the 9,800 US troops stationed in Afghanistan will occur this year.

Aide denies president fled Aden; defense chief reportedly captured

[2015-03-26 07:35]

Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi remained in the southern port city of Aden on Wednesday after his tribal militia forces were defeated by the Shiite Houthi group in the neighboring Lahj province, a source at the presidential office told Xinhua.

US weighs supporting Palestinian state bid

[2015-03-26 07:35]

US President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that the United States is weighing whether to back Palestinian efforts to seek UN recognition for an independent state, and that recent remarks by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dim hope for a negotiated two-state solution.

Israeli spying report 'baffles' Speaker

[2015-03-26 07:35]

The leader of the US House of Representatives said on Tuesday that he's puzzled by reports that Israel spied on negotiators in the closed-door talks over Iran's nuclear program - a claim that Israeli officials deny.

Rhino rangers taught to catch poachers

[2015-03-26 07:35]

Gripping a semi-automatic rifle in his muscular right hand, anti-poaching instructor Simon Rood berates students for not taking their gun lessons seriously.

Slaves help supply food stores in West

[2015-03-26 07:35]

Eight slaves from Myanmar sat on the floor and stared through the rusty bars of their locked cage, hidden on a tiny tropical island thousands of miles from home.

Jolie has ovaries removed to avoid cancer risk

[2015-03-26 07:35]

Two years after a double mastectomy, actress Angelina Jolie has had her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed to avoid the risk of ovarian cancer, a move cancer experts described as courageous and influential.

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[2015-03-26 07:35]

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Skeletons bring past back to life

[2015-03-25 07:47]

London office workers are coming face to face with history hidden beneath their feet as 3,000 skeletons dating from the 16th century are dug up to make way for a new railway line.

'We're practicing medicine from the 1940s here'

[2015-03-25 07:47]

Oncologist Gabriel Romero performs hundreds of lifesaving surgeries a year, but he no longer takes pleasure in his work.

Trained rats sniff out TB bacteria

[2015-03-25 07:47]

Giant rats may strike fear and disgust into the hearts of homeowners worldwide, but researchers in impoverished Mozambique are turning some of them into heroes.

Zimbabwe has too many elephants

[2015-03-25 07:47]

Wildlife authorities of Zimbabwe say the country has more than 30,000 excess elephants, and that the animals are available both for export and internal relocation.

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