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Govt 'blocks killing probe'

[2015-08-19 07:46]

An international human rights body said on Monday that Mexico's government denied it interviews with military personnel in the case of 43 students who were abducted and apparently massacred last year.

Clinton e-mails may contain classified data

[2015-08-19 07:46]

The US State Department review of Hillary Rodham Clinton's e-mails so far has found as many as 305 messages that could contain classified information and require further scrutiny by federal agencies, the department said on Monday.

S. Sudan govt refuses to sign peace deal as sanctions deadline ends

[2015-08-19 07:46]

South Sudan's government refused to sign a peace deal with rebels on Monday despite the threat of international sanctions, but will return to finalize an agreement within 15 days, mediators said.

IN BRIEF (Page 12)

[2015-08-19 07:46]

Chinese companies operating in Namibia have created more than 6,000 jobs for local people, Chinese ambassador to Namibia Xin Shunkang said.

Saltwater plants give farms hope

[2015-08-18 07:37]

On a sun-scorched wasteland near India's southern tip, an unlikely garden filled with spiky shrubs and spindly greens is growing, seemingly against all odds.

Screening against cancers gets boost

[2015-08-18 07:37]

Niger has stepped up the fight against breast and cervical cancer, using screening and public awareness campaigns to reverse a scourge affecting more and more women in the prime of life.

Thousands lose livelihood in coca eradication campaign

[2015-08-18 07:37]

Edma Duran uses a machete to salvage leaves from the family's coca plot, which government workers have just destroyed in a record-breaking, US-backed eradication campaign that has affected roughly 500,000 Peruvians.

Legal moonshine offers kick, taste without the danger

[2015-08-18 07:37]

Brewed illicitly by generations of villagers in Belarus, a legal version of the country's notoriously fiery samogon moonshine has now gone into mass production.

Around the world

[2015-08-18 07:37]

About 1,000 people, reportedly a world record, participated in a group hug around the base of one of Australia's oldest steel lighthouses over the weekend.

Searchers spot plane wreckage in mountain

[2015-08-18 07:37]

A search plane has spotted the wreckage of an Indonesian passenger plane that disappeared with 54 people on board, smoke still billowing from it in a rugged area in eastern Papua province, rescue officials said on Monday.

Migrants wait to take shortest route

[2015-08-18 07:37]

Suddenly, almost silently, a group of young men carrying a small plastic dinghy emerges from the darkness, dashes across a road and a dirty strip of sand and plunges into the crystal-clear waters of the Aegean Sea.

US to withdraw Patriot missiles in October

[2015-08-18 07:37]

Turkey and the United States said on Sunday that Washington would withdraw its Patriot missile batteries from Turkey in October after bolstering Ankara's air defenses against threats from Syria's civil conflict.

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