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New app makes hailing Cairo taxi 'safe for women'

[2015-08-14 08:07]

When Sally Saied, a radio anchor in her 20s, can't find a cab in Cairo, she turns to Easy Taxi, a mobile app that connects passengers with specific taxis carrying its logo.

Police transferred after negligence claims

[2015-08-14 08:07]

Three Pakistani police officers accused of negligence have been transferred to other districts amid a deepening scandal over a pedophile ring alleged to have abused hundreds of children for nearly a decade, officials said on Wednesday.

Ban fires head of UN's Central African peacekeeping mission

[2015-08-14 08:07]

The UN secretary-general has fired the head of the UN peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic over the force's handling of a series of misconduct allegations, including rape and killing.

Former president Carter says he has cancer

[2015-08-14 08:07]

Former US president Jimmy Carter said on Wednesday that recent liver surgery revealed he has cancer that had spread to other parts of his body.

F-16 fighters fly on first missions from Turkey

[2015-08-14 08:07]

The US on Wednesday launched its first airstrikes by Turkey-based F-16 fighter jets against Islamic State targets in Syria, marking a limited escalation of a yearlong air campaign that critics have called excessively cautious.

PM vows to track, maybe limit, foreign buyers

[2015-08-14 08:07]

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper pledged on Wednesday to track and possibly limit foreign purchases of Canadian real estate if re-elected, but the move was not expected to slow down foreign buying soon.

IN BRIEF (Page 12)

[2015-08-14 08:07]

At least four police officers were killed by unknown gunmen in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi on Wednesday afternoon, local media reported.

Mapuche finally receive their country's respect

[2015-08-13 07:53]

Nestled between high-rise buildings on a busy street in Chile's modern capital is a straw hut that's a sign of growing respect for the Andean country's long-disdained indigenous past.

Clinical trials underway for hepatitis B vaccine

[2015-08-13 07:53]

A new Cuban-made vaccine against chronic hepatitis B has entered clinical trials in Cuba plus eight countries and regions in Oceania and Asia with the help of French company Abivax.

Good wine is daily elixir for oldest twin brothers

[2015-08-13 07:53]

Eating in moderation, drinking a glass of good wine every day and avoiding chasing women are the secrets of a long life, say Belgians Pieter and Paulus Langerock, the world's oldest living twin brothers.

Navajo Nation takes brunt of mine leak

[2015-08-13 07:53]

Russell Begaye stared into a hole in the side of a Colorado mountain, watching yellow water contaminated with heavy metals gush out and race down a slope toward a creek that feeds rivers critical to survival on the largest Native American reservation in the United States and in other parts of the Southwest.

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