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The United States should reinstate a Clinton-era ban on assault weapons to prevent such guns from reaching Mexican drug cartels, former officials from both countries said in a report released Tuesday.
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Predominately white trade union Solidarity is taking South Africa’s government to court, alleging racial discrimination in the police force.
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Ethiopian rebels have launched a wide offensive in the southeastern Somali ethnic Ogaden region and recaptured seven towns from government forces, they claimed Saturday...
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Authorities have announced charges against the owner of a beauty clinic that allegedly performed a botched buttock job on Mexican rock star Alejandra Guzman.
The...
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A former leader of Congo’s Ninja militias has died in Paris, aged 76.
Bernard Kolelas was an MP in Congo at the time of his death and was a popular politician in...
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A Guinean court has charged a second son of the late President Lansana Conte with drug trafficking.
Moussa Conte and his three alleged associates deny importing...
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Saudi Arabia has evacuated 240 villages because of fighting with Yemeni rebels, the UN children’s fund has reported.
The Unicef statement said more than 50...
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Doctors in Iraq’s war-ravaged enclave of Falluja are dealing with up to 15 times as many chronic deformities in infants and a spike in early life cancers that may...
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U.S. Army Specialist Alexis Hutchinson, a single mother, is being threatened with a military court-martial if she does not agree to deploy to Afghanistan, despite...
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Algeria’s team bus was attacked by stone-throwing fans in Cairo on Thursday ahead of Saturday’s highly-charged World Cup qualifier against Egypt, police officials...
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In a cavernous warehouse amid rolling hills and dairy farms, a group of farmers recently gathered around a buyer in a conversation heralding a sea change in the United...
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A circus lion went on a night-time odyssey in Germany when thieves stole the van carrying him and then abandoned it after crashing into a road sign.
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Sarah Palin’s new book reprises familiar claims from the 2008 presidential campaign that haven’t become any truer over time. Ignoring substantial parts of...
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Girls’ expectations that they can “have it all” may be overly ambitious and they should not feel guilty for taking time out of future careers to raise...
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Florida police say a man arrested for repeatedly calling 911 looking for sex claimed it was the only number he could dial after running out of cell phone minutes. Tampa...
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Colombian stocks and bonds will fall if market-friendly President Alvaro Uribe is barred by the courts from running for a third term next year, a ruling that would...
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The document calls for a “combination of carrot and stick” to encourage Taliban commanders and foot soldiers to lay down their arms and rejoin Afghan...
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People hurled stones and eggs at the Kosovan prime minister’s convoy this week, a spurt of violence just days before the one-time Serbian province holds its first...
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The bulletproof jacket worn on 26/11 by Hemant Karkare, the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) chief gunned down by terrorists, was among a lot
of 110 rejected first as...
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Gunmen shoot a priest and two seminary students in the back. Federal police storm a Mass to capture a suspected drug kingpin. Priests pray with the families of murdered...
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Heavy snow has left 21 people dead in north and central China since Monday, the Ministry of Civil Affairs announced (MCA) Friday.
The ministry did not detail the...
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Instead, led by the boy’s older brother, members of the community traveled to the state capital, Chihuahua, to demand that the government catch the kidnappers. Nobody...
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The Obama administration plans to use a combination of new technology and old-fashioned police work to crack down on the extensive drug trade along the U.S.-Mexican...
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“He is said to love the ladies, fast horses and dissolving enemies in lye.”
Teodoro Garcia Simental seems to be the most well known, but completely...
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When U.S. law enforcement officials last month busted a Mexican drug cartel moving tons of dope and millions of dollars, they announced it in Atlanta.
The distribution...
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The 1,800-square-mile Sequoia National Forest that is popular with Mexican marijuana-growing cartels is also home to some of the most intensely polluted pockets of...
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The government of Mexico hopes to create yet another heavily developed strip of sand for tourists interested in golf courses, hotels and condos, and President Felipe...
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