200 additional Kenyan police arrive in Haiti in UN-backed mission to fight criminal gangs
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (news agencies) — A second contingent of 200 police officers from Kenya arrived Tuesday in Haiti to bolster ...
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Gambia upholds its ban on female genital cutting. Reversing it would have been a global first
BANJUL, Gambia (news agencies) — Lawmakers in the West African nation of Gambia on Monday rejected a bill that would ...
Read moreCocked rifles and infrared cameras along Cyprus buffer zone stoke tensions that could spread farther
NICOSIA, Cyprus (news agencies) — The clang of unseen assault rifles being cocked carries across the United Nations-controlled buffer zone ...
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UAE strongly condemns continuing Israeli violations in Gaza, targeting displaced people in Khan Younis
The United Arab Emirates has condemned and denounced in the strongest terms the continuing Israeli violations in the Gaza Strip, ...
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UN says world population to peak at 10.3 billion in the 2080s
NEW YORK: Earth’s population will peak in the mid-2080s at around 10.3 billion people, then drop slightly to a level ...
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Gaza authorities say 32 killed as Israel strikes across territory
Israeli strikes killed another 32 people in the Gaza Strip, the health ministry in the Hamas-ruled Palestinian territory said Friday, ...
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Officials plead for $9 million in aid weeks after Hurricane Beryl devastates the southeast Caribbean
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (news agencies) — People in the southeast Caribbean urgently need food, water and shelter nearly two ...
Read moreHead of US aid agency says Israel has pledged to improve safety for humanitarian workers in Gaza
ASHDOD, Israel (news agencies) — The head of the U.S. agency overseeing American humanitarian assistance worldwide on Thursday said she ...
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Thousands mark 1995 Srebrenica genocide which is denied by Serbs, fueling ethnic tensions in Bosnia
SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (news agencies) — Thousands of people from Bosnia and abroad gathered in Srebrenica on Thursday for the annual ...
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Dozens of people are sentenced to life in prison in a mass trial in the UAE criticized abroad
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (news agencies) — A mass trial in the United Arab Emirates of dissidents that was widely ...
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