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LAGOS, Nigeria – Twenty years after a Nigerian military regime hanged activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, his Niger Delta homeland remains blighted…
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Following weeks of calm in Greek crisis, tensions resurfacing over payment of bailout loans
BRUSSELS – Greece is at loggerheads — again — with European creditors over its bailout promises. Following a period of…
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PARIS – France’s defense ministry says a French airstrike has targeted an oil distribution center in Syria controlled by the…
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Heavy smog shrouds northeastern China as winter begins
BEIJING – Air quality reached extremely hazardous levels in the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang, as northern China began to…
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6 sentenced to death for torturing 2 young boys to death in Bangladesh
DHAKA, Bangladesh – Courts in Bangladesh have sentenced six people to death for torturing and killing two young boys earlier…
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