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Malaysia Seizes Smuggled Tortoises Worth $300,000
Malaysian customs foiled an attempt to smuggle hundreds of the world's most endangered tortoises into the country from...
Italy Rescues 484 People From the Mediterranean
Seven bodies were recovered and 484 people were rescued from boats in the Mediterranean Sea while attempting to cross...
Ousted Ethics Chiefs Were Investigating ‘hundreds’ of Cases
"Hundreds" of cases of alleged wrongdoing - some involving senior officials - were being looked into by Fifa's ethics...
White House Meeting On Paris Climate Accord Postponed
A key White House meeting scheduled for Tuesday to discuss whether the United States will honor the Paris climate...
IS Afghanistan Leader Killed
The head of Islamic State in Afghanistan -- believed to be the mastermind behind several high-profile attacks including...
India Launches Major Kashmir Anti-Militant Operation
Indian security forces are searching for militants in the restive region of Kashmir in what is being called a major...
Pentagon To Request Thousands More Troops For Afghanistan Next Week
The Pentagon will ask the White House next week to send thousands more troops to Afghanistan to break a deadlocked...
Politics, Potholes and Price Drops
Kenya plans to export its first oil in June, but analysts say the test phase faces major challenges and appears...
20 Dead After Boat Capsizes In Senegal
At least 20 people, the vast majority of them women, were killed when a wooden boat capsized off the coast of central...
Singapore FA Raided In White-Collar Crime Probe
Singapore police Thursday raided the offices of the city-state's football governing body, which is in the throes of a...
Fire At Senegal Religious Retreat Kills 22
A fire tore through makeshift straw shelters at a Muslim religious retreat in Senegal, killing at least 22 people and...
Amnesty Attacks Thai Junta Ban On Online Contact With Dissidents
Amnesty International has slammed an unprecedented ban by Thailand's junta on using the internet to communicate with...
Post-Election Vigilante Violence Flares In Ghana
Ghanaians were horrified when members of a vigilante group loosely affiliated with the ruling party stormed a court to...
Myanmar Begins Shuttering Three Rakhine Camps
Myanmar has started shutting down three displacement camps in strife-torn Rakhine state, a senior official said...
S. Korea Prepares Grim Search For Sewol Ferry Remains
Salvage workers are set to begin the grim and dangerous task of searching the wreck of South Korea's Sewol ferry, the...
AFP Photographer Freed In Libya, Still Under Detention Threat
AFP's photographer in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, Abdullah Doma, was released Monday after two days of...
Vaccine Cost Cripples Response To Outbreak
Nigeria needs as many as 800,000 doses of the type C meningitis vaccine to deal with the outbreak Nigeria does not have...
US Arrests Turkish Banker On Charges of Violating Iran Sanctions
The US has arrested a senior official at a state-owned Turkish bank on charges of helping Iran violate US sanctions, a...
S.Korea Media Slam Govt Over Ferry ‘remains’
South Korean authorities faced a deluge of criticism Wednesday for announcing that human remains had been found from...