Cancer has replaced cardiovascular disease as the leading cause of death in China’s capital, Amnesty International released its annual compilation of capital punishment trends, and the caretaker president of Guinea-Bissau is …
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Colombia’s president slams “enemies” for “poisoning” peace negotiations with the FARC rebels, foreign companies are looking to Cambodia to limit their overreliance on Chinese factories and Argentinians have celebrated the news of …
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WHO says strain of bird flu found in humans for the first time in China is not a cause for panic, and the Catholic Church in Western Europe and the U.S. have a severe shortage of priests
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North Korea raises the stakes, glacial ice that took 1,600 years to form has melted in just 25 years in Peru’s Andes and a flagship Indian jobs program has been defrauded of around $10 billion by local officials
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Leaders in Africa refuse to recognize a rebel leader as the new president of Central African Republic and Japan’s central bank is set to announce a new billion-dollar plan
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The U.N. signs the first treaty to regulate the global arms trade, Malaysia will have a general election later this month, and the world’s poorest countries said they will commit to cutting their greenhouse gas emissions
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March is the deadliest month so far in Syria’s two-year conflict, Sudan orders the release of political prisoners, and Greece’s far-right Golden Dawn party is planning to expand abroad
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Chile’s ex-president Michelle Bachelet will run for re-election, Indian activists try to fight fake godmen and the brother of Britain’s opposition leader has announced his retirement from politics
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The ruler of Qatar proposes a $1 billion-fund to help Palestinians in East Jerusalem, Peru declares an environmental state of emergency in its rainforest, and British judges have ruled that an Islamic preacher wanted on terrorism …
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Many Brazilian supermarkets will avoid meat from cattle raised in the Amazon, Malaysia – not China – is Asia’s top investor in Africa and Italian Supreme Court judges ruled that Amanda Knox should stand retrial for the death of …
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North Korea is believed to be training teams of “cyber warriors”, poverty in Bulgaria pushes people over the edge and British Prime Minister David Cameron is to announce plans to restrict access to welfare, housing and free …
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The U.N. will investigate whether Syria’s rebel forces used chemical weapons in a rocket attack, Brazilian lawmakers debate abortion reform, and Chad rebels threaten to restart rebellion against country’s government
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The Australian government apologies for its forced adoption policy from the 1950s to ’70s, Brasilia turns to the U.N. to help prepare its World Cup stadium and the Archbishop of Canterbury has underlined the challenges facing the …