Hippos and humans learning to live in peace in DR Congo
Just how do you calm down a rampaging hippopotamus? Or even a herd of angry hippos. On the banks of…
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Morocco bid to free boy from well reaches nerve-wracking final stages
Moroccan rescuers were in the nerve-wracking final stages Friday of a marathon effort to rescue Rayan,…
Read MoreAfter eight years of war, Ukraine’s army a tougher prospect
When he arrived at the front line as a volunteer to fight Russian-backed separatists in 2014, Pavlo…
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‘Bless that woman’: Hondurans look to tiny icon, and a new president, for hope
Thousands of Honduran believers descended on their country’s most famous religious icon Thursday,…
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‘Incredibly complex’: the raid that killed IS chief
By early December, US intelligence was certain of it: the man occupying the top floor of a nondescript…
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Germany blocks German-language Russian channel
The German broadcasting regulator said Wednesday it had banned the transmission of the German-language…
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German cardinal urges lifting celibacy rule for priests
German Cardinal Reinhard Marx, whose archdiocese was the subject of a recent damning report into child…
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Rape stalks women in C. Africa’s dirty war
Maia looks down at her expanding belly, her eyes welling with tears. Four months ago, an armed…
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UN agency says gaps in Belarus flight rerouting probe
The UN aviation agency on Monday extended its investigation into a bomb warning aboard a Ryanair flight…
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Putin to host EU ally Orban amid Ukraine crisis
Russian President Vladimir Putin will host talks Tuesday with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban,…
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