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Kenya is set to import its first genetically modified maize, the trade cabinet secretary has said, as the government seeks to ease food shortages caused by the country’s worst drought in 40 years. Local media reported that Kenya will on Friday authorize the duty-free importation of 10 million bags of maize over the next six
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Police in Northern Ireland avoided a suspected bombing attack on officers that damaged a police vehicle while the occupants remained unharmed. The attack occurred shortly before 11 p.m. Thursday night in Strabane, a town in Northern Ireland that sits some 80 miles west of Belfast, the capital city that sits near the border with the
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A passenger ferry carrying 271 people caught fire Wednesday off Indonesia’s resort island of Bali, but there were no immediate reports of casualties and evacuation efforts were ongoing, rescue officials said. The Mutiara Timur I was carrying 236 passengers and 35 crew members when it caught fire in the Bali Strait, about a mile from
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Five people, including the top security official for the central Mexico state of Aguascalientes, died in a helicopter crash Thursday, authorities said. MEXICO TO START VACCINATING BIRDS TO PREVENT THE SPREAD OF H5N1 The state public security helicopter crashed early Thursday morning near a hospital in Jesús María, Aguascalientes, killing state security chief Porfirio Sánchez
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A Turkish court has ordered 17 suspects jailed pending trial in connection with a deadly street bombing in Istanbul, accusing them of attempts against the unity of the state, deliberate killings and attempts to kill, Turkey’s state-run news agency reported Friday. The court released three other suspects from custody pending trial, Anadolu Agency reported. It
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Mexican prosecutors said Thursday they have opened an investigation into the death of a U.S. woman seen being beaten in a video that has gone viral. Prosecutors in the state of Baja California Sur said in a statement they are investigating the death of a woman they identified only as a foreigner, at a resort
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A van fell into a water-filled ditch in Pakistan’s flood-hit south, killing 20 passengers — mostly women and children — and injuring 13 others overnight, police said Friday. The incident on a flood-weakened highway took place in Sindh province on Indus Highway. The road had been dredged in several places to drain out floodwater, but
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Armed militants on Wednesday ambushed a routine police patrol in northwestern Pakistan, killing all six policemen in the vehicle, while a shootout with gunmen elsewhere in the volatile region killed two soldiers, officials said. The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the ambush in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which borders Afghanistan and has seen frequent attacks
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The Turks and Caicos Islands are a beautiful Caribbean hotspot, attracting hundreds of thousands of Americans each year, including celebrities and sports stars. However, a shocking spike in violent crime in the past two months has rocked the community, which has hosted vacation homes for the likes of Bruce Willis and Oprah Winfrey. The U.S.
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Iranian protesters set fire to the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini Museum Thursday night in the clearest and most direct act of defiance against the regime. Video of the event shows a fire spreading through the museum, which commemorated the founder of the regime and was established in his home after his death. In two clips obtained
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An appeals court on Friday overturned the conviction of a man who temporarily admitted murdering an American who fell to his death in 1988 from a Sydney cliff top that was known as a gay meeting place. Scott White, 52, was sentenced in May to 12 years and seven months in prison for the murder
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A multi-story building under construction collapsed on a neighboring home in the outskirts of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, killing two people on Thursday, authorities said. Three other people have been rescued alive from the family home that was next to the collapsed building located in the Ruaka suburb. A son of the couple killed in the
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