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On World AIDS Day, condom maker calls for safe-sex emoji
Condom maker Durex says so and is presenting a formal submission on Wednesday, World AIDS Day, to get coding consortium Unicode to ...Indonesia cites faulty component, crew response in AirAsia crash
Indonesian investigators said on Tuesday a chronically faulty component and the crew\'s attempt to fix the problem were among the factors that ...Turkey calls for opening of communication channels with Russia
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu called on Tuesday for the opening of communication channels between Turkey and Russia to prevent incidents like ...World leaders in Paris for climate-rescue summit
World leaders launched a whirlwind day of talks in the French capital on Monday aimed at forging an elusive agreement to stave ...Smog chokes Chinese, Indian capitals as climate talks begin
The capitals of the world\'s two most populous nations, China and India, were blanketed in hazardous, choking smog on Monday as climate ...At least 12 killed in attack by Ugandan rebels in eastern DR Congo
At least 12 people have been killed in an overnight attack blamed on Ugandan rebels in the restive east of the Democratic ...Israel convicts 2 youths in 2014 killing of Palestinian
A Jerusalem court convicted two Israeli minors on Monday of the kidnapping and burning alive of a Palestinian teenager in the run-up ...HIV drug stocks not reaching African patients: report
Efforts to get lifesaving antiretrovial drugs to HIV-positive patients in many sub-Saharan African countries are routinely failing at "the last mile", an ...Russian air strikes kill at least 30 in stepped up raids in northwest Syria
Air strikes believed to have been carried out by Russian jets killed at least 30 people in the town of Ariha in ...Paris climate activists plan human chain on global day of action
Activists plan to join arms and form a "human chain" in Paris on Sunday to urge action on global warming, in a ...