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UN reports rise in women, children casualties in Afghan war
The United Nations said on Wednesday that an increasing number of women and children were getting hurt or killed in Afghanistan\'s war ...Chile takes first step towards legal abortion
Chile\'s Congress took its first step toward legalizing abortion in some cases, a practice that has been legally banned for decades in ...16 dead, 50 injured in Russia bus crash
At least 16 people were killed and more than 50 others were injured Wednesday when two buses collided head-on in far eastern ...Several killed as two trains derail in India
Two passenger trains derailed after being hit by flash floods on a bridge in central India, killing at least 27 people in ...Sudan says Bashir plans to speak at U.N. summit in New York
Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who has been indicted by the International Criminal Court on war crimes and genocide charges, is planning ...11 soldiers killed in attack on Mali camp
Eleven soldiers were killed Monday in a "terrorist" attack on their camp in northern Mali\'s Timbuktu region, a government statement said, an ...Pakistan executes man who killed child as minor
A Pakistani prison official says authorities have executed a man convicted of killing a 7-year-old boy in 2004, when he himself was ...US faces criticism over Trafficking in Persons report
Several U.S. politicians sharply criticized the Obama administration on Monday over an annual global report on human trafficking in response to a ...India signs peace agreement with Naga separatists
India signed a peace agreement on Monday with a leading tribal separatist group in the country\'s remote northeast that had waged guerrilla ...German justice minister sacks top prosecutor over treason row
Germany\'s justice minister on Tuesday fired the chief prosecutor in an escalating row sparked by a controversial treason case against a blog ...




