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Seven Mexican gunmen arrested in migrant massacre
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican authorities arrested seven suspected drug cartel members believed to have killed 72 migrants heading to the United States, in what is said to be the worst massacre in the country's escalating drug war, the government said on Wednesday.
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Honduras blames drug gangs for shoe shop killings
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduran police said on Wednesday street gangs connected to violent Mexican drug cartels are responsible for the massacre of 17 people in a shoe shop in the industrial city of San Pedro Sula.
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Clinton sees drug "insurgency" in Mexico and Central America
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Drug gangs in Mexico and Central America are morphing into an insurgency like that which gripped Colombia 20 years ago, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday, promising more U.S. help to fight traffickers.
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Ban asks Rwanda not to withdraw Sudan peacekeepers
KIGALI (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged Rwanda Wednesday not to end its peacekeeping operations in Sudan as he sought to defuse rising tensions over a leaked U.N report.
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Guards beat customers at crisis-hit Afghan bank
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan security forces used batons on unruly customers scrambling to withdraw their savings on Wednesday from a branch of the graft-hit Kabulbank, the country's biggest private financial institution.
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Merkel to honor Mohammed cartoonist at press award
BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel risked angering Muslims by speaking at an awards ceremony on Wednesday for a Dane whose cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed provoked sometimes violent protests by Muslims five years ago.
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Iran woman's stoning suspended after global outcry
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian authorities have suspended the execution by stoning of a woman convicted of adultery, the Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday, after weeks of condemnation from around the world.
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Fidel Castro says Cuban model no longer works
HAVANA (Reuters) - Fidel Castro said Cuba's economic model no longer works, a U.S.-based journalist reported on Wednesday following interviews with the former president last week.
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Pakistan to charge three men in Times Square plot
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan will soon charge three men with terrorism in connection with the failed attempt to bomb New York's Times Square, a police official said on Wednesday.
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Australian government prepared to adjust mining tax
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia's fragile Labor government suggested on Wednesday it could adjust a planned profits-based tax on mining companies to bend to demands of the independent MPs giving it a slender grip on power.
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Wildfires destroy over 400 homes in Siberia
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Wildfires swept through several villages in Siberia, burning down over 400 homes on Wednesday, Russia's Emergencies Ministry said, following a wave of blazes that killed over 50 people earlier in the summer.
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French unions call new strike in pension showdown
PARIS (Reuters) - French trade unions called another strike over unpopular pension reform after President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Wednesday he would not retreat on plans to raise the retirement age.
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Great apes protected as EU restricts animal testing
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Primates, including mankind's closest relatives -- chimpanzees, gorillas, bonobos and orangutans -- have gained new protection after the European Parliament backed a clampdown on animal testing.
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Bombs targeting Iraqi police kill three in Baghdad
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb and a roadside bomb exploded near a bus terminal in the Iraqi capital on Wednesday, killing three people and wounding a score of others, police and interior ministry sources said.
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UK prime minister's father dies in France
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron's father died on Wednesday after falling ill during a holiday in the south of France.
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Serbia bows to EU, softens stance on Kosovo
BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbia made a major concession to the European Union on Wednesday by agreeing to soften a draft U.N. resolution on the future of Kosovo and seek dialogue with the breakaway country.
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U.S. diplomat raps Russia on jailing, free assembly
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A top U.S. diplomat criticized Russia on Wednesday over the jailing of a prominent human rights activist and urged the Kremlin to respect the right to free assembly.
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Beijing protests as Japan arrests China boat captain
TOKYO/BEIJING (Reuters) - Japan has arrested the captain of a Chinese fishing boat that collided with two Japanese coast guard boats near disputed islets in the East China Sea, causing anger in Beijing and reigniting territorial tensions.
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East Timor deputy PM quits, coalition seen at risk
DILI (Reuters) - One of East Timor's two deputy prime ministers resigned on Wednesday after he said Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao called him a liar, posing a risk to stability of the ruling coalition of the world's youngest countries.
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U.N. agency to report fall in Afghan opium output
LONDON (Reuters) - A United Nations agency will report that opium poppy production has fallen in Afghanistan this year but there are enough stocks to keep supplying heroin production, the agency's new chief said on Wednesday.
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