Archive for the January 3, 2017
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Burundi police have arrested the head of the main union confederation over plans to organise tea farmers, who account for the country's second biggest export product, the union said Thursday. The president of the Burundi
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A dry spell in Argentina is posing a threat to soya production in southern parts of bread-basket province Buenos Aires, climate experts said last week, warning that the continued dryness expected in this area could
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New Year's Eve passed off peacefully enough in war-torn Ukraine - until a senior lawmaker shot a man in the leg during a testosterone-charged road rage incident. Ukrainians bored by a relative lack of news
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A minivan and a pickup truck both packed with passengers collided in eastern Thailand on Monday, killing 25 people in a harrowing reminder of the country's notoriously dangerous roads. Police said the minivan driver lost
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A court in Kuwait on Monday sentenced a couple to death after finding them guilty of torturing their three-year-old daughter until she died, it said in a statement. The parents, both Kuwaitis, were arrested in
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Opposing sides in the crisis that has gripped DR Congo will this week hold their first talks on implementing a landmark deal on the country's political future, mediators said Monday. "An initial meeting for deciding
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The iconic hillside sign overlooking Southern California's film-and-television hub was defaced overnight in honour of marijuana. Residents awoke on Sunday to find "Hollyweed" staring down at them in four-story, white letters from Los Angeles' Mount
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Colombian rebels may be preparing to lay down their guns, but the nation faces a deeper challenge to heal itself: treating mental illnesses stemming from the trauma of a half-century war. The 260,000 people killed
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A project to convert coal into oil in the north-western Chinese region of Ningxia, the biggest plant of its kind in the world, delivered its first shipment of products on Wednesday, the official China Daily
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Soyameal on the European meals and feeds market was offered mostly easier in slow trade on Friday, the last trading day of 2016. "Prices were mostly nominal and were not tested as there were not
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