World
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Officials say 340 people have been stricken with a mysterious sickness on a cruise ship in northeastern Brazil.
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An American man wanted in Texas on child sex abuse charges was arrested Thursday in Thailand and could be sent to the U.S. within days, the district attorney's office in Houston said.
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Opposition members accused of being involved in a bomb plot in Zimbabwe say they were tortured into making false confessions.
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Israeli soldiers opened fire Thursday on a truck attempting to deliver humanitarian aid to the beleaguered Gaza Strip, killing one United Nations-contracted driver and seriously wounding another, U.N. officials said.
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Gunmen fatally shot a U.N. World Food program worker Thursday in Somalia during a food distribution - the second staff member killed this week, the agency and witnesses said.
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Gunmen on a motorcycle Thursday shot and killed the editor of a Sri Lankan newspaper critical of the government, the second violent attack on media this week.
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Two hikers have apparently died after a sheet of ice fell on them on New Zealand's Fox Glacier, authorities said Thursday.
