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A paramilitary soldier examines a damaged bus at the site of a suicide bombing, in Naushki, a district in southwestern Pakistan's Balochistan province, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (AP Photo)

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Suicide car bomber hits buses carrying security forces, killing 7 in southwestern Pakistan
Sun,03/16/25-2:40AM , 124 Reads
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide car bomber targeted a convoy of buses carrying security forces in restive southwestern Pakistan on Sunday, killing at least five officers and two civilians, the military and police said
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Aminata Doumbia, president of the women's group, sits next to a pit on farmland that was leased with help from USAID but has not yet been cultivated because the funding has ceased in Kimbirila-Nord, Ivory Coast, Feb. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

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Ivory Coast is losing US aid as al-Qaida and other extremist groups are approaching
By MONIKA PRONCZUK AND MISPER APAWU - Associated Press
Sun,03/16/25-12:22AM , 121 Reads
KIMBIRILA-NORD, Ivory Coast (AP) — With its tomato patches and grazing cattle, the Ivory Coast village of Kimbirila-Nord hardly looks like a front line of the global fight against extremism. But after jihadis attacked a nearby community in Mali five years ago and set up a base in a forest straddling the border, the U.S.
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A man waits for his drug's lab results at the Check Your Substance booth that offers free drug testing, where people can confirm their drug does not contain adulterants or fentanyl, at a three-day electronic music festival in Mexico City, late Friday, Jan. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Aurea Del Rosario)

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Facts, not fear: Inside Mexico's pioneering drug harm reduction programs
By CATERINA MORBIATO - Associated Press
Sun,03/16/25-12:02AM , 106 Reads
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Under warm strobe lights and pulsing house beats, a recent festival in Mexico City offered more than music, food and booze. Amidst the usual festival fare, a booth provided free, anonymous drug testing.
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A 28-year-old mother of four who was gang-raped by armed men while collecting firewood, enters a makeshift house in Juba displacement camp, South Sudan, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

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Can technology help more survivors of sexual assault in South Sudan?
By SAM MEDNICK - Associated Press
Sat,03/15/25-11:30PM , 74 Reads
JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — After being gang-raped by armed men while collecting firewood, the 28-year-old tried in vain to get help. Some clinics were closed, others told her to return later and she had no money to access a hospital.
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