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Rio, which hosted the 2016 Olympic Games, has long suffered from street crime, with exchanges of gunfire common between drug-dealing gangs and police
Indonesian President Joko Widodo did not say when the ailing preacher would be released, but one of the cleric's lawyers said it could be as early as next week
Anastasia Vashukevich was held for questioning at a Moscow airport after she was deported from Thailand as part of a group convicted of participating in a 'sex training course'
Benny Gantz opened his social media campaign with a 17-second video clip that pledged "something different" for Israel, but which shed no light on his political beliefs -- the source of intense speculation ahead of April 9 elections
Nevertheless, the family of the slain skater is unhappy with the investigation and claims the murder was a pre-arranged 'order'
Cohen confirmed a Wall Street Journal report that in early 2015 he paid the head of a small technology firm, John Gauger, to write computer script that would place multiple votes for Trump in an online poll of news broadcaster CNBC
Currently, nearly a billion people are hungry and another 2 billion are eating too much of the wrong foods, causing epidemics of obesity, heart disease and diabetes
Global warming is melting ice in Antarctica faster than ever before -- about six times more per year now than 40 years ago -- leading to increasingly high sea levels worldwide, scientists warn
May warned lawmakers that rejecting the deal risked either a chaotic no-deal scenario or subverting British democracy by blocking Brexit
After a 10-year boom, analysts expect North American auto sales to contract in 2019
Scattered throughout the Russian city's outlying neighborhoods, the cinemas have for decades served as the center of communities
So far, $100 million has been spent on the project
It is the most frantic time of year for workers in cottage industry in Quang Phu Cau village on outskirts of Hanoi, where families have been making incense for more than a century
As its new combine works fields, it gathers data about soil conditions and monitors how corn and other crops are being harvested to reduce waste and improve efficiency
Repeating waves of this length are a mystery but not likely a sign of life
Last year also saw record 807 climbers reach summit of Mount Everest, including 563 summits from Nepal
The change means that — even though more than half of Brazil's population is black or of mixed race — a school book showing only white characters would be deemed acceptable for classrooms
His comments, posted in a series of messages on his Twitter account, reinforced Bolsonaro's declaration before he took office last week that he was going to pull Brazil out of the migration compact that was endorsed by the UN General Assembly in December
The Netherlands accused Iran Tuesday of involvement in the murder of two dissidents on Dutch soil
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