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Interpol-led crackdown on environmental crime nets 225 arrests in Latin America

Interpol-led crackdown on environmental crime nets 225 arrests in Latin America

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A two-month multinational police operation spanning nine Latin American countries resulted in 225 arrests for environmental crime and hundreds of new investigations into il...

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United Nations to cut 25% of its global peacekeeping force

United Nations to cut 25% of its global peacekeeping force

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations will begin slashing its peacekeeping force and operations, forcing thousands of soldiers in the next several months to evacuate far-flung global hotspots a...

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Swimming drone explores underwater mountain in Lake Superior

Swimming drone explores underwater mountain in Lake Superior

Known to some as the “Freshwater Everest,” if you want to explore this mountain, you don’t go up, you go down. In the middle of Lake Superior, near the boundary between Canadian and US waters, sit...

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Chinese architect Yu Kongjian killed in plane crash in Brazil’s Pantanal wetlands

Chinese architect Yu Kongjian killed in plane crash in Brazil’s Pantanal wetlands

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A small aircraft has crashed in Brazil, killing four people including the distinguished Chinese architect and urbanist Yu Kongjian, Brazil’s vice president said on Wednesday....

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Ambush in flashpoint region killed at least 14 Nigerien soldiers, authorities say

Ambush in flashpoint region killed at least 14 Nigerien soldiers, authorities say

An ambush by armed men in a flashpoint region in military-run Niger last week killed at least 14 soldiers, the country’s defense minister said in a statement, the latest in escalating militant att...

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