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Friday, September 18, 2015 - 06:36
One hundred and ten members of the security forces were dismissed Tunisian due to strong suspicions about their links to banned groups.
Friday, September 18, 2015 - 06:35
Even as peacekeeping has ballooned to become by far the most expensive of UN departments (in 2015 it will cost nearly $9bn to keep 120,000 blue helmet soldiers and policemen deployed in 16 countries, compared with just $500m at the end of the Cold War), it is dogged by challenges.
Friday, September 18, 2015 - 06:28
A military court in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday commuted a police officer's death sentence over the 2010 murder of prominent rights activist Floribert Chebeya and his driver.
Friday, September 18, 2015 - 06:25
Food shortages and cuts in farming jobs caused by a prolonged drought are driving thousands of people living in parts of Central America to leave their homes, according to new academic research.
Friday, September 18, 2015 - 06:22
The military general who has taken power in a coup in Burkina Faso says the October 11 date for planned national elections appears to be "too soon."
Friday, September 18, 2015 - 06:22
The Saudi-led coalition targeting Yemen's Shiite rebels pounded the insurgents' positions Thursday with heavy artillery fire on the outskirts of the central city of Marib, part of their push to retake the capital, Sanaa.
Friday, September 18, 2015 - 06:21
A Venezuelan fighter jet with two people on board crashed near the Colombian border late on Thursday evening after an "illicit aircraft" believed to be Colombian was found violating airspace, according to the Venezuelan government.
Friday, September 18, 2015 - 06:17
Egypt’s chief prosecutor issued a ban on news media coverage in the case of a weekend attack by the security forces that killed 12 people, including eight Mexican tourists and their Egyptian guides.
Friday, September 18, 2015 - 06:14
El Salvador risks sacrificing civil liberties and human rights in its war on terror against gangs. With a single ruling this past month, El Salvador’s Supreme Court fundamentally changed the country’s war on organized crime.
Friday, September 18, 2015 - 06:11
Federal authorities captured a suspected high-ranking drug cartel member who has been implicated in last year's disappearance of 43 college students in the southern state of Guerrero, officials said Thursday.