Two firefighters shot dead in US

THE police chief in Webster, New York, says that four firefighters were shot while responding to a blaze in the town and that two are dead. Chief Gerald Pickering says "one or more shooters" fired at the firefighters Monday morning. Officials say...

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Hundreds of Congo kids in foster homes

SEVERAL hundred children remain separated from their parents a month after fighting over the key eastern Democratic Republic of Congo city of Goma displaced nearly a million people, aid agencies say. Since the M23 rebels seized Goma on November...

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Drone kills two al-Qaeda suspects in Yemen

TWO al-Qaeda members, including a Jordanian, have been killed in a suspected US drone strike in Yemen, government and tribal sources say. "A drone strike targeted a vehicle killing two al-Qaeda members - a Yemeni and a Jordanian" in Manaseh...

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Fire in Syrian refugee camp kills boy

OFFICIALS say a tent in a Syrian refugee camp in southern Turkey has caught fire, killing a two-year-old boy and injuring four siblings. A government official said the fire, triggered by an electric heater, engulfed a tent in the Telhamut refugee...

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China busts child trafficking rings

CHINESE police have rescued 89 children and arrested 355 suspects after busting a series of child trafficking rings, officials say. Officers from nine regions, including Fujian, Yunnan, Sichuan, Anhui and Guangdong, took part in a joint drive...

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US stocks lower on fiscal cliff pessimism

US stocks have opened lower at the start of a shortened Christmas Eve session amid pessimism about prospects for a "fiscal cliff" deal by the end of the year. In the first few minutes of trade on Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was...

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Top Putin foe Navalny faces new charges

RUSSIAN investigators have opened their third criminal case in five months against an opposition leader who poses one of the main challenges to President Vladimir Putin in opinion polls. The Investigative Committee said it had charged anti-corruption...

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Mandela spends Christmas in hospital

AILING icon Nelson Mandela is spending Christmas Day in hospital, the South African government says, dashing hopes for a festive end to his longest stay in care since being released from prison in 1990. "Former president Nelson Mandela will spend...

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