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One meal a day: Yemeni mothers try to feed their families
ADEN, Yemen - The young mother stepped onto the scale for the doctor. Even with all her black robes on, she weighed only 84 pounds - 38 kilograms. Umm Mizrah is pregnant, but starving herself to feed ...
May 3, 2018
Transgender inmate says she was raped despite raising fears
DENVER - A transgender inmate who is suing Colorado’s corrections agency says she was raped at a men’s prison hours after a federal judge denied her request to block the prison from keepin...
May 3, 2018
Group running asylum caravan fears spotlight comes at a cost
TIJUANA, Mexico - The group that organized a monthlong caravan of Central Americans seeking asylum in the United States wanted to draw attention to the plight of people fleeing violence. If headlines ...
May 3, 2018
Texas officials ignore dioxin spread in Houston waterways
HIGHLANDS, Texas - Evelyn and Jerome Matula were still polka-dancing newlyweds in 1950 when they spotted a half-finished cottage in the woods along the San Jacinto River east of Houston. It seemed idy...
May 3, 2018
Tough road for Iraq's female candidates in May 12 elections
BAGHDAD - Iraqi women running for parliament this month are undaunted, despite many challenges they face ahead of the May 12 elections - including unprecedented smear campaigns complete with sex video...
May 3, 2018
German nurse's abduction in Somali capital raises fears
MOGADISHU, Somalia - As night fell, gunmen sneaked into the International Committee of the Red Cross compound in Somalia’s capital through a back door and seized a German nurse and a local colle...
May 3, 2018
Trump: 'Stay tuned' for news on Americans detained in NKorea
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is hinting there soon may be an update on the three Americans being held captive in North Korea. Trump tweeted Wednesday: “As everybody is aware, the past Adm...
May 3, 2018
Poverty-stricken Armenians pin hopes on opposition
LUSAGYUGH, Armenia - The local tax inspector would visit Alik Stepanyan’s small fishery in an Armenian mountain village every month to collect a bribe. Each time, Stepanyan would hand over 15 to...
May 3, 2018
Basque survivors warn against forgetting ETA's violence
MADRID - The disbanding of ETA, the Basque militant group that stained Spain’s return to democracy with blood, arrived as bittersweet news for Inaki Garcia, whose father died at its hands 38 yea...
May 3, 2018
China congratulates North Korea's Kim on reducing tensions
BEIJING - China’s foreign minister congratulated North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Thursday on his moves to reduce tensions with South Korea, China said. Their meeting in Pyongyang underscored ...
May 3, 2018