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    California declared totally drought-free for first time in 7 years

    Fri, 15 Mar 2019 07:44 AM

    This week marks the first time since mid-December 2011 that 100 percent of the state has been classified as free of drought, after abundant winter rains and snowfall

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    FACTBOX-Nine facts about Syria as fresh violence marks ninth year of war

    Fri, 15 Mar 2019 10:52 AM

    Syria's war grew out of popular protests against President Bashar al-Assad and has laid waste to swathes of Syria, creating the world's largest refugee crisis

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    'Unworkable' U.S. system traps former sex slaves with criminal records

    Fri, 15 Mar 2019 09:22 AM

    While the majority of states now have laws on the books to aid trafficking victims with their criminal records, the federal government does not

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    Slow pace of peace in Colombia putting rights activists at risk - U.N.

    Fri, 15 Mar 2019 09:06 AM

    UN said 113 rights activists were killed last year, putting blame in part on a failure of the 2016 peace agreement to bring development to remote, rural and war-torn areas

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    George and Amal Clooney on justice mission for women and gay people

    Mon, 18 Mar 2019 14:42 PM

    The couple's foundation plans to launch a project to monitor trials and create an index to track which countries use courtrooms to oppress minorities and government critics

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    WHO says Ebola area contained but Congo needs long-term support

    Thu, 14 Mar 2019 20:52 PM

    The outbreak, the second worst in history, has killed 584 people in a region beset by violence and poverty

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    Burkina army investigating claims its troops carried out executions

    Thu, 14 Mar 2019 20:02 PM

    Human Rights Watch said that some of those killed were executed in front of their families. On Wednesday, a local rights group cited witnesses as saying 60 of the dead had been summarily executed

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    Former U.S. Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana, women's rights champion, dies at 91

    Thu, 14 Mar 2019 18:42 PM

    Bayh is best known as "the father of Title IX" - the measure that barred sex discrimination in schools in both academics and athletics

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    Proposal for U.N. to study climate-cooling technologies rejected

    Thu, 14 Mar 2019 22:43 PM

    Some countries, including the United States and Saudi Arabia, opposed the push to assess geoengineering, partly because it was based on a "precautionary" approach to the risks

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    Africa needs cash, science for new model of green development - leaders

    Fri, 15 Mar 2019 07:10 AM

    The region has huge potential to avoid mistakes made by fossil-fuel-heavy development in other places - but it will take support

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