World's top cocoa producers fight to protect forests

Top cocoa producers fight to protect forests from illegal farms that feed global chocolate
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UN rights chief: Syria siege involved 'war crimes'

The UN human rights chief told an informal meeting of the Security Council Monday that the Syrian government's siege of the Damascus suburbs of eastern Ghouta has involved "pervasive war crimes," use of chemical weapons and starvation as a weapon of war.
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Cuban is youngest male field event winner at world indoors

Juan Miguel Echevarria has become the youngest male field event winner by taking the long jump and Katarina Johnson-Thompson has claimed her first global title in the pentathlon at the world indoor athletics championships in Birmingham
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On a monthlong cruise of Africa, a gambol in Gambia

One way to tour Africa? On a monthlong cruise with shore excursions, including a gambol in Gambia
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Ivory Coast Arrests Six in Ring That Smuggled Parts of Elephants, Leopards and Pangolins

The crackdown follows another major bust of an ivory trafficking network in Gabon
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Smuggling boat sinks in Mediterranean, 64 feared dead

The UN migration agency has raised the probable death toll to 64 in the weekend sinking of a smugglers' rubber dinghy in the Mediterranean Sea off Libya
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