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102 bodies found floating in Ganges River in India

LUCKNOW, India – Authorities were investigating Wednesday how more than 100 bodies, many of them children, ended up floating in an offshoot of the Ganges River in northern India. Officials do not suspect a crime, and instead believe the dead were given water burials. It is Indian custom not to …

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US unveils first plan of its kind to fight drug trafficking in Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The Obama administration has unveiled a new plan to fight drug trafficking in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands amid concerns that the flow of cocaine from the Caribbean to the U.S. has more than doubled in the past three years. It is the …

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New Yorker writer says he didn't write op-ed in Chinese state media run under his name

BEIJING – A New Yorker journalist famed for his reporting from China wrote that the state-run newspaper China Daily faked an editorial under his byline after interviewing him. Peter Hessler said on Facebook on Tuesday that he didn’t write the piece posted on China Daily’s website a day earlier titled …

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