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Peacemakers lose hope for quick end to Cyprus divide
NICOSIA (Reuters) - After decades of braving insults, harassment and even violence in their efforts to bring rival communities in Cyprus together, peace activists on the divided ...
War on opium gives Golden Triangle a different hue
PHONGSALI, Laos (Reuters) - The mountains of northern Laos have changed color.
Fame goes to film director Cuaron's heart not head
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Fame has not gone to Mexican film director Alfonso Cuaron's head but to his heart.
Kazakhs hunt with eagles to honor, preserve past
CHENGELSY GORGE, Kazakhstan (Reuters) - With its piercing eyes fixed on a frightened fox, the golden eagle swoops down from the sky, its huge wings blending into the shadows of the ...
Radios teach Zambian children under trees
LUSAKA, Zambia (Reuters) - The children have trekked through mud and overgrown grass to sit under a guava tree and be taught by a radio.
Morocco anti-cannabis drive draws praise, rebukes
AL KOULLA, Morocco (Reuters) - Morocco's drive to stamp out cannabis cultivation has won praise abroad, but farmers in the world's top hashish producer say they face destitution ...
Venice mask makers give old tradition a new twist
VENICE, Italy (Reuters) - Come Carnival time, Mario Belloni is a busy man.
Old men rule in aging Italy
ROME (Reuters) - "Time and age have no effect on me," Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi recently boasted, showing off the wonders of a face-lift and hair transplant that make him look ...
Investors wary of Guatemala gold mine opposition
SIPACAPA, Guatemala (Reuters) - A Mayan protester lost his life trying to stop Guatemala's first 21st century gold mine from opening last year, and resistance may yet upset miners' ...
Underpaid and undervalued: Kenyan nurses lured away
NAIROBI (Reuters) - In a dimly lit ward at Nairobi's Kenyatta Hospital, Florence explains why she has lost heart in what was once a revered profession.
Smiling Silvio assails Italians in election run-up
ROME (Reuters) - Lucia Ricci was beginning to think Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was following her.
Floodwater gone but fear remains in Haiti's Gonaives
GONAIVES, Haiti (Reuters) - Along the banks of Haiti's now bone-dry La Quinte river, tiny concrete-block homes have replaced mud huts swept away by Tropical Storm Jeanne's floods 17 ...
Saudi Shi'ites enjoy new freedoms laced with fears
QATIF, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - For Shi'ites living on Saudi Arabia's east coast, freedom is an invisible line in the sand.
Filipino farmers suffer drought of Marcos money
GUIMBA, Philippines (Reuters) - Gregorio Concepcion did not hesitate in 2004 when he was chosen to plant hybrid rice on his small farm in a northern province known as the rice bowl of ...
Chef prepares Peruvian cuisine to conquer the world
LIMA, Peru (Reuters) - Peru, the land that gave us the tomato and the potato, has another gastronomic gift to the world: a chef named Gaston Acurio.
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