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KONNA, Mali/PARIS (Reuters) – French and Malian forces fighting Islamist rebels took control yesterday of the rebel bastion of Gao, the biggest military success so far in an offensive against al Qaeda-allied insurgents occupying the country’s north.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Hackers sympathetic to the late computer prodigy Aaron Swartz claimed yesterday to have infiltrated the website of the US Justice Department’s Sentencing Commission, and said they planned to release government data.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Police raided a restaurant near Moscow and arrested four alleged crime bosses and 19 others as they met to plan strategy after the killing of a criminal godfather known as Grandpa Hassan, the interior ministry said today.

(Reuters) – At least 22 people died today when Egyptians rampaged in protest at the sentencing of 21 people to death over a soccer stadium disaster, adding to bloody street turmoil confronting Islamist President Mohamed Mursi.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Barack Obama plans to launch his second-term push for a U.S.

SEGOU/BAMAKO, Mali – French-backed government forces advanced into northern Mali towards the Islamist rebel stronghold of Gao on Friday, recapturing the town of Hombori and forcing al Qaeda-allied fighters to pull back under relentless French air strikes.

CAIRO/ISMAILIA, Egypt, (Reuters) – Seven people were shot dead in the Egyptian city of Suez during nationwide protests against President Mohamed Mursi yesterday, underlining the country’s deep divisions on the second anniversary of the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – A species of South African dung beetle has been shown to use the Milky Way to navigate, making it the only known animal that turns to the galactic spray of stars across the night sky for direction.

(Reuters) – A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that President Barack Obama violated the U.S.

(Jamaica Observer) More than 200 new houses are to be built with European Union (EU) funds for sugar workers living in dilapidated barracks in Golden Grove, St Thomas.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – Climate change has shrunk Andean glaciers between 30 and 50 percent since the 1970s and could melt many of them away altogether in coming years, according to a study published on Tuesday in the journal The Cryosphere.

(Trinidad Guardian) Less than a week after Khan’s Gold Designs, Frederick Street, Port-of-Spain, was robbed of more than TT$1 million worth of jewellery during a mid-afternoon robbery, two men appeared in court for the crime. Uriah

(Reuters) – A son of deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi allegedly received 120 million euros ($162 million) in bribes for giving major contracts in Libya to SNC-Lavalin Inc , Canada’s biggest engineering and construction company, a police document said on Friday.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – A jail riot in southwestern Venezuela killed dozens of people on Friday, local media reported, the latest incident in the ongoing crisis in the South American nation’s crowded prisons.

TORONTO,  (Reuters) – Toronto’s divisive mayor, Rob Ford, won an appeal today against a ruling that was set to remove him from office, defusing a showdown that has transfixed Canada’s biggest city and allowing him to see out his four-year term.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Visitors to London have marked its hotels as the worst in a list of 100 cities due to overpriced minibars, lousy breakfasts and slow service, according to a survey released today.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Barack Obama plans to launch his second-term push for a U.S.

(Reuters) – A federal appeals court ruled today that President Barack Obama violated the U.S.

SEOUL,  (Reuters) – North Korea threatened to attack rival South Korea if Seoul joined a new round of tightened U.N.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Crime doesn’t pay is a familiar adage.