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  4-year-old girl beheaded in Taiwan knife attack

  CNN

  CNN — A 4-year-old girl was beheaded in Taiwan in what appears to have been a random knife attack, state media said. On Monday morning, a 33-year-old man attacked the girl with a cleaver in full view of her mother as they were on their way to a metro station in Taipei, the island’s capital, the …

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  Deadly Turkey ‘terror attack’ targets military in Ankara

  CNN

  CNN — An explosion hit military vehicles at an intersection in the Turkish capital of Ankara on Wednesday evening, officials said, in what the military called a terror attack. Twenty-eight people were killed and 61 others were injured, according to Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus. The explosion …

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  Syria: How one strip of land could change everything

  CNN

  Beirut CNN — The dusty roads of Azaz, just off the Turkish-Syrian border, used to be the sort of place you whizzed through on the way to rebel-held Aleppo. Now it is the scene of seismic changes to the war in Syria, which could decide the most complex and unresolved question of the conflict: who …

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  Syria: At least 22 killed in strikes against 2 hospitals, sources say

  CNN

  CNN — Rescuers wearing hard hats searched through rubble for survivors in northern Syria Monday after airstrikes hit two hospitals and a school building. The attacks killed at least 22 people, according to reports. Eight others are missing and presumed dead. Amnesty International said the hospital …

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  Over half the world’s population suffers from ‘severe’ water scarcity, scientists say

  The Washington Post - Chris Mooney

  Alarming new research has found that 4 billion people around the globe — including close to 2 billion in India and China — live in conditions of extreme water scarcity at least one month during the year. Half a billion, meanwhile, experience it throughout the entire year. The new study, by Mesfin …

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  If this Iraqi dam collapses, half a million people could die

  The Washington Post - Loveday Morris

  If breached, it could unleash a 180-foot-high wave down the Tigris River Basin and drown more than half a million people, with floodwaters reaching as far as the Iraqi capital, about 280 miles to the south. The collapse of the Mosul Dam would be catastrophic for Iraq. The dam has been called the most …