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A new report released by the National Observatory on Poverty and Social Exclusion (ONPES) and the World Bank suggests the need for more inclusive growth and policies to increase access to basic services, livelihood opportunities and social protection for the poor in Haiti as the best way forward for accelerating poverty reduction in the country.

AND logic gate design and function – The protein AND logic gate was built from a protein that bound maltose (the detector) and an enzyme that catalyzed a reaction (the reporter), which causes a color change in the solution or causes the bacteria to behave in a certain fashion.

Twin suicide bombings Thursday in a crowded marketplace in the north-central Nigerian city of Jos left at least 31 people dead.

Ukraine's president says a "fragile" cease-fire is actually in place for the first time in his country's seven-month conflict between government troops and Russian-back separatists.

A displaced woman from northern Mali in the Sahel, waits at a temporary shelter near Mopti's main bus station.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is pleading with Russia to remove its troops from war-torn eastern Ukraine.

Hong Kong authorities have begun clearing the territory's main protest site, bringing a likely end to more than two months of pro-democracy demonstrations there.

Democratic and Republican leaders in the U.S. Congress have reached a deal on a $1.1 trillion spending bill that would fund the federal government through next year.