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The U.S. non-profit group that produces the children's television show Sesame Street says a major North Korean toy maker is producing unlicensed replicas of popular characters from the internationally syndicated educational program.

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The United Nations food relief agency Tuesday warned that humanitarian needs in Syria – especially for food – are growing, with serious bread and fuel shortages across the war-torn country.

British military officials say one of their soldiers has been killed in Afghanistan by a suspected member of the Afghan National Army.

Negotiations are set to open this week in Gabon's capital to try to find a peaceful solution to the month-long rebellion in the Central African Republic. A rebel delegation arrived in Libreville late Monday but the plane scheduled to take government officials, opposition leaders, and civil society members to the Gabonese capital was delayed.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was disappointed that a speech made by Syria’s President Bashar al Assad on Sunday “does not contribute to a solution that could end the terrible suffering of the Syrian people,” the UN chief’s spokesperson said Monday.

Residential buildings rise up across the Dnieper River from the Monastery of the Caves, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv.or Security and Co-operation in Europe

You could call it the slaughter of the innocents, 2012. Twenty young children mowed down, eviscerated in a rain of bullets. But this time there was no Herod, no autocratic ruler, to blame for the massacre. No, this time the cause of the horror which has devastated hundreds of lives, and shocked the nation, has to be looked at deep within our culture, indeed, within ourselves.

The DARPA Spectrum Challenge is a competition for teams to create software-defined radio protocols that best use communication channels in the presence of other users and interfering signals.