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| To save South America's forests harmonize tough environment rules - study | |  By Chris Arsenault TORONTO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - To feed a growing population without destroying the world's forests, governments and companies need to harmonise rules on deforestation to stop farms or cattle ranches from moving operations into areas with weak environmental laws, researchers said on Monday. By 2030, 100 million new hectares of farm land, an area larger than Nigeria, will be needed to grow enough food for the world's growing population, said a study by Stanford University in the United States.
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| Cameroon delays quizzing of bomber claiming to be Chibok schoolgirl as doubts mount | |  By Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani ABUJA, Nigeria (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Cameroon officials delayed on Monday the questioning of a female suicide bomber claiming to be one of the schoolgirls abducted from Chibok in northeast Nigeria two years ago by Islamic militants due to injuries as doubts mounted over her identity. The girl claiming to be one of the 219 missing schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram and another woman were arrested on Friday carrying explosives in Limani in northern Cameroon that has been the target of frequent suicide bombings recently. The arrest raised hopes that the girl might be able to assist the Nigerian government in investigations regarding the fate and whereabouts of the missing Chibok girls.
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| Secret Service closed White House fence lines during Capitol shooting | | | The Secret Service temporarily closed the north and south fence lines around the White House complex on Monday as a "routine precautionary measure" a spokesman said, as police reported gunshots were fired at the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center. A report that a person tried to gain entry to the White House was incorrect, the U.S. Secret Service spokesman said. |
| Shots fired in U.S. Capitol complex, gunman caught | |  A police officer may have been injured by shrapnel on Monday in the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center when a man fired a gun, media reports and congressional sources said. MSNBC-TV reported that an officer who fired at an armed suspect may have been injured by shrapnel. A U.S. government official told Reuters that initial reports were that a suspect walked into the Visitors Center, pointed a gun at one of the police officers on duty and a shootout erupted.
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| Belgium frees charged suspect in blow to bombing investigation | |  By Barbara Lewis BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian prosecutors on Monday released a man they had charged in connection with last week's deadly Brussels bombings, saying they did not have enough information to justify holding him. The man, named only as Faycal C., had been accused of taking part in the activities of a terrorist group and actual and attempted terrorist murder after being detained on Thursday. "The evidence which led to the arrest of the man named as Faycal C has not been backed up by the ongoing investigation.
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| GMO labels spread as U.S. congressional effort to halt them fades | | | By Lisa Baertlein LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Even as General Mills Inc and other companies vow to keep fighting mandatory labelling of genetically modified food ingredients, they have begun rolling out these disclosures across the United States to comply a new Vermont law. The moves come as U.S. lawmakers are unlikely to derail Vermont's law requiring labels on foods made with genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, before it takes effect on July 1. "We can't label our products for only one state without significantly driving up costs for our consumers, and we simply will not do that," General Mills recently said on its blog. |
| Special report - College Board gave SAT exams that it knew had leaked | |  Xingyuan Ding is a sophomore at the University of California, Los Angeles, one of America's most exclusive public universities. In applying to schools, the 20-year-old from China took the SAT college entrance exam four times.
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| The SAT test - Frequently Asked Questions | | | A: The College Board, the organization that owns the SAT, told Reuters that it will reuse portions of tests overseas at some point after those tests have been given in North America. Q: Has the College Board recycled tests in America, too? A: Sometimes the College Board recycles one or more sections of tests. |
| Special report - How Asian test-prep companies exposed the new SAT | |  On the morning of Saturday, March 5, students gathered at test centres around the United States to take the SAT, the all-important college entrance exam. The day was momentous - not simply for the test-takers but also for the College Board, the not-for-profit that owns the exam. East Asian cram schools have repeatedly exploited that practice to breach the SAT, and the College Board has come to see the test-prep industry as a daunting adversary.
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| Ex-Honduran leader pleads guilty in U.S. FIFA bribery case | |  By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former Honduran President Rafael Callejas pleaded guilty on Monday to U.S. charges that he participated in bribery schemes that are under investigation at soccer's world governing body FIFA. Callejas, who is also the former president of the Honduran soccer federation, admitted in federal court in Brooklyn, New York that he sought bribes in connection with awarding media and marketing rights for World Cup qualifier matches. "I knew that it was wrong for me to ask for and accept such undisclosed payments," Callejas said in court.
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| Brazil party set to abandon Rousseff, eyes presidency | |  By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's largest party will decide on Tuesday to break away from President Dilma Rousseff's floundering coalition, party leaders said, sharply raising the odds she will be impeached amid a corruption scandal. The fractious Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) will decide at its national leadership meeting on the pace of disengagement from the Rousseff administration, in which it holds seven ministerial posts and the vice presidency. A formal rupture appears inevitable and will increase the isolation of the unpopular Rousseff, freeing PMDB members to vote for her impeachment.
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| Afghan gunmen free kidnapped Tajiks | | | SHURO-OBOD, Tajikistan (Reuters) - Gunmen from Afghanistan have released two Tajik road workers kidnapped in a cross-border raid last week, Tajikistan's border guard service said on Monday. The attack, blamed by the regional government on drug smugglers, took place last Friday near the town of Shuro-obod in southeastern Tajikistan and prompted a temporary closure of the main road connecting Tajikistan and China. The impoverished former Soviet republic routinely reports incidents related to drug smugglers crossing its border with Afghanistan. |
| Clinton to push Trump, Republicans on U.S. Supreme Court fight | |  Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton will assail the prospect of a Donald Trump-appointed U.S. Supreme Court justice on Monday, her campaign said, as she seeks to regain momentum from party rival Bernie Sanders, the winner of three weekend nominating contests. Clinton will criticize U.S. Republican senators for refusing to consider President Barack Obama's nominee, Merrick Garland, and voice concern about any nominee from Trump, front-runner in the Republican race for the Nov. 8 presidential election, her campaign said. A Trump nominee to fill the position vacated with the Feb. 13 death of Justice Antonin Scalia would seek to curb Americans' rights and empower corporations, Clinton will say in the speech urging Republicans to do their jobs and consider Garland.
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| Pakistan plans new paramilitary crackdown after Easter bombing kills 70 | |  By Mehreen Zahra-Malik and Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan has decided to launch a paramilitary crackdown on Islamist militants in Punjab, the country's richest and most populous province, after an Easter Day bombing killed 70 people in the provincial capital Lahore, officials said on Monday. Sunday's suicide bombing at a public park was claimed by the Pakistani Taliban's Jamaat-ur-Ahrar faction, which once declared loyalty to Islamic State. The brutality of the attack, Jamaat-ur-Ahrar's fifth bombing since December, reflects the movement's attempts to raise its profile among Pakistan's increasingly fractured Islamist militants.
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