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MARONDERA, Zimbabwe, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) — Cow horns are often regarded as waste material at slaughterhouses, a Zimbabwean craftsman, however, has struck gold in them. Joseph Chifamba, a businessman who makes jewelry and other products from cow horns and bones,…

GAZA, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) — The al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, announced on Saturday that they had killed and injured members of a 15-person Israeli patrol by detonating a powerful explosive device in northern Gaza City. In a…

TOKYO, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) — Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on Thursday officially began its leadership race as the two-week campaign started, with a record nine candidates competing to become the new party chief and the country’s next prime…

JUBA, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) — The ongoing flooding has affected more than 710,000 people across 30 of 78 counties in South Sudan and the Abyei Administrative Area, the UN relief agency said on Thursday. Floods caused by heavy rains that…

VILNIUS/RIGA, Sept. 2 (Xinhua) — Several schools in Lithuania and Latvia received bomb threats via email on Monday, the first day of the new school year, according to police reports. As of 9 a.m. local time, the police in Lithuania…