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A truck crashed into a crowd of people in western Guatemala on Wednesday evening, killing at least 32 people, authorities said. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2FH6yzS

(This March 27 story corrects aircraft version in paragraph 2 to F-16V from F-16B) from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2JIPH3r

Chinese traditional medicine is rapidly expanding worldwide as a key pillar of the country's Belt and Road initiative, but conservation groups say demand for treatments using animal products is driving a surge in illegal trafficking of wildlife. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2OxsbVL

Radioactive contamination from Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant hit by a tsunami in 2011 has drifted as far north as waters off a remote Alaska island in the Bering Strait, scientists said on Wednesday. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2FH13RI

U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry has approved six secret authorizations by companies to sell nuclear power technology and assistance to Saudi Arabia, according to a copy of a document seen by Reuters on Wednesday. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2FEqRxw

Iran welcomed on Thursday a Luxembourg court's decision to refuse to reinforce a U.S. ruling that would have helped families of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks claim Iranian assets held by a Luxembourg-based clearing house. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2OtQfsM

China will launch a month-long, nationwide inspection campaign into hazardous chemicals, mines, transportation and fire safety, the country's safety watchdog said, following a deadly pesticide plant blast that killed 78 people last week. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2JJmNAd

A dissident group accused of breaking into North Korea's embassy in Madrid said on Thursday it was temporarily suspending operations, after a Spanish judge issued international arrest warrants for two suspected intruders now believed to be in the United States. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2FJYUDF

It was a quiet day in January, and many oil traders were still on holiday, when two sources in the industry called to alert me to something unusual - a supertanker that had gone off radar for two weeks appeared off the coast of the United Arab Emirates and was pumping out fuel oil to two smaller vessels. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2WqQEyT

Austria's far-right Identitarian Movement received cash from the man charged with killing 50 people in mass shootings at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, this month, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said on Wednesday. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2FEHKIq

China's Public Security Ministry said it would conduct further investigations into its own senior ranks late on Wednesday after a decision to prosecute former Interpol chief Meng Hongwei, and warned that disloyalty to the Communist Party would not be tolerated. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2UhScOg

Starting in 1982, during one of the darkest moments of Guatemala’s civil war, at least 11 Mayan Q’eqchi indigenous women were kidnapped, enslaved and raped over a period of six years at an army camp in the jungle. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2TDH75N

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Thursday that she welcomed Facebook Inc's decision to ban praise, support and representation of white nationalism and white separatism on its social media platforms. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2U1jJnR