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BANGUI, Central African Republic – The director of Central African Republic state radio says armed gunmen surrounded the station and attempted an attack but were repelled by security forces overnight. Eloi Bellonghot said Tuesday that a dozen attackers scaled fences and threatened to take gendarmes hostage, but a gendarme with …

JOHANNESBURG – A conservationist says the lion population has increased in a major wildlife park in Mozambique partly because heavy poaching of elephants has provided the carnivores with a bounty of carcasses to eat. Conservationist Colleen Begg said in an email to The Associated Press that lions in Niassa National …

PADANG BESAR, Thailand – Police say six people were killed and 11 others wounded in a series of attacks in Thailand’s insurgency-plagued south. Three women were killed by a motorcycle bomb that exploded late Friday night near a karaoke bar in the border town of Padang Besar, while arson was …