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The British government is investigating reports that government computers were used to make disparaging comments about the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, when 96 people were killed and 766 were injured in a human crush in the stands at a FA Cup semi-final match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest football clubs.

Tensions in Ukraine are escalating at a rapid pace.  Forces loyal to Kiev killed at least five pro-Russian militants during operations to take down their barricades around an eastern city.  In response, Russia said its troops, which are menacingly position just over the border, would begin new military drills.

An Afghan police officer opened fire at foreign doctors inside a hospital in the capital Kabul, killing three members of the medical staff and injuring two more people.  The facility specialized in the treatment of disabled children and women’s maternal health issues.

A convicted pedophile from the United States managed to slide under the world’s radar, traveling from country to country working as a schoolteacher and molesting at least 90 students along the way. 

The reconciliation of the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank with Hamas in Gaza is not sitting well with the Israeli government.  Israel has suspended all peace talks with the PA and some in the government are lashing out at their greatest protect, the United States, for not condemning the deal forcefully enough.

US President Barack Obama reaffirmed America’s commitment to support Japan in its dispute with China over the Senkaku Islands.  But Obama cautioned both countries to settle the issue peacefully with dialogue, and not escalation.

The death toll from the South Korean Ferry Disaster is 163, with more than 130 passengers still unaccounted for.  Only 174 passengers and crew were rescued, and that was on the first day, last week.  One of the bodies recovered so far might be that of the boy who made the first distress call from the capsizing ship from his mobile phone.

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Hamas and Fatah – which control Gaza and the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank respectively – are agreeing on a deal to end the schism between rival Palestinian factions.  Israel and the United States are not happy about news of the reconciliation.

Pro-Russian militants in Eastern Ukraine are denying claims the Ukrainian troops swept gunmen out of the government and police buildings in at least one town where separatists have clamored and demanded independence from Kiev.

Embattled no more, Gustavo Petro is back in office as Mayor of Bogota.  Colombia’s president reinstated Petro after a tribunal ruled that he never should have been kicked out of office in the first place, an act that Petro’s allies maintain was nothing but politics.

The Prime Minister of Turkey has for the first time offered condolences for the mass killings of Armenians during World War I, when the country was under Ottoman rule.  Armenians and many others consider the deaths of as many as 1.5 Million people to be an act of genocide.

South Korean authorities raided the home of the head of the family that owns the Sewol ferry that capsized and sank.  Divers recovered 11 more bodies from the capsized and sunken ferry off the southern tip of the peninsula, bringing the death toll to 150, with about 150 still missing – most of them high school students on a class trip.

At least one person is dead in rioting that has broken out from one of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas and onto one of its most famous tourist attractions – legendary Copacabana Beach.  The uprising follows the death of a young man allegedly beaten by police.

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Four security officers have been killed in militant attacks in Yemen.  It follows a series of massive aerial attacks reportedly involving US drone that killed as many as 65 militants, including three “leaders” of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).

As US Vice President Joe Biden was visiting allies in Kiev, the trouble in Eastern Ukraine was crossing an ominous threshold.  The bodies of two men – one of them a local pro-government politician – were found “tortured to death” and dumped in a river near Sloviansk.

The government of Nepal agreed to meet some of the compensation demands from Mount Everest’s famed Sherpa guides, days after the single deadliest avalanche on the world’s highest mountain killed at least 13 guides.

Unfinished business and lingering grudges from early in the previous century are causing relations between Japan and China to sour even further.  Authorities in Shanghai have seized a Japanese ship over claims dating back to the 1930s, and 150 Japanese lawmakers paid a visit to a shrine that Beijing abhors

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