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YANGON, Myanmar – Myanmar troops fighting ethnic rebels near the Chinese border have recovered the bodies of 13 insurgents and captured eight others following heavy government losses this week, state media reported Sunday. The clashes are some of the fiercest in the country in two years and threaten to derail …

ISTANBUL – About 15,000 people marched in a southern Turkish city Wednesday in remembrance of a student whose murder last week after an attempted rape has galvanized public outrage about violence against women. Twenty-year-old Ozgecan Aslan’s body was found Friday burned in a riverbed. She was last seen two days …

MEXICO CITY – Coca-Cola’s largest bottler in Mexico has temporarily suspended operations in the capital of the embattled state of Guerrero following attacks on its workers and its trucks. Alma Beltran, a spokeswoman for Coca-Cola Femsa SA, says the decision to stop supplying Chilpancingo was to “guarantee the safety of …