Mali conflict: ‘Many die’ in Ifoghas mountain battle
23 February BBC
Thirteen Chadian and 65 Islamist rebel fighters
have been killed in fighting in northern Mali, Chad's military says.
It says five of its soldiers were wounded in the clashes in the
mountainous Ifoghas region.
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Coffee linked to birth of smaller babies
23 February Daily Mail
Mothers-to-be who have a couple of mugs of
coffee a day risk having an underweight baby, research suggests.
Coffee may also make pregnancy last longer but only by a matter of
hours. The observations come from researchers who studied detailed
records of almost 60,000 pregnancies from a ten-year period in
Norway.
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Obama, Japan PM firm on N.Korea, measured on China
23 February AFP
US President Barack Obama pledged with Japan's
new leader to take a firm line on a defiant North Korea but the two
sides also tried to calm rising tensions between Tokyo and China.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe carefully avoided disagreements with Obama
after previous Japanese governments' rifts and declared:
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