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SKHIRAT, Morocco – The U.N. envoy to Libya’s peace talks sounded a positive note Thursday as negotiations between the rival governments took another break with a deal remaining elusive. Bernardino Leon said after the latest round of talks — which he had called “decisive” — that the two sides would …

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Members of indigenous tribes in Suriname presented lawmakers with an ambitious proposal Thursday urging them to conserve roughly half of the sparsely populated country with a sprawling rainforest hinterland. On the north shoulder of South America, Suriname has some of the world’s largest near-pristine tracts of tropical …

CAIRO – Two bombs exploded on Sunday in Egypt’s Mediterranean city of Alexandria, one outside a popular supermarket chain and another near a police station, killing one person and wounding at least 9, security officials said. The blasts are the latest in a bombing campaign blamed on Islamic militants who …