On a muggy summer morning, Donna Brodus Forrest stepped into an old, nearly forgotten cemetery hidden in a thicket of trees, in pursuit of a family mystery.

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For the past eight years, Ahmed Mohamed Aden has been trying to reunite with the sons he left behind when he fled Somalia.

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In late August, Erin Alexander, 57, sat in the parking lot of a Target store in Fairfield, California, and wept. Her sister-in-law had recently died, and Ms Alexander was having a hard day.

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For months, die-hard environmental activists have camped in the fields and occupied the trees in this tiny farming village in western Germany, hoping that like-minded people from across the country would arrive and help stop the expansion of a nearby open-pit coal mine that threatened to swallow the village and its farms.

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To maintain diplomatic ties with Guatemala, Taiwan pays the country's lobbyists in Washington. With its allies in the Pacific, Taiwan has promised to help preserve indigenous cultures. And to thank Lithuania, Taiwan's newest unofficial ally, the government and local shoppers have embraced its imports, from lasers to bacon-flavoured schnapps.

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'Terror' motive behind UK immigration centre attack: police

LONDON - Last week's firebombing of a UK migrant processing centre was motivated by "terrorist ideology", counter terrorism police said on Saturday.

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Forgotten graves reveal life stories

Inside the wait for refugee status

Random acts of kindness impress

Hunger for coal dooms tiny village

Taiwan opts for 'cute diplomacy'

'Terror' motive behind UK immigration centre attack: police