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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States, South Korea, Japan and European nations have submitted to the U.N. Security Council’s North Korea sanctions committee lists of individuals and firms they want blacklisted after Pyongyang’s recent rocket launch, envoys said on Monday.

PARIS/BOGOTA (Reuters) – France on Monday said it held FARC rebels responsible for the life of a French journalist in Colombia, calling on the drug-funded group to release him immediately in line with a pledge it made to stop taking hostages for ransom.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez made his first live public appearance in two weeks on Monday to announce a new workers’ law prior to his return to Cuba for more cancer radiation therapy.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. campaign of drone strikes to kill militants in other countries is legal under international law, President Barack Obama’s counterterrorism adviser insisted on Monday in a rare public admission and justification of the controversial tactic.

BAMAKO (Reuters) – Soldiers from Mali’s presidential guard unit, loyal to the country’s ousted president, battled junta forces on Monday in an bid to wrest back control of the capital Bamako a month after a coup, witnesses and a junta official said.

Members of Mali’s presidential guard exchange fire in the capital Bamako with soldiers who took part in a coup last month, reports say.

A White House official details the US use of drones to kill members of al-Qaeda, and reveals that Osama Bin Laden’s papers are to go online.

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NEWS.com.au Scores dead as ferry sinks in India's Assam – World NewsSan Francisco Luxury NewsAn overcrowded river ferry has split in two and sunk during a severe storm in northeast India, leaving at least 35 people dead and many more missing. Women and children were among the passengers on the ferry, which sank in the fast-flowing Brahmaputra …200 dead, missing as India ferry sinksAFPTragedy hits crowded ferry in northeast IndiaHerald…