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BAMAKO, Mali – Mali’s main coalition of Tuareg separatist rebels has signed a peace agreement with the government more than a month after other armed groups did so. The deal took place Saturday evening in Mali’s capital Bamako after a delay of several hours to give participants time to arrive. …

BALTIMORE – Someone painted the words “Black Lives Matter” on a statue honoring Confederate soldiers in Baltimore. The Baltimore Sun (http://bsun.md/1JeArnA ) reports the words in yellow paint covered an etched message Monday on the statue that was erected by the Maryland Daughters of the Confederacy in February 1903. Those …

BEIJING – More than 300 Chinese workers at an apparel factory that supplies international brands such as Uniqlo have been protesting for about two weeks what they say is a unilateral decision by the management to close down. The strike is one of more than 1,000 collective actions since January …