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Houthis accept 5-day truce in Yemen proposed by Saudi Arabia

CAIRO/ADEN - Yemen's dominant Houthi group accepts a five-day humanitarian ceasefire proposed by its adversary Saudi Arabia but says it will respond to any violations. (YEMEN-SECURITY/ (WRAPUP 3, PICTURES, TV), moved, by Mohammed Ghobari and Mohammed Mukhashaf, 800 words)

- YEMEN-SECURITY/MOROCCO (UPDATE 1), moved, Aziz El Yaakoubi, 370 words

China cuts interest rates for 3rd time in six months as economy sputters

BEIJING - China cuts interest rates for the third time in six months in a bid to lower companies' borrowing costs and stoke a sputtering economy that is headed for its worst year in a quarter of a century. (CHINA-ECONOMY/RATES (UPDATE 4), moved, by Judy Hua and Kevin Yao, 730 words)

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Afghan clerics uneasy as civil rights movement gains momentum

KABUL - Powerful religious leaders in Afghanistan are growing uneasy about the challenge to their authority posed by rare civil rights protests in Kabul and widespread anger over the lynching of a young woman wrongly accused of burning a Koran. (AFGHANISTAN-WOMEN/CLERICS (INSIGHT, PICTURES), moved, by Mirwais Harooni and Jessica Donati, 840 words)

ASIA

Thousands Bangladeshis, Rohingya, detained in Malaysia

KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia detains 1,018 Bangladeshi and Rohingya refugees after they arrived in three boats, a day after Indonesian authorities rescued 600 stranded off the coast of Aceh. (MALAYSIA-ROHINGYA/ (UPDATE 2), moved, 310 words)

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South Korea voices concern over North's submarine missile test

SEOUL - South Korea's defence ministry voices its concern after the North said it successfully test-fired a ballistic missile from a submarine, a step that would beef up the nuclear-capable state's military capabilities. (NORTHKOREA-SUBMARINE/ (UPDATE 1), by Ju-min Park, 300 words)

UNITED STATES

Full picture of Clinton charities' foreign govt funding remains elusive

NEW YORK - The Clinton Foundation acknowledges that the government funding totals omitted from their tax returns cannot be found on their website either, despite the foundation's acting chief executive officer earlier suggesting they were available there.(USA-ELECTION/CLINTON-FOUNDATION, moved, by Jonathan Allen, 640 words)

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AMERICAS

Raul Castro meets Pope, says he might return to the Church

VATICAN CITY - Cuban President Raul Castro thanks Pope Francis for brokering the thaw between Havana and Washington and says he has so impressed him that he might return to the Catholic Church, despite being a communist. (POPE-CUBA/CASTRO (UPDATE 3, PICTURES, TV), moved, by Philip Pullella, 460 words)

EUROPE

Merkel's party suffers another state loss as eurosceptics roll on

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BERLIN - The Eurosceptic Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is set to win seats in a fifth straight regional parliament after an election in the city-state of Bremen where Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives were badly beaten. (GERMANY-ELECTION/BREMEN (UPDATE 2), moved, by Michael Nienaber and Erik Kirschbaum, 390 words)

British PM Cameron rules out another Scottish independence vote

LONDON - British Prime Minister David Cameron rules out giving Scotland another independence referendum despite spectacular gains by Scottish nationalists in a UK-wide election, saying Scots had "emphatically" rejected a breakaway only last year. (BRITAIN-ELECTION/SCOTLAND, moved, 200 words)

AFRICA

After surviving Boko Haram, returnees face hunger in Nigerian towns

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MICHIKA - Since Nigeria's army began clearing large areas of its northeast from Boko Haram, some of the 1.5 million internally displaced people have started returning home but thousands could now face severe food shortages as reconstruction lags. (NIGERIA-VIOLENCE/ (PICTURES, TV), moved, by Julia Payne, 720 words)

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