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Mexico and Guatemala free victims of human trafficking

Mexico and Guatemala say they have rescued at least 104 people from captivity and arrested 14 of their alleged human traffickers.

Police in Guatemala said they raided two houses near the Mexican border and found at least 60 people who wanted to travel to the United States illegally.

They arrested eight alleged smugglers.

In Mexico, the authorities said they found 44 Guatemalan migrants in a house near the Guatemalan border and arrested six alleged human traffickers.

Migrants from Central America often pay smugglers to enter the US illegally, but are frequently abused by their traffickers.

They can hold migrants in captivity to extort more money from the victims’ relatives.

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Peaches Geldof Writer and TV presenter dies aged 25

Peaches Geldof, second daughter of musician Bob Geldof and the late Paula Yates, has died aged 25, leaving a husband and two sons.

“We are beyond pain,” said her father, confirming her death. “She was the wildest, funniest, cleverest, wittiest and the most bonkers of all of us.”

Police, who were called to an address in Kent around lunchtime on Monday, say the death is currently being treated as “unexplained and sudden”.

Geldof was 11 when her own mother died.

TV presenter Yates died of a drug overdose in September 2000. In September 2012 Geldof said she had not been able to come to terms with her mother’s death for several years.

Her final tweet, posted on Sunday, linked to an Instagram picture of her, as a baby, in her mother’s arms. The caption simply read: “Me and my mum.”

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Briton is one of two UN workers shot dead in Somalia

A British man is one of two United Nations workers who have been shot dead in Somalia, the Foreign Office has said.

They were killed inside Galkayo Airport after getting off a plane, local security official Mohamed Mire said.

The attacker was dressed in a police uniform, an airport official added.

UK Foreign Secretary William Hague said: “I condemn these brutal murders in the strongest terms”.

Witness Hassan Ahmed said: “One of them died inside the airport and the other one was rushed to hospital where he later died of the injuries.”

The men were working for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the UN confirmed.

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Fort Hood gunman had ‘leave dispute’ prior to shooting

A soldier who killed three men at a US Army base on Wednesday had an argument over a request for leave shortly before the shooting, reports say.

Specialist Ivan Lopez, 34, was denied leave to attend to family matters, officials speaking on condition of anonymity told US media.

He also wounded 16 people before shooting himself at the Fort Hood base.

The soldier’s father said on Friday he “could not have been in his right frame of mind” during the attack.

Spc Lopez is alleged to have walked into one of the buildings of the Fort Hood base and opened fire with a .45-calibre semi-automatic pistol.

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Kerry calls for a Reality Check in the Mid-East talks

US Secretary of State John Kerry has said it is time for a “reality check” in the Israel-Palestinian peace process amid a deep crisis in the talks.

Speaking in Morocco, Mr Kerry said there were “limits” to the time Washington would expend on trying to get the sides to reach an agreement.

He spoke after steps taken by Israel and the Palestinians in the past two days which each side said violated previous promises.

Talks are meant to conclude next month.

Mr Kerry has shuttled backwards and forwards for negotiations with Israel and the Palestinians in recent weeks.

However, Washington has expressed exasperation at what it calls “unhelpful, unilateral actions” taken by both sides.

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