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Tiny Guinea-Bissau has big role in drug smuggling, and seems likely to keep it

 

By Chris Collins

McClatchy Newspapers

BUBAQUE, Guinea-Bissau --

Chris Collins is a McClatchy special correspondent.

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  • In this Friday, May 17, 2013 photo, two Palestinian refugee children sit in the window sill of a house in Gezirat al-Fadel village, Sharqiya, about 150 kilometers (93 miles) east of Cairo, Egypt. As Palestinians around the world recently marked the 65th anniversary of their mass displacement during the war over Israel's 1948 creation, the refugees in Gezirat al-Fadel say they have it worse than others who fled to Jordan, Syria or Lebanon. Unlike the millions who live in refugee camps in those countries, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) does not have offices in Egypt and so does not offer Palestinian refugees in Egypt assistance.

    AP PHOTOS: Palestinians in Egypt exiled, forgotten

    In 1948, Suleiman Mamoudi fled by foot with his parents and other families from their village of Bir el-Sabae in Palestine. The 28-year-old and his family walked west for several hundred miles, crossing the Sinai Peninsula before settling in an area around 90 miles (145 kilometers) north of Cairo.

  • In this image taken Saturday, May 18, 2013 made available from AP video, passengers leave a Boeing 737 belonging to Russian carrier UTair in Vnukovo airport, outside , Russia, on Saturday, May 18, 2013. Emergency officials said the landing gear of a plane carrying more then 130 people caught on fire as it was landing. All passengers and crew members were safely evacuated.

    Plane catches fire landing in Moscow; no injuries

    Part of an airliner carrying more than 130 people caught fire as it was landing in Moscow, and passengers evacuated the plane by jumping off one of its wings and shooting down an evacuation slide.

  • Russia's Karjakin wins Norway chess tournament

    Russia's Sergey Karjakin has won the (EURO)100,000 ($130,000) Norway chess tournament after drawing against Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria.

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