Startling new images from the depths of the Pacific Ocean reveal one of the planet’s most violent processes – the destruction of massive underwater mountains.

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Subsea mountains’ ‘march to ruin’

At least 32 people were killed in Syria’s worst protests yet Friday, as demonstrations spread throughout the country in calls for President Bashar al-Assad to resign. The most violent clashes took place in the city of Daraa, where at least 17 people…

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Syria Protests Kill 32

Brazilian soldiers deployed to some of Rio de Janeiro’s most violent neighbourhoods during an operation aimed at driving out drug-traffickers are to take on peacekeeping duties there.

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Brazil army to stay in Rio slums

Eighteen people were killed in separate shootings throughout Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez on Saturday, marking it as one of the bloodiest days this year in the nation’s most violent city, officials said Sunday.

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18 people killed in Ciudad Juarez

Officials have embarked on an ambitious plan to wrest control of Rio de Janeiro’s most violent slums from ruthless drug gangs.

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In Rough Slum, Brazil’s Police Try Soft Touch