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Protesters clash with police ahead of G7 summit in Bavaria

By Paul Carrel and Michelle Martin GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (Reuters) – Protesters clashed with police in the German resort town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen on Saturday as thousands demonstrated against a meeting of Group of Seven (G7) leaders that starts on Sunday at a nearby luxury hotel. Police vastly outnumbered the marchers in the picturesque former winter Olympic games venue at the foot of Germany’s highest mountain, the Zugspitze. Playing drums, tambourines and

8 Things No One Tells You About Doing Yoga

The essential lessons every yogi should learn.By Alison Feller, SELF I have always been a self-proclaimed adrenaline junkie. I was a competitive dancer through college, and once I got hooked on running and Spinning I was all cardio, all the time. But yoga? Never.Then one night, just a few years ago, I was running late and missed my Spin class….

Fleeing Burundi, children as young as 6 arrive alone in camps – charity

By Katie Nguyen LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Children as young as six are fleeing political unrest in Burundi, travelling for days on foot without their parents and arriving in “unprecedented numbers” in refugee camps, Save the Children said on Saturday. Many parents are staying behind to protect their homes from looting and possible destruction in Burundi’s worst crisis since its ethnically charged civil war in 2005, while sending their

South Korea MERS virus cases reach 50 people

South Korea on Saturday confirmed nine more cases of the MERS virus, which has killed four people, but said it did not represent a spread of the outbreak as the infected were already in quarantine. “Our response to the outbreak was made in accordance with the existing manual, but there were shortcomings in the initial response,” she was quoted as saying by Yonhap news agency.