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U.S. Army paratroopers began military training for small units of the Ukrainian national guard despite Russian warnings that the action could destabilize the country's tenuous cease-fire. http://www.infobitt.com/b/11592 Ethiopian runner Lelisa Desisa now owns two Boston Marathon titles, after winning the race in windy and rainy conditions. http://www.infobitt.com/b/11584 Rising tensions over the conflict in Yemen appear to be pitting the United States against Iran in a sensitive showdown in the Gulf of Aden. http://www.infobitt.com/b/11582 Somalia's al-Shabab Islamists have killed seven people, including four UN workers, by setting off a huge bomb which ripped through a staff bus in the north-eastern town of Garowe. http://www.infobitt.com/b/11591 The Nigerian Pension Commission says 5 billion Naira (~US$25M) are to be invested in infrastructural development. http://www.infobitt.com/b/11579 Microbeads are showing up by the millions in the Great Lakes. Microbeads are millimeter-sized abrasives that are us