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The British PM David Cameron's seeks to change UK's relationship with the EU at at a summit later today; Elephants dying in DR Congo; What makes a throat singer?
The US State Department says it is aware that radioactive material is missing from a storage facility near the southern Iraqi city of Basra, but there is no indication that any Islamist group has the material.
The park rangers guarding the elephants of Garamba park In the Democratic Republic of Congo have a hard job to stop the poachers.
There are many other threats, including Sudan's janjaweed militia, Uganda's Lords Resistance Army, and mysterious poachers who use helicopters.
Throat singing is still practiced in some parts of Russia like Tuva, one of the Russian republics in southern Siberia, bordering Mongolia.
There it's practised mostly by men, but one woman has bucked the trend, becoming a trail blazer and taking throat singing to new heights. She's called Sainkho Namtchylak and is currently on a European tour.
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