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AP Exclusive: Child soldiers recount horrors of Sudan’s war and presence of Colombian mercenariesTakeaways from AP story on child soldiers trained by Colombian mercenaries in SudanPHOTO ESSAY: Palestinian shepherds endure life alongside Israeli settler outpostsUS and Iran trade missile barrages as hopes dim for a quick resolution to the five-month conflictRussian strikes across Ukraine kill 9 and NATO scrambles jets after a missile falls in PolandRecord-low Danube River affects tourism and industry as drought and heat grip Central EuropeAs France tames wildfire and lets 84,000 evacuees go home, blazes flare across EuropeThe Mediterranean's warming waters are drawing hundreds of invasive speciesHope dwindles for rescue in southwestern Japan quake as death toll climbs to 25Congo says the dea