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  1. Mexican farmers take on avocado growers in fight for water during drought

    A hand picking up an avocado from a crate of them.

    In recent days, subsistence farmers and activists from the Michoacán town of Villa Madero organized teams to go into the mountains and rip out illegal water pumps and breach unlicensed irrigation holding ponds.

  2. Will a wildly popular app become a casualty of the new cold war between China and the U.S.?

    Woman in front of Capitol Dome holds sign saying: "I

    One of the world’s most popular social platforms — wildly popular with young people — risks becoming a high-profile casualty of the cold-war sequel developing between China and the United States. Now a new bill offers the app's Chinese-based parent company two choices.

  3. Horses — without riders — bolt through London streets

    HORSES LOOSE IN LONDON, ENGLAND

    At least four people were injured in London, U.K., on Wednesday when military horses bolted during routine exercises, dashing through the city before being captured and returned to the barracks where they are kept.

  4. Pasteurized milk includes remnants of H5N1 bird flu, U.S. officials say

    A dairy cow calls out in Chino, California April 25, 2012.

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says that it has found bird flu virus particles in some samples of pasteurized milk.

  5. Ukraine drone attacks spark fires at western Russia oil depot

    Large ball of fire is shown at a production facility on the other side of fence in a nighttime photo still taken from video footage.

    Drones sent by Ukraine struck two Rosneft-owned oil depots in Russia's Smolensk region in an overnight attack on Wednesday, as the two-year war has featured a wave of attack on energy facilities this spring.