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Danone plans to withdraw from most of its business in Russia
Danone plans to withdraw from most of its business in Russia

French agribusiness Danone said Friday it planned to transfer control of its essential dairy and plant-based business in Russia, retaining only its infant nutrition branch. Danone will however retain the activities of its "specialised nutrition" arm, which includes infant milk.

Murder rate plummets amid 'gangster peace' in Medellin
Murder rate plummets amid 'gangster peace' in Medellin

Seven days without a single murder: The month of August marked a security record for Colombia's second city Medellin, the onetime fiefdom of infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar. Thirty years after Escobar was shot dead on a Medellin rooftop while trying to evade capture, the drug trade still dominates many poor neighborhoods of the city of nearly three million people.