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Indian police officials said they killed 24 Maoist rebels early on Monday in a gun battle in New Delhi, at what appeared to be a training camp in a remote area of eastern India . ... According to officials at the newly renovated zoo in Pyongyang, North Korea, the 19year-old female chimpanzee, whose name in Korean is “Dallae,” smokes about a pack of cigarettes a day; Dallae is short for azalea.