LAGOS (Reuters) - Much of Africa's population is being choked by deadly fuels that are banned in Europe and the United States, a campaign group said on Friday, blaming the international trading firms that sell high-sulfur fuels to the continent.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Armed conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa are not only devastating the economies gripped by fighting, but are sapping growth in neighboring countries and those hosting millions of refugees, the International Monetary Fund said on Friday.

STOCKHOLM, Sept 16 (Reuters) - The European Union has the capacity to absorb a million refugees a year, and could force through new asylum rules by majority voting if consensus cannot be reached, Sweden's migration minister said in an interview on Friday.

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The number of South Sudanese who have fled their conflict-ridden homeland for a neighboring country passed one million this week following renewed violence, the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Friday.

TORONTO (Reuters) - (This version of the story corrects name to Ella Purnell from Kelly Macdonald in the last paragraph)

ZURICH, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Soccer's scandal-plagued global governing body FIFA on Friday said it has appointed PwC as its new auditors.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) records leaked by hackers raised a lot of questions, TASS news agency reported.

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ABIDJAN, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Rights groups have accused Ivory Coast authorities of failing to provide a minimum level of support when they evicted tens of thousands of illegal cocoa farmers from a national park, leaving them vulnerable and putting pressure on local communities.