A military official has confirmed that eight soldiers have been detained and taken to a military prison for their possible involvement in events surrounding the 2014 disappearance of 43 students from …
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By MARIA VERZA
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6/22/23
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Fear simmered among the small knot of relatives gathered for the wake of a mother and daughter who were among 46 women inmates slaughtered in this week's prison riot in Honduras. Relatives wept …
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By MARLON GONZÁLEZ
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6/22/23
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A lawyer for Senegal's embattled opposition leader Ousmane Sonko has filed a lawsuit in a French court. Sonko's attorney also called Thursday for the International Criminal Court to open an …
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By ZANE IRWIN
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6/22/23
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The United Nations has put Russian forces on its annual blacklist of countries that violate children’s rights in conflict for killing boys and girls and attacking schools and hospitals in Ukraine. …
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By EDITH M. LEDERER
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6/22/23
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Canadian police are releasing the names of 16 people who died in a crash between a minibus and a semitrailer a week ago at a highway intersection in a rural part of the Canadian province of Manitoba. …
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6/22/23
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A politician considered to be the mother of the modern Scottish independence movement has died at the age of 93. Winnie Ewing’s relatives announced Thursday that she died on Wednesday “surrounded …
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By JILL LAWLESS
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6/22/23
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Attorneys for the widow of slain Haitian President Jovenel Moïse have filed a lawsuit in Florida against those accused in the assassination. The lawsuit was filed Thursday and first shared with The …
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By DÁNICA COTO and JOSHUA GOODMAN
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6/22/23
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Brazil’s top electoral court has started hearing a case that could torpedo the political future of former President Jair Bolsonaro by rendering him ineligible for public office for eight years. …
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By CARLA BRIDI and MAURICIO SAVARESE
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6/22/23
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The German government has announced draft plans to boost domestic research into development of nuclear fusion but left open how those efforts will be funded. Some hope the technology will provide …
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By FRANK JORDANS
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6/22/23
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A hurricane watch has been issued for St. Lucia as Tropical Storm Bret barrels toward the eastern Caribbean at near-hurricane strength. The storm was located about 200 miles (320 kilometers) east of …
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By DÁNICA COTO
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6/22/23
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Russia’s Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a lawsuit by imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny contesting prison regulations that allow prison officials to deprive him of stationery and pens. …
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6/22/23
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The president of the United Arab Emirates has met with Iran’s visiting foreign minister in the latest sign of improving relations between Arab Gulf countries and the Islamic Republic. The UAE, …
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6/22/23
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For scores of children who grew up in Jamaica and elsewhere in the Caribbean in the 1950s and 60s, barrels of gifts that arrived at Christmastime were the only connection they had with their parents, …
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By SYLVIA HUI
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6/22/23
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Exactly 40 years after the teenage daughter of a Vatican employee disappeared, the Vatican announced new leads “worthy of further investigation” have surfaced. The Vatican’s criminal …
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By NICOLE WINFIELD
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6/22/23
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Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter detained on espionage charges in Russia, has appeared in court to appeal his extended detention. U.S. citizen Gershkovich was arrested in late March …
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6/22/23
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European Union officials say there is a growing risk of mosquito-borne viral diseases such as dengue and chikungunya in Europe due to climate change. The European Center for Disease Prevention and …
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By JAN M. OLSEN
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6/22/23
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At least 31 people have been killed and seven injured when cooking gas exploded at a restaurant in Yinchuan in northwestern China. It is the latest in China’s long history of deadly industrial …
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6/22/23
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French rescue workers are searching for a person feared missing after a powerful blast brought down a building in Paris’ Left Bank. The explosion injured more than 30 people, four of them …
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6/22/23
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The European Union has summoned the leaders of Serbia and Kosovo for emergency talks to try to bring an end to a series of violent clashes near their border. The renewed tensions are fueling fears of …
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By LORNE COOK
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6/22/23
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Israeli troops have demolished the home of a Palestinian who is suspected of killing an Israeli soldier last year, in the latest military operation in the increasingly volatile occupied West Bank, …
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6/22/23
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