The Palestinian Health Ministry says a teenager who was shot by Israeli troops last week after throwing a firebomb in the occupied West Bank has died. The Palestinian’s death on Monday was the …
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8/7/23
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Stormy weather across northern Europe has killed at least one person and caused airport delays, suspended ferry services and a train’s partial derailment. Police in Sweden said no one was injured …
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By JAN M. OLSEN
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8/7/23
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In late June, the Amazon city of Guajara-Mirim approved a law that designates the Komi Memem River “as a living entity and subject to rights.” The author of the initiative is the Indigenous …
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By FABIANO MAISONNAVE, TERESA DE MIGUEL AND ANDRÉ PENNER
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8/7/23
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Thailand's populist Pheu Thai party has announced it will form a coalition with a party from the outgoing military-backed administration to try to end nearly three months of political deadlock after …
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By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI
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8/7/23
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Officials say a multinational force is helping Cyprus fight a stubborn wildfire that has scorched miles of mountainous terrain in the summer heat. Lebanon, Greece and Jordan have sent helicopters and …
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By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS
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8/7/23
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Officials say engineers have partially restored passenger rail service in southern Pakistan, a day after a passenger train derailed there, killing at least 30 people and injuring 90 others. Local …
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By ASIM TANVEER
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8/7/23
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The class of 2023 has already endured COVID-19 lockdowns and university strikes. Now thousands of college students across Britain are unable to graduate or face indefinite delays in receiving their …
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By SYLVIA HUI
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8/7/23
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Niger’s mutinous soldiers have closed the country’s airspace and accused foreign powers of preparing an attack, as the junta defied a deadline to restore the ousted president and said any attempt …
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By SAM MEDNICK
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8/7/23
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South Korea is preparing to evacuate tens of thousands of scouts from a coastal jamboree site as Tropical Storm Khanun looms, world scouting officials said said Monday. The World Organization of the …
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8/7/23
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India’s top opposition leader Rahul Gandhi has been reinstated as a lawmaker in Parliament three days after the country’s top court halted his criminal defamation conviction for mocking the prime …
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8/7/23
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Cambodia’s king has appointed army chief Hun Manet to succeed his father and long-ruling Prime Minister Hun Sen as the nation’s leader later this month. The royal decree signed Monday means Hun …
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By SOPHENG CHEANG
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8/7/23
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Iran has begun registering candidates for parliamentary elections in March, which will be the first since nationwide protests rocked the country last year. Iran has held regular presidential and …
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8/7/23
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A senior Philippine official tells The Associated Press that the Philippine government has summoned the Chinese ambassador to convey a diplomatic protest over the Chinese coast guard’s use of a …
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By JIM GOMEZ
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8/7/23
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's social media feeds suggest he's been busy unveiling development projects and rubbing shoulders with foreign leaders — the powerhouse embodiment of an ascendant …
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By KRUTIKA PATHI
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8/7/23
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Israeli troops have killed three alleged Palestinian militants in the northern West Bank. Sunday's shooting further escalated a wave of violence in which two other people were killed over the …
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8/6/23
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An Iraqi airline says it's not to blame for a bear's escape from a crate in the cargo hold of one of its planes in Dubai. Iraq’s prime minister has ordered the country’s transportation minister …
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By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and ABDULRAHMAN ZEYAD
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8/6/23
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Dozens saved by Italy from migrant shipwrecks; some, clinging to rocks, plucked to safety by copters
Dozens of migrants have been dramatically brought to safety by Italian rescuers as they foundered in the sea or clung to a rocky reef. In a particularly risky operation, two helicopters battled …
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By FRANCES D'EMILIO
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8/6/23
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Ukraine has replaced the Soviet emblem that once adorned one of the nation’s most recognizable landmarks with the country’s coat of arms. Erected in 1981, the Mother Ukraine monument rises 200 …
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By The Associated Press
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8/6/23
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The far-right Alternative for Germany has declared the European Union a “failed project” in its current form as it adopts its program for next June’s European Parliament election at its party …
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8/6/23
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Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan has spent the night in a high-security prison after he was arrested at his home. A court handed him a three-year jail sentence Saturday for corruption, a …
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8/6/23
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