A far-right Israeli lawmaker, joined by scores of ultranationalist supporters, has entered Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site early Sunday, prompting a crowd of Palestinians to begin throwing …
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5/29/22
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Rescuers in Indonesia are searching for 25 people who are missing after a cargo boat sank in the Makassar Strait in South Sulawesi province. A total of 42 people were on the boat when it sank in bad …
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5/29/22
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Landslides caused by heavy rains killed at least 29 people in the state of Pernambuco in northeast Brazil on Saturday. Authorities say that in Alagoas, another state in the region, two people died …
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By DÉBORA ÁLVARES
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5/28/22
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Iranian riot police fired tear gas and shot into the air to disperse an angry crowd of hundreds of people near the site of a building collapse in the southwestern city of Abadan. That's according to …
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By JON GAMBRELL
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5/28/22
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Pope Francis, the archbishop of Canterbury and a church of Scotland prelate will together lead a prayer vigil for peace while visiting South Sudan next month. The Vatican on Saturday released details …
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By FRANCES D'EMILIO
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5/28/22
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Cardinal Angelo Sodano, a once-powerful Italian prelate who long served as the Vatican's No. 2 official, has died. He was 94. Pope Francis in a condolence telegram Saturday to the retired prelate's …
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By FRANCES D'EMILIO
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5/28/22
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Albania says former President Bujar Nishani has died at 55 following a serious health problem. President Ilir Meta wrote on Facebook that he had learned “with sadness and deep regret that President …
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By LLAZAR SEMINI
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5/28/22
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To a threatening soundtrack of air raid sirens and booming artillery, civilians are fleeing towns and cities in eastern Ukraine as Russian forces advance. The process can be slow, physically arduous …
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By ELENA BECATOROS and NICOLAE DUMITRACHE
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5/28/22
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The new president of the Italian Conference of Bishops says he would launch an independent inquiry on sex abuse by Catholic clergy in Italy. The announcement Friday disappointed victims advocates, …
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By PAOLO SANTALUCIA
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5/27/22
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Police say two climbers have been killed and nine others injured by falling blocks of ice in the Alps in southern Switzerland. Police in Valais canton (state) were alerted shortly after 6 a.m. Friday …
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5/27/22
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Residents in China's largest city of Shanghai have become bolder in demanding the lifting or easing of coronavirus restrictions that have left millions locked up in their compounds for almost two …
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By EMILY WANG FUJIYAMA
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5/27/22
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With one of Europe’s largest gay pride celebrations right around the corner, Spain's LGBTQ community is worried that the outbreaks of monkeypox on the continent could lead to an increase of …
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By ALICIA LEÓN and IAIN SULLIVAN
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5/27/22
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About two weeks after North Korea acknowledged its first domestic COVID-19 outbreak, it says about 3.3 million people have come down with fever but only 69 have died. If they were all virus patients, …
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By HYUNG-JIN KIM
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5/27/22
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A documentary about discrimination within the ranks of Dutch police has sparked a national conversation in the Netherlands about racism. “The Blue Family,” or “De Blauwe Familie” in Dutch, …
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By MOLLY QUELL
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5/27/22
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Senegal's president says 11 newborns have died in a fire that broke out in the neonatal unit of a hospital. Authorities in the town of Tivaouane said only three babies could be saved after a short …
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By BABACAR DIONE
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5/26/22
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Some of the more than 840 Haitians who tried to reach the United States in a boat but ended up in Cuba say Thursday that they fled violence in their country and were charged thousands of dollars by …
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By MILEXSY DURÁN and ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ
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5/26/22
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The International Organization for Migration says up to 600 people attempting to reach Europe by sea from Tunisia and Libya have gone missing during the first three months of 2022. That is the …
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By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA
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5/26/22
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Congo military officials said that the M23 rebels closed in on a major military camp in the country’s east after days of fighting the army. Clashes continued Thursday at the Rumangabo base in the …
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By JEAN-YVES KAMALE
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5/26/22
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A Tokyo court has begun hearings in a lawsuit seeking nearly $5 million in damages for six people who were children in Fukushima at the time of its 2011 nuclear power plant disaster and later …
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By MARI YAMAGUCHI
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5/26/22
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For nearly three centuries, Muslims and Hindus in India’s Varanasi city have prayed to their gods in a mosque and a temple that are separated by one wall. But that religious coexistence is under …
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By SHEIKH SAALIQ and KRUTIKA PATHI
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5/26/22
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