World
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UK pushes ahead with Rwanda migrant scheme as small boats keep coming
Housed in a detention centre in southern England, Aladeen says he risked his life to travel thousands of miles from his homeland of Syria to escape being forced to fight in the military of President …
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[Photos] Egyptian church fire kills at least 41, most of them children
An electrical fire swept through an Egyptian Coptic Christian church during Mass on Sunday, causing a stampede and killing at least 41 people, most of them children and many suffering from smoke inha…
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Author Salman Rushdie taken off ventilator following stabbing incident
Author Salman Rushdie was taken off the ventilator on Saturday in a sign of improving health, a day after he was stabbed as he prepared to give a lecture in upstate New York. In a now-deleted tweet, …
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Shock grips Freetown as dozens were killed amid Sierra Leone protests
Dozens died in anti-government protests in Sierra Leone, police and other sources said on Thursday, sharply raising the death toll from the previous day’s clashes as shocked citizens stayed mostly be…
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Wildfires rage, farmers struggle as another heatwave bakes western Europe
Wildfires tore through parts of France, Spain and Portugal on Thursday as heatwaves baked Europe and the head of the European Space Agency urged immediate action to fight climate change. More than 1,…
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McDonald’s to begin reopening Ukraine restaurants
McDonald’s Corp said on Thursday it plans on reopening its restaurants in Ukraine over the next few months in an early sign of western businesses returning to the country, even as the conflict with R…
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Man, 75, arrested for rape and murder of 15-year-old girl who he stabbed 59 times 40 years ago
Police have announced the arrest of a man living in Hawaii for abducting, sexually assaulting and repeatedly stabbing a 15-year-old girl as she was on her way to a bus stop in California nearly 40 ye…
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Brazilians resort to poisoning of monkeys over growing fears of Monkeypox
Brazilians have started attacking monkeys by poisoning them over fears they are responsible for the growing monkeypox virus outbreak. Local reports said that 10 monkeys had been poisoned in less tha…
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Ukraine says 11 killed overnight, Britain flags new Russian force
Russian shelling killed 11 people in Ukraine’s central Dnipropetrovsk region overnight, governor Valentyn Reznychenko said on Wednesday, as Britain said Russia had “almost certainly” established a ma…
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Biden signs in historical $52bn chips subsidy boost, in bid to rival China
President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed a landmark bill to provide $52.7 billion in subsidies for U.S. semiconductor production and research and to boost efforts to make the United States more competit…