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Jul 2022
Abe's shooting shocks world leaders.

KUALA LUMPUR (Malaysia) -- Leaders from all walks of the globe condemned Friday's assassination by Shinzo Abe, the former Japanese Prime Minister, as "despicable," cowardly, and terrorist, while remembering him as a man who is committed to international...

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09
Jul 2022
Speaker of the Sri Lankan Parliament: The President will resign Wednesday

COLOMBO (Sri Lanka) -- President Gotabaya Rajapaksa will resign in the next days, the speaker at Sri Lanka's Parliament stated on a tumultuous weekend that saw the prime minister announce he would resign and protestors storming the residences of both...

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09
Jul 2022
Estonian PM signs a coalition agreement for majority government

HELSINKI -- Estonia's center-right Reform Party is forming a coalition government with two parties. This will end a month-long political deadlock in the Baltic country. After disputes over spending and welfare policy, Kallas was thrown out of the two-party...

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09
Jul 2022
Pamplona claims that no one was killed on the third day of bull run

PAMPLONA (Spanish) -- Officials said that thousands of thrill-seekers managed to avoid being gored Saturday at the bull run of Pamplona's San Fermin Festival. They revised an earlier report that stated two bull horns had stabbed them. Officials from...

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09
Jul 2022
Italy: 11 hikers were killed in a glacier avalanche.

ROME -- Italian authorities put the death toll from an avalanche that struck northern Italy at 11. They said that all victims were identified almost a week after a piece of ice fell from a melting glacier, sending a torrent of rock and debris down on hikers...

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09
Jul 2022
UK defence minister rules himself out from leadership race

LONDON -- The Conservative Party's frontrunner for the leadership race was a British Cabinet minister who ruled himself out Saturday. After careful consideration and discussion with his family and colleagues, Ben Wallace, Defense Minister, said he would...

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09
Jul 2022
Shinzo Abe, Japan's former leader, was assassinated while delivering a speech

TOKYO -- A gunman opened fire from behind on Shinzo Abe, former Prime Minister, as he gave a speech in campaign -- an attack that shocked a country with strict gun control laws. Abe, a 67-year old leader in Japan, collapsed and was flown to Nara. His heart...

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09
Jul 2022
Russia continues to "raise true hell," Ukraine Governor says

KYIV, Ukraine -- Russian forces continue to "raise hell" in Ukraine's eastern industrial heartland, despite reports that they are taking an operational pause. Meanwhile, Kyiv's government urged residents in Russian-occupied areas in the south to...

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09
Jul 2022
Tokyo mourns the death of ex-PM Abe and receives Abe's body

TOKYO -- Shinzo Abe, Japan's former Prime Minster, was returned to Tokyo Saturday following his death in a gunshot during a speech in western Japan on Saturday. Abe was attacked in Nara. He was airlifted by the local hospital, but died from blood loss...

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09
Jul 2022
Canada: Many without internet and mobile service in Canada due to an outage

TORONTO -- Many Canadians were without internet and mobile service Friday due to a widespread network outage. This disrupted police, court and business services. People flocked to coffee shops offering Wi-Fi and rushed to get work done. Rogers Communications...

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09
Jul 2022
Srebrenica women are honored for highlighting the 1995 massacre

SREBRENICA (Bosnia-Herzegovina) -- They lived in a world where their husbands, children, brothers, uncles, nephews, and sons were murdered. They were the ones who stood up for the truth about Srebrenica. As thousands gather in the eastern Bosnian city to...

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09
Jul 2022
Former Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos dies at 79

LISBON (Portugal) -- Jose Eduardo dos Santos was once Africa's longest-serving ruler. He led Angola through the longest civil war in Africa and made his country a major oil producer, as well as one the poorest and most corrupt countries in the world,...

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09
Jul 2022
EU: Johnson's exit will not change much; damage has already been done

BRUSSELS -- Since his days of inciting anti-European Union sentiment through exaggerated newspaper articles, to his populist campaign leading Britain from the bloc and reneging upon the post-Brexit Trade Deal he signed, the outgoing U.K. Prime minister Boris...

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08
Jul 2022
After being arrested in Nicaragua, a dissident finally emerges from the country a year later

MEXICO CITY -- Felix Maradiaga, the wife of a Nicaraguan activist, told journalists that her husband had lost over 65 pounds in his year in prison. She was worried about his health. The government of President Daniel Ortega brought the former presidential...

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Jul 2022
Former Japan PM is attacked by a nation known for gun control

TOKYO -- Friday's assassination in broad daylight of Shinzo Abe, former Prime Minister, shocked a world that associates Japan with low crime and strict gun control. Abe, Japan's longest serving prime minister was shot in his back while campaigning...

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Jul 2022
EU, Morocco renew migration deal after Spanish border deaths

RABAT (Morocco) -- Friday's pledge by the European Commission to increase its cooperation with Morocco in fighting human smugglers using "new, extremely brutal methods" came two weeks after 23 people were killed at the border of Morocco and Melilla,...

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08
Jul 2022
Syria's Assad visits Aleppo, a power plant once held by rebels

BEIRUT -- President Bashar al-Assad paid a rare visit in the northern province Aleppo to see the country's largest city, and to inaugurate a power plant that was once controlled by insurgents. The station suffered extensive damage during the war. State...

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08
Jul 2022
First call for years by Israeli PM and Palestinian leader

RAMALLAH (West Bank) -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas received a call Friday from Israel's caretaker Prime Minister, Yair Lepid. This was the first such conversation between Abbas with an Israeli premier in many years. This call was made amid rare...

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08
Jul 2022
Shinzo Abe, former PM of Japan, has left a divided legacy

TOKYO -- Shinzo abe was a political blueblood who was groomed to power. He was Japan's longest-serving prime minister and perhaps the most complex, polarizing politician in recent Japanese history. Friday's assassination of Abe angered liberals...

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08
Jul 2022
Sea turtles from Israel are being released into the wild after they were rescued.

MICHMORET (Israel) -- More than a dozen endangered sea turtles were rescued from major injuries in the Mediterranean. They made their way to Israel's beach on Friday, after months of medical treatment. After months of rehabilitation at central Israel's...

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08
Jul 2022
In Bosnia, thousands march to remember the Srebrenica massacre

NEZUK (Bosnia-Herzegovina) -- On Friday, thousands marched through eastern Bosnia in a peaceful march in memory of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. This is Europe's only recognized genocide since World War II. The march covers 100 kilometres (60 miles)...

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Jul 2022
UK appoints Counterterror Officer to Head Troubled London Police

LONDON -- The British government announced Friday that Mark Rowley, a veteran counterterrorism officer, will become the new chief for London's troubled Metropolitan Police force. After a series of scandals that undermined public confidence, Rowley was...

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08
Jul 2022
Here's a look at some of the most high-profile assassinations of politicians this century

ATHENS (Greece) -- A gunman opened fire on Shinzo Abe, the former Japanese Prime Minister, as he was delivering a campaign speech in western Japan. This shocked Japan. Here's a look at some other high-profile assassinations of politicians in the 21st...

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08
Jul 2022
EU, Morocco renew migration deal after Spanish border deaths

RABAT (Morocco) -- Friday's pledge by the European Commission to increase its cooperation with Morocco in fighting human smugglers using "new, extremely brutal methods" came two weeks after 23 people were killed at the border of Morocco and Melilla,...

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