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Sudan’s military said its top commander, Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, survived a drone attack on a military graduation ceremony that killed five people in the country’s east. The military said in a statement that the attack by two drones took place in Gebeit, a town in eastern Sudan, after
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Fresh demonstrations were expected in Venezuela Tuesday after one person died when security forces tried to break up protests triggered by a hotly disputed election result that gave Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro a third term in power. Security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets Monday at angry protesters challenging
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Bangladesh's government called for a day of mourning Tuesday for victims of violence in nationwide unrest, but students denounced the gesture as disrespectful of classmates killed during clashes with police this month. Student rallies against civil service job quotas sparked days of violence that killed at least 206
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Several people were feared dead after landslides in the hilly region of India’s southern state of Kerala on Tuesday, with heavy rainfall hampering rescue efforts, local media reported. Hundreds of people are likely to be trapped and as many as eight people have died, including a child, several media
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Haiti’s prime minister escaped unharmed Monday after gangs opened fire near a hospital he was visiting, a government source told AFP, as the troubled nation seeks to restore stability after months of gang related violence. Garry Conille, who came to office in June, was leaving the establishment in a
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Peru’s foreign ministry on Monday ordered Venezuelan diplomats accredited in the Andean nation to leave the country within 72 hours, after Venzuela’s ruling party declared an election victory that the Venezuelan opposition and independent pollsters called implausible. The ministry made the announcement in a statement citing the “serious
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The UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) on Tuesday said its officers had arrested a man in connection with a small boat Channel crossing that led to the death Sunday of a woman in France. The NCA said it had detained a 29-year-old Egyptian national in Manston, southern England,
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Bangladeshi students held scattered street protests on Monday after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government ignored an ultimatum to release their leaders and apologize for those killed in deadly unrest. Student rallies against civil service job quotas this month sparked days of violence that killed at least 205 people including
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A stabbing at a children's dance class in northwest England on Monday killed two children and injured nine other people, police said. A 17-year-old boy was arrested and a knife seized after the bloody attack, police said. A witness described seeing bloodied children running from a community center
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France suspects members of far-left groups were behind the sabotage of the country’s high-speed rail network last week just as the Olympic Games were about to begin, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Monday. Saboteurs struck the network on Friday with pre-dawn attacks on signal substations and cables at
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has won a third term with 51 percent of the vote, the country’s electoral authority said just after midnight on Monday, despite multiple exit polls which pointed to an opposition win. The authority said opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez won 44 percent of the vote, though
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More than 5,000 people isolated by flooding in northwest North Korea were rescued in airlifts and other evacuation work supervised by leader Kim Jong Un, state media reported Monday. Heavy rainfall on Saturday had caused a river on the North Korean-Chinese border to exceed a dangerous level and created
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A Belgian judge on Friday charged three Chechens on suspicion of terrorism offenses, the federal prosecutor’s office said, a day after police launched country-wide raids over fears of an attack in preparation. They are suspected of involvement with the Daesh group’s Khorasan offshoot in central Asia. Seven people,
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Senegal intercepted 200 “irregular migrants,” the army said Friday, just days after 90 people drowned off the coast of Mauritania while attempting the same crossing. The Senegalese navy on Friday detained a boat near the northern city of Saint-Louis, the latest in a string of interventions over the last few
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Bangladesh said three student leaders had been taken into custody for their own safety after the government blamed their protests against civil service job quotas for days of deadly nationwide unrest. Students Against Discrimination head Nahid Islam and two other senior members of the protest group were Friday forcibly discharged
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California’s largest active fire exploded in size on Friday evening, growing rapidly amid bone-dry fuel and threatening thousands of homes as firefighters scrambled to meet the danger. The Park Fire’s intensity and dramatic spread led fire officials to make unwelcome comparisons to the monstrous Camp Fire, which burned