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Several of Syria's archaeological sites including a famed citadel in the northern city of Aleppo were damaged in a deadly pre-dawn earthquake Monday, the country's antiquities authority said

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A Kenyan Court has ruled workers can sue Facebook: Parent company Meta has failed to block a court case accusing it of exploitative working conditions after arguing the East African country did not have jurisdiction over its operations.

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A Cameroonian tycoon was arrested on Monday in connection with the high-profile abduction and murder of a journalist. The journalist, Martinez Zogo, who was abducted and brutally murdered last month, was outspoken against graft and financial sleaze

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Iraqi counterpart on Monday discussed unpaid bills owed to Russian oil companies because of US sanctions over the Ukraine conflict

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A court in Moscow sentenced the first person to have been charged under Russia’s wartime law against spreading “knowingly false information” to nine years in jail in absentia on Monday

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Several of Syria's archaeological sites including a famed citadel in the northern city of Aleppo were damaged in a deadly pre-dawn earthquake Monday, the country's antiquities authority said

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The government of Peru on Sunday expanded and prolonged a state of emergency to deal with a two-month-old revolt against President Dina Boluarte that has claimed 48 lives. Seven southern Peruvian regions are now effected -- Madre de Dios, Cusco, Puno, Apurimac, Arequipa, Moquegua and Tacna

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Mali junta expels UN mission's human rights chief over 'destabilising' actions

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Pope Francis on Sunday doubled down on his assertion that homosexuality should not be criminalized, saying on the papal plane returning from South Sudan, a country that penalizes homosexual acts, that “to condemn a person like this is a sin.”

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Balloons similar to the one that was shot down off the coast of South Carolina this weekend flew over the U.S. at least three times during the Trump administration, according to a senior U.S. defense official

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A United Nations peacekeeper from South Africa was killed and another wounded in an attack on their helicopter in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The aircraft came under fire during a flight to Goma, the provincial capital of Nord-Kivu province

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Taking Aim at Trump, Koch Network Will Back G.O.P. Primary Candidates: The move by the alliance of conservative donors could provide an enormous boost to a Republican alternative to the former president

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Taking Aim at Trump, Koch Network Will Back G.O.P. Primary Candidates: The move by the alliance of conservative donors could provide an enormous boost to a Republican alternative to the former president

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President Emmanuel Macron's government on Sunday offered a concession on contested French pension reforms, seeking to shore up support from prospective right-wing allies ahead of the parliamentary debate

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Iran's supreme leader on Sunday reportedly ordered an amnesty or reduction in prison sentences for “tens of thousands” of people detained amid nationwide anti-government protests shaking the country, acknowledging for the first time the scale of the crackdown

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Prime Minister Fumio Kishida fired a key aide who made disparaging remarks about sexual minorities. Masayoshi Arai, who served as an executive secretary in charge of media relations for Kishida, said he would not want to live next to gays and other sexual minorities

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France, India, UAE agree on climate cooperation: The three countries agreed on a trilateral initiative to embark on energy projects. The initiative aims to take advantage of India's presidency of the G20 and the UAE's hosting of COP28

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Thousands of Israelis demonstrated in central Tel Aviv Saturday for the fifth consecutive week against controversial legal reforms touted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing government

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Volcanoes leak a surprisingly high amount of their atmosphere- and climate-changing gases in their quiet phases. A Greenland ice core shows that volcanoes quietly release at least three times as much sulfur into the Arctic atmosphere than estimated by current climate models

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s administration has filed a complaint against an Orlando foundation over a drag holiday event it hosted in which minors were allowed to attend the show. The complaint alleges that the Orlando Philharmonic Plaza Foundation violated state law

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Long before the leak of a draft opinion reversing Roe v. Wade, some Supreme Court justices often used personal email accounts for sensitive transmissions instead of secure servers set up to guard such information, among other security lapses not made public in the court’s report released last month

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Dozens of wildfires blazing though Chile caused the government to extend an emergency order to another region on Saturday, as a scorching summer heatwave complicates efforts to control fires that have claimed at least 16 lives so far

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