The former personal lawyer of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has joined the ranks of the country’s Supreme Court amid criticism that their relationship poses a conflict of interest. …
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By DIANE JEANTET
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8/3/23
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Tunisia’s interior minister has conceded that small groups of sub-Saharan migrants trying to enter the country are pushed back into the desert border areas. In an interview with The Associated …
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By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA
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8/3/23
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is challenging all countries to tell Russia to stop using the Black Sea and Ukraine’s grain as “blackmail” and stop treating the world’s hungry and …
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By EDITH M. LEDERER
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8/3/23
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Polish and Lithuanian leaders have held an urgent meeting in a strategically sensitive area where their NATO nations border Belarus and the Russian territory of Kaliningrad. The leaders warned that …
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By VANESSA GERA
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8/3/23
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At least 13 people have been injured in South Korea when a man rammed a car onto a sidewalk and then stepped out of the vehicle and began stabbing people near a subway station in the city of …
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8/3/23
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The Dutch government says a freight ship carrying thousands of cars that burned for a week on the North Sea will be towed to a Dutch port for salvage. The Ministry of Infrastructure and Water …
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By PETER DEJONG
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8/3/23
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A cautious calm returned to Lebanon’s Ein el-Hilweh Palestinian camp in south Lebanon after a night of renewed clashes. Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp is home to about 50,000 people. …
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By ABBY SEWELL and FADI TAWIL
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8/3/23
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Violent unrest is rising in Ethiopia's Amhara region after attempt to disarm fighters, witnesses say
Witnesses say violent unrest is escalating in Ethiopia’s Amhara region as federal security forces clash with a local ethnic militia. The deputy prime minister in an unusually outspoken statement …
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By CARA ANNA
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8/3/23
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Israel’s Supreme Court has heard a petition against a law that protects Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from being removed from office over claims of a conflict of interest because of his ongoing …
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8/3/23
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An Indian court says officials can conduct a scientific survey of a 17th-century mosque in northern India to determine if it was built over Hindu temple. The Gyanvapi Mosque in the Hindu pilgrammage …
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By BISWAJEET BANERJEE
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8/3/23
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Niger’s ruling junta and civil society groups are calling on the nation to mobilize in the capital to fight for the country’s freedom and push back against foreign interference. Thursday's march …
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By SAM MEDNICK
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8/3/23
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Israel is being rocked by a wave of mass protests calling for the country’s democracy to be upheld. But the pro-democracy movement lacks any clear message of opposition to Israel’s open-ended …
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By TIA GOLDENBERG
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8/3/23
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The search for an Australian army helicopter that crashed at sea killing four people during a military exercise with the United States has found human remains but not the black box crucial to …
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By ROD McGUIRK
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8/3/23
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Singapore has executed a third prisoner in two weeks for drug trafficking, despite calls for the city-state to halt capital punishment for drug-related crimes. The Central Narcotics Bureau said …
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By EILEEN NG
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8/3/23
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The United States is praising Kenya's interest in leading a multinational force in Haiti. But weeks ago, the U.S. openly warned Kenyan police officers against violent abuses. Now 1,000 of those …
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By CARA ANNA
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8/3/23
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The typhoon that damaged homes and knocked out power on Okinawa and other Japanese islands this week is slowly moving west but is forecast to make a U-turn and dump even more rain on the archipelago. …
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By MARI YAMAGUCHI
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8/3/23
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At least 83 people were treated for heat-related illnesses at the World Scout Jamboree being held in South Korea, which is having one of its hottest summers in years. The Ministry of Interior and …
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8/2/23
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The Mexican government says the first dead body has been spotted along the floating barriers that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott installed recently in the Rio Grande river, across from Eagle Pass. Mexico's …
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8/2/23
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Amnesty International has accused Sudan’s warring factions of committing “extensive war crimes” including mass killing of civilians and rape and sexual slavery of women in their monthslong …
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By SAMY MAGDY
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8/2/23
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NATO allies located along the alliance’s eastern front are growing increasingly worried about the presence of Russia-linked Wagner group mercenaries in Belarus. Poland, Lithuania and Latvia, have …
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By VANESSA GERA
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8/2/23
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