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Argentina election fight brews over women's rights

Abortion access and women's rights are now in the spotlight of Argentina's presidential election race. The election frontrunner, Javier Milei, opposes abortion and wants to shut the ministry of women, gender and diversity.

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Crammed migrant boat shocks Canary Islands

A group of 271 migrants arrived on Spain’s El Hierro island on Tuesday, all crowded onto the same boat. It had reportedly arrived from Senegal. The Red Cross group that attended those on board said this was a record number of arrivals in...

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U.S House left without speaker

The U.S. House of Representatives for the first time in its history has booted its speaker out of the job, as infighting in the narrow and bitterly divided Republican majority toppled Kevin McCarthy from the position. Until a new Speaker...

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Tourist bus crash near Venice kills at least 21

At least 21 people died on Tuesday and 18 were injured after a bus carrying tourists to a campground crashed off an overpass near Venice in northern Italy and caught fire, city officials said.

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Tourists killed in Thailand mall shooting, teen arrested

Thai police arrested a teenage gunman suspected of killing two foreigners and wounding five people on Tuesday in a shooting spree at a luxury Bangkok mall, the latest high-profile gun violence to rock the country in recent years.

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Bankman-Fried's fraud trial begins in New York

Sam Bankman-Fried's fraud trial got underway with jury selection on Tuesday (October 3), nearly a year after his now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange's collapse shocked markets and tattered his reputation.

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Australia poll shows Voice support up, but not enough

As early voting opens across Australia on amending its constitution to enshrine recognition of its Indigenous people, a poll on Tuesday shows support for the proposal has edged higher, although most voters intend to reject the change in ...

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Push to oust U.S House Speaker Kevin McCarthy

U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy faced a direct threat to his leadership when hardline fellow Republican Representative Matt Gaetz called for a vote to oust him, injecting an additional element of chaos into Congress.

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Crypto exchange Coinbase wins key Singapore license

Coinbase, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, won a key license in Singapore on Monday, allowing it to operate in one of Asia’s biggest crypto hubs. The license, issued by Singapore’s central bank, will allow Coinbase to offer d...

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Kyiv brushes off U.S, Slovakia wobbles in EU visit

EU ministers convened in Kyiv on Monday in their first ever meeting outside the bloc. They marked their support for Ukraine after both a pro-Russian candidate won an election in Slovakia and the U.S. Congress left Ukraine war aid out of ...

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Scientists win medicine Nobel for COVID vaccine work

Hungarian Katalin Kariko and American Drew Weissman have won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries enabling the development of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. The duo, whose discoveries helped in the fight against the gl...

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FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried's U.S trial explained

Sam Bankman-Fried is going on trial on fraud charges in New York starting October 3. This comes nearly a year after FTX, the cryptocurrency exchange he founded, collapsed and declared bankruptcy. The 31-year-old is accused of stealing bi...

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Biden calls on Republicans to back Ukraine spending bill

U.S. President Joe Biden is pressing congressional Republicans to back a bill to provide more aid to Ukraine, after the stopgap-funding bill that kept the government open left aid to the country out.

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Nightclub fire in Murcia kills at least 13 people, more missing

More than a dozen people have been killed in a fire in adjoining nightclubs in Murcia in southeast Spain, emergency services have confirmed, adding that rescuers were still searching for people unaccounted for after the blaze.

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Gunfire, explosions rock Turkey's capital after terror attack

Turkey's government says two terrorists carried out a bomb attack in front of the Interior Ministry buildings in Ankara, adding one of them died in the explosion and the other was "neutralized" by authorities there.

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One villager's 2,500-mile journey to flee Russia

Vira Chernukha, 76, took a 2,500-mile odyssey across three countries to get home from Russia, where she ended up during the invasion last year. She is now the sole resident of Ukraine's Dementiivka village and doesn't plan on leaving.

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Migrants on Mexico cargo trains stuck on U.S border

Migrants were stranded in Mexico on Friday miles from the U.S. border after the freight train they were traveling on top of abruptly stopped, amid the ongoing suspension of dozens of northbound trains over fears around migrant safety.

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Pope Francis cements legacy with new cardinals

Pope Francis further cemented his legacy, elevating 21 prelates to the high rank of cardinal and significantly raising the percentage of electors chosen by him who will have the right to vote for his successor.

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Pakistan blames India for deadly suicide blast

Residents in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province mourned and called for government action as the death toll from a suicide blast climbed and the country's interior minister accused India's intelligence agency of being involved.

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Russian athletes to compete as neutrals at Paris 2024

Russian and Belarusian athletes will compete as neutrals at next year's Paris Paralympics after the International Paralympic Committee voted against maintaining a full ban of the two countries, imposed after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

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Suspect arrested over murder of rapper Tupac

A Nevada grand jury has indicted a former gang leader with the murder of hip-hop star Tupac Shakur three decades ago, a breakthrough in a case that was a defining moment in the history of rap.

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Spanish football in crisis amid referee bribe claims

Spains soccer federation has been raided by police as investigations continue into what a Barcelona court is calling "possible systemic corruption" within the Spanish refereeing committee.

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Rotterdam shooting suspect's troubled past

A medical student suspected of shooting three people dead in the Dutch city of Rotterdam had a history of psychotic behavior and a conviction for animal abuse. He likely targeted his victims intentionally, police and prosecutors said.

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Undeterred migrants flock across U.S border

Large groups of migrants have been flocking across the border into the U.S. in recent days by wading through the Rio Grande river near a railroad bridge in Eagle Pass, Texas. They are risking their lives as well as tougher consequences u...

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Putin meets with top Wagner commander

Russian President Vladimir Putin was shown on state television on Friday meeting Andrei Troshev, one of the most senior former commanders of the Wagner mercenary group. They discussed how best to use "volunteer units" in the Ukraine war.

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Elon Musk wades into U.S immigration debate, visits border

Elon Musk waded into the U.S. immigration debate on Thursday (September 28), paying a visit to the Texas border with Mexico to meet with local politicians and law enforcement amid an upswing in border crossings.

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Court rejects Trump's bid to delay fraud trial

A New York appeals court on Thursday (September 29) refused to delay Donald Trump's scheduled Oct. 2 civil fraud trial, after the former U.S. president accused the trial judge of wrongly refusing to throw out most of the case.

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Student kills three in Rotterdam shooting

A gunman killed three people in the Dutch city of Rotterdam, shooting a local woman and her daughter in their home then storming into a classroom of Rotterdam's university hospital and opening fire on a male teacher.

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Iraq mourners demand accountability

Calls for accountability were growing in the Christian town of Hamdaniya, as grief-stricken mourners watched their loved ones being buried. More than 100 people died and at least 150 were injured at the Iraqi wedding celebration. Governm...

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Swiss glaciers lose 10% of volume in last two years

Switzerland's glaciers are melting at a record rate, shrinking their overall volume by 10% in the last two years, according to a Swiss monitoring body. Switzerland is home to more than half of the glaciers in the Alps.

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