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    News 2 UK leadership contenders face head-to-head TV debate

    The two candidates vying to be Britain’s next prime minister will face off in a TV debate Monday, after both sought to woo the Conservative Party’s right-wing base by backing a controversial plan to deport some asylum-seekers to Rwanda. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and former Treasury chief...
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    News Child reportedly among victims in drive-by shooting in Florida City

    Two people were reportedly injured Monday morning in a drive-by shooting in Florida City, including a child. The shooting was reported in the area of Southwest Sixth Place near 10th Street. A Local 10 News crew was outside Kendall Regional Medical Center as one victim was airlifted to the...
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    News Taiwan holds drills amid Pelosi visit concern, China tension

    Taiwan’s capital staged air raid drills Monday and its military mobilized for routine defense exercises, coinciding with concerns over a forceful Chinese response to a possible visit to the island by U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. While there was no direct link between China’s renewed...
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    News Police: Death toll from Kenya bus crash rises to 3O

    The death toll from a bus accident in central Kenya has risen to 30, police said Monday. The passenger bus carrying an unknown number of people on Sunday evening fell off a bridge and plunged into a river along a highway from Meru to the capital, Nairobi. The bus "must have developed brake...
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    News Young Ukrainians use techno parties to rebuild villages

    In a village in northern Ukraine that was devastated by Russian occupation only months ago, a techno party is in full swing. In a bombed-out building, more than 200 young people have found a novel way to help rebuild their country. The daytime “clean-up rave” in Yahidne was organized by young...
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    News 'The money is gone': Evacuated Ukrainians forced to return

    The missile's impact flung the young woman against the fence so hard it splintered. Her mother found her dying on the bench beneath the pear tree where she’d enjoyed the afternoon. By the time her father arrived, she was gone. Anna Protsenko was killed two days after returning home. The...
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    News Tunisians vote on proposal to give president more power

    Tunisians head to the polls Monday to vote on a new constitution — a controversial initiative spearheaded by Tunisian President Kais Saied that critics say will formalize his power grab and reverse hard-won democratic gains in the North African nation. Monday’s referendum marks one year to the...
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    News Chinatown fears community, business loss in 76ers arena plan

    Wei Chen wants people who visit Philadelphia's Chinatown to see past the amber-colored roast ducks hanging in a restaurant window and notice the two older women chatting in Mandarin on the steps to the apartments above. “These apartments are full of people who are low-income, who are elderly...
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    News Myanmar executes NLD lawmaker, 3 other political opponents

    Myanmar's government announced Monday it had carried out its first executions in nearly 50 years, hanging a former National League for Democracy lawmaker, a democracy activist and two men accused of violence after the country's takeover by the military last year. The executions, detailed in the...
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    News Trump v. DeSantis: Young conservatives debate GOP's future

    When former President Donald Trump took the stage before a crowd of more than 5,000 young conservative activists in Tampa this weekend, he received the rock star's welcome he’s grown accustomed to over the seven years in which he’s reshaped the Republican Party. One night earlier, it was...
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    News AP-NORC poll: 2 in 3 in US favor term limits for justices

    About 2 in 3 Americans say they favor term limits or a mandatory retirement age for Supreme Court justices, according to a new poll that finds a sharp increase in the percentage of Americans saying they have “hardly any” confidence in the court. The poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center...
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    News Pope set for historic apology for school abuses in Canada

    Thousands of Indigenous persons are expected to converge Monday on the small Alberta prairie community of Maskwacis to hear a long-awaited apology from Pope Francis for generations of abuse and cultural suppression at Catholic residential schools across Canada. Francis is scheduled to arrive in...
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    News Alaska experiencing wildfires it's never seen before

    Alaska is burning this year in ways rarely or ever seen, from the largest wildfire in a typically mainly fireproof southwest region to a pair of blazes that ripped through forests and produced smoke that blew hundreds of miles to the the Bering Sea community of Nome, where the normally crystal...
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    News Asian shares start week lower, tracking Wall St retreat

    Asian shares opened mostly lower on Monday after a retreat on Wall Street spurred by disappointing economic data and corporate earnings. Oil prices also slipped. Investors are awaiting the next move by the U.S. Federal Reserve, which is expected to raise its key interest rate again on Wednesday...
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    News North Korea pushes traditional medicine to fight COVID-19

    As a medical student in North Korea, Lee Gwang-jin said he treated his fevers and other minor ailments with traditional herbal medicine. But bad illness could mean trouble because hospitals in his rural hometown lacked the ambulances, beds, even the electricity at times needed to treat critical...
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    News US conservatives embracing controversial Hungarian leader

    When heads of state visit the U.S., the top item on their itinerary is usually a White House visit. For Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban next month, it will be addressing a conference of conservative activists in Dallas. Orban's appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference...
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    News Authorities: 7 hurt in shooting at Los Angeles park

    At least seven people have been injured after gunfire erupted Sunday at a Los Angeles park where a car show was being held. The LA Police Department said the shooting occurred around 3:50 p.m. at Peck Park in LA’s San Pedro neighborhood. The LAPD tweeted it wasn’t an active shooter situation...
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    News Alex Jones' defamation trial finally set to begin in Texas

    Jury selection is set for Monday in a trial that will determine for the first time how much Infowars host Alex Jones must pay Sandy Hook Elementary School parents for falsely telling his audience that the deadliest classroom shooting in U.S. history was a hoax. The trial in Austin, Texas —...
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    News Video captures Miami Beach police takedown; suspect says cops were in the wrong

    A 20-year-old tourist says cell phone video obtained by Local 10 News, showing Miami Beach police taking him to the ground and tasering him, depicts officers roughing him up unnecessarily. But police are presenting a different story. The incident happened early Friday morning, at 900 Ocean Dr...
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    News China adds science lab to its orbiting space station

    China added a laboratory to its permanent orbiting space station Monday as it moves toward completing the structure in coming months. The Wentian lab module was launched from the Wenchang space base on the tropical island province of Hainan on Sunday with a large crowd of amateur photographers...
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