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    News Caught on Camera: Intense takedown after Florida man allegedly stabs girlfriend

    An intense takedown was caught on camera Monday night on Florida’s Treasure Coast. Deputies and a K-9 in Indian River County captured a man who was on the run after being accused of domestic violence. Deputies used their Tasers on him, but he kept trying to get away. Once he was bitten by the...
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    News Scholz party mulls bids to expel German ex-leader Schroeder

    Local officials with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party met Thursday to consider calls to expel former Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. Schroeder's longstanding ties to the Russian energy sector and refusal to distance himself fully from President Vladimir Putin after Russia invaded Ukraine...
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    News Serbia police detain 85 migrants; weapons seized in raid

    Authorities in Serbia on Thursday detained 85 migrants near the border with Hungary where a clash earlier this month apparently involving people smugglers left one person dead and several injured. A police task force found automatic weapons, guns, knives and other weapons and ammunition during...
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    News Fate of Italy's government hangs in balance after setback

    The survival of Italian Premier Mario Draghi’s government hung in the balance Thursday before a crucial Senate vote on a relief bill for soaring energy costs, after a key ally vowed to boycott the measure. While senators publicly debated the bill, which extends gasoline subsidies expiring...
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    News Officials: Russian strike kills 17 people in central Ukraine

    Russian missiles that struck a city in central Ukraine killed 17 people and wounding about 90 more Thursday, Ukrainian authorities said. The country's president called the attack “an open act of terrorism” against civilians in locations without military value. Ukraine’s national police said...
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    News IMF reaches deal with Pakistan to revive $6B bailout

    The International Monetary Fund said Thursday it had reached a preliminary agreement with Pakistan to revive a $6 billion bailout package for this impoverished Islamic nation, which has been facing a serious economic crisis since last year. Pakistan and the IMF originally signed the accord in...
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    News Spain´s running of the bulls ends with swift race, 6 hurt

    Bulls from Spain´s revered Miura ranch starred in a fast and uncomplicated final running of the bulls at this year´s San Fermín Festival on Thursday. The Navarra regional government said six people were treated for minor injuries following Thursday’s run that lasted just over two minutes...
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    News SWAT standoff in Hollywood ends with home being set on fire

    A man was hospitalized Thursday morning after he allegedly barricaded himself inside his home in Hollywood and then set the place on fire. The SWAT standoff in the 2700 block of Dewey Street started sometime Wednesday. By around 4:30 a.m. Thursday, the home was engulfed in flames...
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    News Japan PM blames police for death of former leader Shinzo Abe

    Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Thursday blamed inadequate police security for the death of former leader Shinzo Abe, who was shot while giving an outdoor campaign speech. Abe, one of Japan's most influential politicians, was assassinated last Friday in western Japan, shocking a nation...
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    News Amazon offers concessions to head off EU antitrust case

    Amazon, seeking to resolve two European Union antitrust investigations, has promised to treat third-party merchants on its website fairly, the bloc's competition watchdog said Thursday. The U.S. online retail giant offered to make a number of commitments to ease competition concerns, and the...
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    News US regulators OK new COVID-19 shot option from Novavax

    The U.S. is getting another COVID-19 vaccine choice as the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday cleared Novavax shots for adults. Novavax makes a more traditional type of shot than the three other COVID-19 vaccines available for use in the U.S. -- and one that’s already available in Europe...
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    News Villages battle wildfires in Portugal; Europe swelters

    More than 3,000 firefighters battled alongside ordinary Portuguese citizens desperate to save their homes from several wildfires that raged across the European country on Thursday, fanned by extreme temperatures and drought conditions linked to climate change. The central part of the country...
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    News G-20 finance leaders tackle dire fallout from war in Ukraine

    U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has urged leaders of major economies to work more closely in countering the impact from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Yellen and other top financial officials from the Group of 20 leading rich and developing nations are gathering on the Indonesian island of...
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    News Australia, Indonesia commit to fight against FMD outbreak

    Australia’s top agriculture official met with his Indonesian counterpart on Thursday to discuss ways to stop a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak that has infected hundreds of thousands of cattle in Indonesia and prevent the outbreak from spreading to Australia. The disease was detected in the...
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    News Russia's war to keep hitting EU economy, push up inflation

    Russia's war in Ukraine is expected to wreak havoc with the European Union's economic recovery for the foreseeable future with lower annual growth and record-high inflation, the bloc's economic forecast showed Thursday. The summer figures for the 19-nation eurozone set inflation to reach an...
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    News The Latest: Biden, Israeli PM Lapid, meet in Jerusalem

    The Latest on U.S. President Joe Biden's trip to the Mideast (all times local): JERUSALEM — U.S. President Joe Biden has begun a one-on-one meeting in Jerusalem with Israel’s prime minister, Yair Lapid. Their talks are the centerpiece of a 48-hour visit by the U.S. president aimed at...
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    News UK police open inquiry into Farah trafficking revelations

    London’s Metropolitan Police Service has opened an investigation into four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah’s revealed that he was trafficked to the U.K. as a child. The inquiry comes after Farah, 39, said in a documentary that a woman he didn’t know brought him to the U.K. when he was about 8...
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    News Kevin Spacey faces UK court hearing on sex assault charges

    Kevin Spacey has arrived at London’s Central Criminal Court, where he is due to enter a plea on charges of sexually assaulting three men a decade and a half ago. Spacey, 62, arrived at the court, known as the Old Bailey, more than an hour before Thursday’s hearing was due to start. The hearing...
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    News Ukraine plays special role in France's Bastille Day parade

    The war in Ukraine has even shaken up Bastille Day, a powerful political, historical and symbolic event in France. France is celebrating its national holiday Thursday with thousands of French troops marching down the Champs-Elysees avenue alongside allies from Eastern Europe. The traditional...
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    News WNBA's Griner heads back to Russian court after guilty plea

    American basketball star Brittney Griner is due back in a Russian court Thursday to resume a trial that was jolted last week when she abruptly pleaded guilty to drug possession charges. With the U.S. government under pressure at home to do more to secure her freedom, the guilty plea could be an...
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