A crush at the opening ceremony of the Indian Ocean Island Games in Madagascar kills at least 12
A crush at a stadium in Madagascar has left at least 12 people dead and 85 injured as sports fans attended the opening ceremony of the Indian Ocean Island Games
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France and EU to spend 215 million euros shoring up struggling wine producers
The French government and the European Union will spend 200 million euros ($215 million) to help the country's wine producers, who are struggling to cope with falling prices and waning demand.
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Yale's police union distributes 'misleading' flyer on crime rates for first-year students, university says
As new students arrived on campus for the fall semester at Yale University, they were given flyers containing "misleading ... disturbing and inflammatory rhetoric" about the school's safety, according to university officials.
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A Palestinian dies a month after being shot during an Israeli raid in the West Bank
The Palestinian news agency has reported that a 20-year-old died of wounds a month after being shot during an Israeli army raid in the occupied West Bank
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This week was a perfect snapshot of America's political mess
The exhausting view of this bizarre week -- with the first GOP presidential primary debate one day, followed by the fourth arrest this year of the former president the next -- is that everyone should prepare for so much more of this uniquely American and continuously unbelievable political spectacle.
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Hawaii's cherished notion of family, the 'ohana, endures in tragedy's aftermath
Hundreds of homes are gone, scores of lives lost and hundreds of people still missing after a fire ripped through the town of Lahaina
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The British Museum says it has recovered some of the stolen 2,000 items
The British Museum says it has recovered some of the 2,000 items believed to have been stolen by an insider
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Moscow airports suspend flights following latest reported drone strike
Russian media say a drone attack on Moscow forced a temporary shutdown of all three major airports serving the city
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After Prigozhin, who will stick their head above the parapet in Putin's Russia?
The wreckage of Yevgeny Prigozhin's Embraer private jet has been cleared from the crash site, and the flight How will the Russian landscape change after the exit of the man, Yevgeny Prigozhin, who presented the most serious challenge to Putin's rule in over two decades?
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Germany's Scholz vows a quick resolution to his coalition government's latest standoff
German Chancellor OIaf Scholz is vowing that his coalition government will quickly resolve a dispute over child benefits that has marred attempts to put months of damaging public infighting behind it
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Greek fire officials arrest 2 for arson as multiple wildfires continue to burn across the country
Fire department officials say two men have been arrested in different parts of Greece on suspicion of deliberately starting wildfires
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How forensic investigators use DNA, fingerprints and other methods to identify remains after a fire
The devastating fires in Maui have caused at least 115 deaths, yet only 46 of those have been identified two weeks on from the blaze, police said Thursday. Hundreds of people remain unaccounted for, too.
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