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China's economic growth slows following COVID lockdowns

Friday, July 15, 2022

China's economy contracted in the three months ending in June compared with the previous quarter after Shanghai and other cities shut down to fight coronavirus outbreaks.

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How do you move 250 elephants to their new home? Very carefully

Thursday, July 14, 2022

One by one, the elephants are being sedated and moved from Malawi's overcrowded Liwonde National Park to the much larger Kasungu park 236 miles away in the country's north.

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NTSB now says a 13-year-old was not a driver in a Texas crash that killed 9 people

Thursday, July 14, 2022

A Texas man, not his 13-year-old son, was driving the pickup truck that crossed into the oncoming lane and struck a van carrying New Mexico college golfers, killing nine people, investigators said.

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Italy's president rejects Prime Minister Mario Draghi's offer to resign

Thursday, July 14, 2022

The premier offered to quit after a coalition ally refused to support a key bill, but the nation's president asked Draghi to see if he can still find a majority in Parliament willing to back him.

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Twitter users were unable to access their accounts for about an hour

Thursday, July 14, 2022

The global outage came at a tumultuous time for Twitter, which has sued billionaire Elon Musk in an attempt to force him his $44 billion purchase of the company.

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Crews have found all 44 Virginia residents who were missing after flooding

Thursday, July 14, 2022

Authorities in southwest Virginia had feared the worst as they were inundated with calls from people who said they were unable to reach family members. But by noon Thursday, everyone had been located.

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The war in Ukraine is playing a special role in France's Bastille Day parade

Thursday, July 14, 2022

France is celebrating its national holiday with thousands of French troops marching down the Champs-Elysees avenue alongside Eastern European allies touched most closely by the war in Ukraine.

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Spacey pleads not guilty to charges in the U.K. that he sexually assaulted three men

Thursday, July 14, 2022

Actor Kevin Spacey's trial in the United Kingdom has been scheduled to begin in June 2023. He faces a separate civil sex-assault lawsuit in the United States from another man, actor Anthony Rapp.

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A U.S. tourist is rescued after falling into a crater in Italy's Mount Vesuvius

Wednesday, July 13, 2022

The tourist and relatives were cited by local police because they went off the authorized path to get closer to the crater, apparently to take a selfie, according to news reports.

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A former CIA engineer is convicted in a massive theft of secrets released by WikiLeaks

Wednesday, July 13, 2022

Joshua Schulte, who represented himself in his retrial, told jurors that the CIA and FBI made him a scapegoat for an embarrassing public release of a trove of CIA secrets by WikiLeaks in 2017.

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The bodies of a missing man and his 3 children are found in an Indianapolis pond

Wednesday, July 13, 2022

The man and his three young children vanished last week after leaving for a fishing trip. Their bodies were found along with a submerged car in the pond where they were headed, authorities said.

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A judge rejects Amber Heard's request to set aside the verdict for Johnny Depp

Wednesday, July 13, 2022

A Virginia judge on Wednesday rejected an effort by actress Amber Heard to set aside the $10 million judgment awarded against her in favor of her ex-husband, Johnny Depp.

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Rowdy the runaway cat is caught after weeks on the lam at Boston's airport

Wednesday, July 13, 2022

The 4-year-old black cat with green eyes escaped her cage on June 24. She eluded airport and airline personnel, animal experts and safe-release traps until Wednesday.

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What's happening in Sri Lanka and what comes next

Wednesday, July 13, 2022

The double whammy of government and economic instability is further complicating recovery, and the country is hurtling toward bankruptcy.

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Protesters in Sri Lanka brave tear gas and storm prime minister's office

Wednesday, July 13, 2022

The move on the prime minister's office follows the country's president fleeing the country.

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A heat wave forecast for Spain and Portugal is fueling wildfire worries

Wednesday, July 13, 2022

Meteorologists said an overheated mass of air and warm African winds are driving temperatures in the Iberian Peninsula beyond their usual highs.

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A state judge temporarily blocked Louisiana from enforcing its abortion ban

Tuesday, July 12, 2022

The judge's order halts enforcement temporarily while lawyers for a north Louisiana clinic and other supporters of abortion rights pursue a lawsuit challenging the legislation.

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Sri Lanka's president flees the country

Tuesday, July 12, 2022

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had already agreed to resign. Protesters had stormed his home and office and the official residence of his prime minister amid a three-month economic crisis.

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Biden administration: Doctors must offer abortion if mom's life is at risk

Tuesday, July 12, 2022

HHS told hospitals that they "must" provide abortion services if the life of the mother is at risk, saying federal law on emergency care preempts state laws that now ban abortion without exception.

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Japanese people say their final goodbyes to former leader Shinzo Abe at his funeral

Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Japanese bid their final goodbye to former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday as a funeral was held at a temple days after his assassination that shocked the nation.

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