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Despite protests by animal rights activists, an alpine Italian province has confirmed the killing of a female bear believed responsible for an attack on a French hiker earlier this month

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An Israeli military court is due to hold a hearing Tuesday for nine soldiers detained for questioning over alleged abuse of a Palestinian at a shadowy facility where Israel has held prisoners from Gaza during the war

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One person has died and nearly 150 others have been sickened after eating grilled eel prepared by a restaurant chain and sold at a department store near Tokyo

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British police say a third child has died after a stabbing at a yoga and dance class; 5 others remain critical

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Officials say a bulletproof vehicle carrying local staff working for a U.N. development agency came under gun attack in Pakistan's volatile northwest but no one was harmed

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U.K.-based oil giant BP PLC said it will reward shareholders to the tune of $7 billion this year through the purchase of its own stock, even as it reported a near 30% decline in profits in the first half of 2024

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Bangladesh is observing a day of mourning in memory of more than 200 people killed in recent weeks during violence that evolved from student protests over a quota system that reserved 30% of government jobs for war veterans

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Germany’s highest court has upheld the central part of an electoral reform designed to downsize the country’s increasingly bloated parliament

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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez opted not to testify before a judge at the presidential complex as part of the investigation into corruption allegations against his wife, lawyers who took part in the questioning say

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A 9-year-old girl died on Tuesday morning in the hospital, police said.

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Taylor Swift says she is 'in shock' after 2 children died in an attack on a UK dance class themed on the singer

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Air New Zealand has scrapped its 2030 carbon emissions reduction targets, citing lags in producing new planes, a lack of alternative fuel and “challenging” regulatory and policy settings

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China’s powerful Politburo has endorsed the ruling Communist Party's strategy for growing the economy by encouraging more consumer spending and weeding out unproductive companies to promote “survival of the fittest.”

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Eurozone economy grew modestly by 0.3% in the second quarter as Germany shrank, highlighting growth gap with U.S.

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A police officer has testified that he did not know where bullets were coming from as two colleagues were shot in an ambush by three Christian extremists on a rural Australian property two years ago

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British police are questioning a suspect and working to understand what motivated a 17-year-old boy to attack children at a Taylor Swift-themed dance and yoga class, leaving three dead and six in critical condition

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Interpol says more than 200 people have been arrested and some $1.6 billion worth of illegal drugs and precursor chemicals seized as part of a two-month operation against narcotics trafficking across Europe, North America and Africa

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France has backed Morocco’s autonomy plan for the disputed Western Sahara, shifting a decades-old position and adding itself to a growing list of countries to align with Morocco as a United Nations-mediated peace process remains stalled

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Officials say heavy monsoons in northwest Pakistan triggered flash flooding, killing at least 14 people, 11 from the same family

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The Taliban on Tuesday disavowed many Afghan diplomatic missions overseas, saying it will not honor passports, visas and other documents issued by diplomats associated with Afghanistan’s former Western-backed administration

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The Taliban disavows many Afghan diplomatic missions in Europe and rejects their consular services

July 30

Death toll rises to 49 in landslides in southern India with the full scope of disaster still unknown

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Turkish legislators have approved a new law aimed at removing millions of stray dogs from Turkey’s streets that animal lovers fear will lead to many stray dogs being killed or ending up in neglected, overcrowded shelters

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Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te has welcomed what he said is the largest ever delegation of foreign lawmakers to Taiwan, even as Beijing pressured members of the delegation not to visit

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Australia’s foreign minister says a recent defense deal between North Korea and Russia is destabilizing and “risky for the world."

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A pair of Syrians have created a community that provides support to migrants and vulnerable people in Rome, by sharing the flavors of a homeland torn by civil war

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Skin diseases are running rampant in Gaza, health officials say, from appalling conditions in overcrowded tent camps housing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians driven from their homes

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Two days after a rocket slammed into a soccer pitch in the Israel-controlled Golan Heights, killing 12 children, many questions remain about the attack on the Druze town of Majdal Shams

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A state health minister says 24 bodies found after landslides in southern India as rescuers work their way through mud

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Chinese state media say torrential rains have left seven people dead and three others missing in the country's southeast, raising the death toll from a tropical storm to 22

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Like many Mediterranean islands, people in Sicily are used to long spells without rain, but human-caused climate change has made weather more erratic, and droughts can be longer and more frequent

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In a blunt signal to discourage the West from increasing military support for Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin says Russia could revise its nuclear doctrine regarding the use of its atomic arsenal

July 30

The office of Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille says security officers had to fire shots to cover leader’s exit from a hospital in Port-au-Prince

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A passenger train has derailed in eastern India, killing at least two passengers and injuring 20 others

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Multiple landslides triggered by torrential rains in southern India have killed 70 people and left many others feared trapped under the debris

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Indian media say 5 people have died and others are trapped in debris after rains caused landslides in Kerala state

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Washington officials in Manila have announced $500 million in funding to boost Philippine defenses and progress in a proposed military intelligence-sharing pact amid shared concerns over China's increasingly aggressive actions in the region

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ABC News' Britt Clennett reports on a Palestinian family's unique struggle for urgent care and to reunite with their father amid a deadly war.

July 29

Add Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to the growing list of foreign leaders with whom tech billionaire Elon Musk has picked a fight

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Evidence was found in marine sedimentary rocks near Gabon in Central Africa.

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The shooters are believed to have been aiming for a rival drug dealer.

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Guatemala’s government has given temporary residency to 207 Mexicans, mostly children, on humanitarian grounds, after they fled across the border last week to escape drug violence

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Venezuelan opposition coalition says it has proof its candidate, Edmundo Gonzalez, defeated President Maduro

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walks the bloodied scene of a soccer field as the country decides how to respond to the attack believed to be caused by Hezbollah forces. Our panel weighs in.

July 29

Venezuela is facing a political standstill after both incumbent President Nicolás Maduro and the country’s main opposition coalition claimed victory in Sunday’s presidential election

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Morocco’s King Mohammed VI has pardoned three journalists who were charged with sex crimes and espionage in prosecutions widely condemned by press freedom advocates as retaliation for critical reporting

July 29

Morocco releases journalists imprisoned in widely condemned prosecutions after pardon from King

July 29

Authorities late in Greece have ordered multiple evacuations due to a wildfire on the island of Evia, near Athens, with conditions worsening after nightfall when firefighting planes and helicopters were unable to operate

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Police said the incident was in Southport, a town north of Liverpool.

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Thousands of people have rallied in several towns in Serbia to protest a lithium excavation project the Balkan country’s government recently signed with the European Union

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