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Slovenia police remove protesters from Ljubljana square

Slovenian riot police have removed protesters from a central square in the capital Ljubljana during weekly demonstrations against the center-right government
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BLM protests, Supreme Court decision, graduation ceremonies: World in Photos, June 19

A look at the week's top photos from around the globe.
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VIDEO: BLM protests, Supreme Court decision, graduation ceremonies: World in Photos, June 19
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Germany, France, UK press Iran to provide atomic site access

The Russian representative to the United Nations’ atomic watchdog agency says its board has adopted a resolution calling for Iran to provide inspectors access to sites where the country is thought to have stored or used undeclared nuclear material
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FILE - In this Monday, March 9, 2020 file photo, Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Rafael Mariano Grossi from Argentina, addresses the media during a news conference after a meeting of the IAEA board of governors at the International Center in Vienna, Austria. Mariano Grossi told reporters Monday June 15, 2020, Iran must provide inspectors access to sites where the country is thought to have stored or used undeclared nuclear material. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak, File)
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Police fire tear gas at protest against Mali's president

Police have fired tear gas at protesters demanding Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita’s resignation
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AP Interview: Ethiopia to fill disputed dam, deal or no deal

It’s a clash over water usage that Egypt calls an existential threat and Ethiopia calls a lifeline for millions out of poverty
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This satellite image taken Thursday, May 28, 2020, shows the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile river in the Benishangul-Gumuz region of Ethiopia. In an interview with The Associated Press Friday, June 19, 2020, Ethiopia's Foreign Minister Gedu Andargachew declared that his country will go ahead and start filling the $4.6 billion Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam next month, even without an agreement with Egypt and Sudan. (Maxar Technologies via AP)
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Black Lives Matter spurs scrutiny of Dutch colonial past

The 17th century has gone down in Dutch history as the Golden Age, when unprecedented trading wealth helped fund the likes of artists Rembrandt van Rijn and Johannes Vermeer
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In this Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013, file image, Netherlands' King Willem-Alexander and his wife Queen Maxima arrive in the Golden Carriage at Noordeinde Palace, after the King officially opened the new parliamentary year in The Hague, Netherlands. Even the horse-drawn Golden Carriage, currently undergoing a lengthy restoration but traditionally used to carry the Dutch monarch to the state opening of Parliament each year, has drawn criticism because one of its panels, center, is decorated with a painting depicting Africans and Asians carrying goods to present to their colonial masters. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, file)
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Puerto Rico hit with water rationing amid severe drought

Puerto Rico’s government has announced water rationing measures as 26% of the U.S. territory faces a severe drought amid the pandemic
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Poland says Putin falsifies history to weaken Western allies

The Polish government says that Russian President Vladmir Putin is manipulating World War II-era history in a way that whitewashes Soviet crimes and accuses him of doing it as part of an “information war” against the West
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Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to Yury Chikhanchin, head of Russia's Federal Financial Monitoring Service (Rosfinmonitoring) during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, June 18, 2020. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
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Belarus' authoritarian leader claims foreign plot thwarted

Belarus’ authoritarian president says that his government has thwarted a foreign-inspired plot to to destabilize the ex-Soviet nation ahead of the August presidential election in which he is seeking a sixth term
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FILE - In this Saturday, May 9, 2020 file photo, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko gives a speech during a military parade that marked the 75th anniversary of the allied victory over Nazi Germany, in Minsk, Belarus. Lukashenko said Friday, June 19 that his government has thwarted plans to destabilize Belarus ahead of a presidential vote in August, a statement that follows the detention of his top challenger, Viktor Babariko, the former head of Russia-owned Belgazprombank.(Sergei Gapon/Pool via AP, File)
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Pompeo: China uses disinformation to split Europe, US

U_S_ Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says China is trying to drive a wedge between the United States and Europe by using “disinformation and malicious cyber campaigns."
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FILE - In this June 11, 2020, file photo, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at the State Department in Washington. The Trump administration is ramping up pressure on Syrian President Bashar Assad and his inner circle with a raft of new economic and travel sanctions for human rights abuses. (Yuri Gripas/Pool via AP)
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1 dead in Toronto shooting; 2 suspects seen fleeing scene

Canadian police say one man has died after a shooting in Toronto’s north end
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Iranian ex-judge dies in Romania, falls from hotel window

An Iranian police official says that a former Iranian judge sought by his country to face corruption charges has died after a fall in a hotel
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Forensic worker carry a body from a hotel downtown Bucharest, Romania, Friday, June 19, 2020. Gholamreza Mansouri, a former judge from Iran sought by his country to face corruption charges has died in unusual circumstances, Romanian media reported. Romanian police said only that a man had fallen from a high floor at a hotel in Bucharest, the Romanian capital, and was found dead. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)
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Hungry neighbors cook together as virus roils Latin America

“Community pots” have become ubiquitous across Peru recently as coronavirus quarantines and shutdowns leave millions of poor people with no way to feed their families
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A woman hauls a bucket of water to her home in the early morning hours in the Nueva Esperanza neighborhood of Lima, Peru, Wednesday, June 3, 2020. Economic shutdowns aimed to curb the spread of new coronavirus have forced poor Peruvians, Argentines and tens of millions of others to fall back on community-based efforts amid the new coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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China charges 2 Canadians with spying in Huawei-linked case

Chinese prosecutors have charged two detained Canadians with spying in an apparent bid to step up pressure on Canada to drop a U.S. extradition request for a Huawei executive
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FILE - In this March 2, 2017, file image made from video, Michael Spavor, director of Paektu Cultural Exchange, talks during a Skype interview in Yanji, China. China has charged two detained Canadians with spying in cases linked to Canada’s arrest of a Huawei executive on U.S. charges. Chinese prosecutors said Friday, June 19, 2020, that Spavor and Michael Kovrig have been charged. (AP Photo, File)
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Google loses appeal against $56 million fine in France

France’s highest administrative court has upheld a fine of 50 million euros ($56 million) that Google was ordered to pay for not being “sufficiently clear and transparent” with Android users about their data protection options
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FILE - In this file photo dated Nov. 18, 2019, Google employees walks out of Google France building in Paris. France. France’s highest administrative court on Friday June 19, 2020, has upheld a fine of 50 million euros (dollars 56 million US) against Google for not being “sufficiently clear and transparent” with users of Android about their data protection options. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)
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1 dead in Toronto shooting, possible suspects seen fleeing: Police

The shooting reportedly took place before noon local time.
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Police cruiser flashing red and blue emergency lights.
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Putin orders officials to fully clean Arctic fuel spill area

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his government to fully repair environmental damage from a massive fuel leak in the Arctic
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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a video call on dealing with the aftermath of a fuel spill in the Arctic at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, Friday, June 19, 2020. A power plant in Norilsk leaked 20,000 tons of diesel fuel into the ecologically fragile region last month, fouling waterways in the area. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
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Canada's loss of UN Security Council seat a blow to Trudeau

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declared “Canada is back” on the world stage when he was elected five years ago, and he made winning a seat on the U.N. Security Council a top foreign-policy priority
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FILE - In this May 15, 2020, file photo, sparse traffic due to coronavirus, moves past the United Nations headquarters New York. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declared “Canada is back” and made winning a seat on the powerful U.N. Security Council a top foreign policy priority. But Canada lost out to Norway and Ireland in a three-way race for two seats. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)
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Wirecard CEO quits after auditors can't find $2.1 billion

The CEO of Germany's Wirecard has resigned after auditors couldn't find 1.9 billion euros in cash
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FILE - In this Thursday, April 25, 2019 file photo the logo of financial services company wirecard is pictured at the headquarters in Munich, Germany. Shares in German payment service provider Wirecard AG plunged Thursday as the company announced it was postponing its delayed annual report yet again. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, file)
June 19

Greece: Wildfire halts traffic on main highway

A wildfire north of Athens has halted traffic on a section of Greece's main highway
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Bank of England apologizes for past links to slavery

The Bank of England has apologized for the links past governors of the institution had with slavery
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FILE - In this Friday, Aug. 17, 2007 file photo, a chart shows slave trade records, on display at the new International Slavery Museum in Liverpool, England. Britain’s largest companies have promised to offer funds to benefit projects assisting minorities in the latest sign of Britain’s reckoning with its role in the slave trade. Insurance giant Lloyd’s of London and pub chain Greene King made the pledges after they were named in a University College database of firms involved in the slave trade, it was reported on Thursday, June 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Dave Thompson, File)
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South African choir adapts to COVID-19 by making new music

The dusty streets of rural South Africa are a far cry from the bright lights of “America’s Got Talent,” but that’s where the members of the Ndlovu Youth Choir find themselves coping with the coronavirus pandemic
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In this photograph taken Thursday May 21, 2020, children play in a rural village in the Moutse Valley, 160 kms (100 miles) north east of Johannesburg, South Africa, near the clinic where the Ndlovu Youth Choir waits to be processed for Covid-19 testing. Finalists of the 2019 edition of the U.S. television show America's Got Talent, the coronavirus crisis put the choir's dreams on hold, as their tour got cancelled, and they returned to rural South Africa. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
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Croatia jails 2 police amid migrant violence reports

Croatia has detained two police officers suspected of injuring a migrant as the European Union country faces renewed reports of violence and pushbacks against people crossing from Bosnia or Serbia while trying to reach Western Europe
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India's opposition leaders question Modi over China clash

India’s prime minister is meeting with top opposition leaders who question whether intelligence failures allowed China to build up its forces in disputed Himalayan territory ahead of a clash that killed 20 Indian soldiers
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Doctors pay tributes to Indian soldiers killed during confrontation with Chinese soldiers in the Ladakh region, while holding their photos in New Delhi, India, Thursday, June 18, 2020. Twenty Indian troops were killed in a clash with Chinese soldiers in the Galwan Valley area Monday night that was the deadliest conflict between the sides in 45 years. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
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Turkey says will work with Italy for Libya peace, slams EU

The Turkish foreign minister says Turkey and Italy, which back the U.N.-recognized government in Libya, will work for a lasting peace and political solution in the conflict torn country
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Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, right, and Italy's Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio say goodbye by using their elbows after their joint press conference, in Ankara, Turkey, Friday, June 19, 2020.(Fatih Aktas/Turkish Foreign Ministry via AP, Pool)
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EU leaders face challenges to move quickly on recovery deal

European Union leaders have found that a quick deal on the bloc’s future long-term budget and a multibillion-euro post-pandemic recovery plan remains beyond their reach as the coronavirus ravages their economies
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French President Emmanuel Macron attends a video European Council summit at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Friday, June 19, 2020. As they brace for the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, leaders of the European Union's 27 member states discuss Friday the bloc's future long-term budget and a multi-billion post-coronavirus recovery plan during a video-summit aimed at paving the way for a compromise later this summer. (Eliot Blondet/Pool Photo via AP)
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Mission accomplished: Malala gets Oxford degree

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager once shot by the Taliban for daring to want an education, has completed her degree at Oxford University
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FILE - In this Wednesday, May 29, 2019 file photo, Malala Yousafzai is interviewed ahead of the Cricket World Cup opening party along The Mall in London. Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl once shot by the Taliban for daring to want an education, has completed her degree at Oxford University. The Nobel Peace Prize winner posted images on Twitter on Friday, June 19 of her celebration upon completing a degree in philosophy, politics and economics. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, file)
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Military jets perform flypast over Paris

British and French military aerobatics display teams perform a flypast over Paris to mark the 80th anniversary of General de Gaulle's call for wartime resistance during World War Two.
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VIDEO: Military jets perform flypast over Paris
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AP Interview: Martin Lee sees end of the Hong Kong he knows

The man nicknamed Hong Kong’s “Father of Democracy” says Beijing is trying to take control of the semi-autonomous city with an impending national security law, but added that violent protest is not the answer
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Pro-democracy lawyer Martin Lee posts before an interview in Hong Kong, Friday, June 19, 2020. Lee said Friday that Beijing was trying to wrest control of Hong Kong with the impending national security law, and urged people to protest peacefully without violence. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
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Europol: Rise in online child abuse content in lockdown

The European Union police agency is warning that during the coronavirus lockdowns offenders are increasingly trying to access material depicting the sexual abuse of children
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Separate attacks target security forces, kill 4 in Pakistan

Police in Pakistan say a roadside bomb and a hand-grenade attack targeting security vehicles hours apart have killed at least four people in the country's south
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Pakistani security personnel cordon off the area of a roadside bomb and a hand-grenade attack targeting security vehicles in Karachi, Pakistan, Friday, June 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
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BMW to drop 6,000 jobs through turnover, early retirement

Automaker BMW says it will drop 6,000 jobs through early retirements and turnover as the auto industry adjusts to a sharp drop in demand due to the coronavirus outbreak
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South's unification minister resigns as Korean tensions rise

South Korea's president has accepted the resignation of his point man on North Korea, who had asked to quit after the North destroyed a liaison office while ramping up pressure against Seoul amid stalled nuclear negotiations
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FILE - In this June 4, 2019, file photo, South Korean Unification Minister Kim Yeon-chul answers a reporter's question during a meeting with the members of foreign media in Seoul, South Korea. South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Friday, June 19, 2020 accepted the resignation of Kim, Moon's point man on North Korea, who had asked to quit after the North destroyed a liaison office while ramping up pressure against Seoul amid stalled nuclear negotiations with the Trump administration. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)
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1 New Zealand officer killed, 1 injured during traffic stop

New Zealand police say an unarmed officer has been fatally shot and another wounded in Auckland during what began as a routine traffic stop
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Armed police gather at the scene of a shooting incident following a routine traffic stop in Auckland, New Zealand, Friday, June 19, 2020. New Zealand police say a few officers have been shot and seriously injured and a suspect is on the run. (Michael Craig/New Zealand Herald via AP)
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1 migrant dead, 6 injured in car chase and crash in Greece

Greek police say a migrant from Pakistan has died and six others were injured when the car they were in crashed during a nighttime police chase in northern Greece
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China says it has not seized any Indian soldiers

China has said that it has not detained any Indian soldiers, following Indian media reports that China had released 10 of them late Thursday
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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) members shout slogans as they burn an effigy of Chinese President Xi Jinping during a protest against China in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, June 19, 2020. India's prime minister is meeting top opposition leaders Friday as the government tries to lower tensions with China after 20 Indian soldiers were killed in a clash in a Himalayan border region. India and China accuse each other of instigating the fight in the Galwan Valley, part of the disputed Ladakh region along the Himalayan frontier. It was the deadliest conflict between the sides in 45 years. China has not said whether it suffered any casualties. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)
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Serbs to vote amid virus concerns, political divisions

Serbia is holding a parliamentary vote this weekend that takes place amid concerns over the continuing spread of the new coronavirus and political divisions in the Balkan country
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In this photo taken on Tuesday, June 16, 2020, a man wearing a face mask to protect against coronavirus, passes by election posters showing Serbian Right leader Misa Vacic, that reads: "We know each other well, we grew up together!", in Belgrade, Serbia. Serbia is holding a parliamentary vote this weekend that takes place amid concerns over the continuing spread of the new coronavirus and political divisions in the Balkan country. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
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China says it never detained Indian soldiers, after Indian media reports say China had released 10 of them

China says it never detained Indian soldiers, after Indian media reports say China had released 10 of them
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India-China Himalayan standoff deadly for cashmere herds

A standoff between Indian and Chinese troops high in the Himalayas near Tibet is taking a dire toll on traditional goat herds that supply the world's finest, most expensive cashmere
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FILE - In this July 21, 2007, file photo, an elderly man belonging to the Changpa, the nomadic herders who rear the Pashmina goats, holds his Himalayan goat as his son cuts its horn that was hurting the animal's eye in Kharnak, some 185 kilometers (116 miles) from Leh, India. A months-long military standoff between India and China in 2020 has taken a dire toll on local communities as tens of thousands of Himalayan goat kids die because they couldn't reach traditional winter grazing lands, officials and residents said. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin, File)
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Palestinians fear displacement from an annexed Jordan Valley

Israel's plans to annex the Jordan Valley have sparked an international outcry
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File - In this Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020 file photo, a Palestinian demonstrator covers his face from tear gas fired by Israeli forces as he holds a poster of -U.S. President Donald Trump during a protest against President Donald Trump's Mideast initiative, in Jordan Valley in the West Bank. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to annex the valley and all of Israel's far-flung West Bank settlements, in line with President Donald Trump's Middle East plan, which overwhelmingly favors Israel and has been rejected by the Palestinians. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed, File)
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AP Week in Pictures, Latin America & Caribbean

AP Week in Pictures, Latin America & Caribbean
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Art teacher Jorge Manolo Villarroel, wearing a Spider-Man costume, teaches an online class from his home, amid the new coronavirus pandemic in La Paz, Bolivia, Tuesday, June 9, 2020. Villarroel, who lives in a poor neighborhood of the capital, teaches art at the San Ignacio Catholic School in a wealthier area of the city. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
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Xu Lei, head of JD Retail, second from left, sounds the gong to mark the listing of JD.com on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange at the JD.com headquarters in Beijing on Thursday, June 18, 2020. Chinese e-commerce firm JD.com's stock jumped nearly 6% on its debut in Hong Kong on Thursday after the firm raised $3.9 billion in a share sale. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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China's top lawmakers take up draft Hong Kong security law

China’s top legislative body has taken up a draft national security bill for Hong Kong that has been strongly criticized as undermining the semi-autonomous Chinese region's legal and political institutions
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Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam listens to reporters' questions during a press conference in Hong Kong, Tuesday, June 16, 2020. Lam said she hoped that the opposition would not “demonize and stigmatize” the national security law as doing do would mean pitting themselves against the people of Hong Kong. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
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Oriel College wants to remove statue of colonialist Cecil Rhodes

Cecil Rhodes served as prime minister of Cape Colony, in present-day South Africa, from 1890 to 1896.
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Cecil Rhodes served as prime minister of Cape Colony, in present-day South Africa, from 1890 to 1896.
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Puerto Rico gov unveils budget critics say is unrealistic

Puerto Rico’s governor is promising wage increases for teachers, police officers, firefighters and other public workers, unveiling a government budget bigger than the one submitted by a federal control board that oversees the island’s finances
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FILE - In this July 29, 2015 file photo, the Puerto Rican flag flies in front of Puerto Rico's Capitol as in San Juan, Puerto Rico. A federal control board that oversees Puerto Rico’s finances submitted a proposed $10 billion budget on Thursday, June 11, 2020, as federal legislators debate whether to curtail the board’s power over the U.S. territory. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo, File)
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AP PHOTOS: AP Week in Pictures, Asia

June 12-18, 2020 This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Asia and Pacific. The gallery was curated by AP photo editor Masayo Yoshida in Tokyo. Follow AP visual journalism: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/apnews AP Images on Twitter: http://twitter.com/AP—Images AP Images blog: http://apimagesblog.com
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Visitors wearing face masks to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, take a selfie at the Hong Kong Disneyland on Thursday, June 18, 2020. Hong Kong Disneyland on Thursday opened its doors to visitors for the first time in nearly five months, at a reduced capacity and with social distancing measures in place. The theme park closed temporarily at the end of January due to the coronavirus outbreak, and is the second Disney-themed park to re-open worldwide, after Shanghai Disneyland. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
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Tokyo gov seeks 2nd term, says Japan unprepared for pandemic

Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike is favored to win a second term in a July 5 election after taking a proactive approach to controlling coronavirus outbreaks in Japan's capital
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Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike speaks during an exclusive interview with The Associated Press at her office of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building in Tokyo Wednesday, June 17, 2020, ahead of a two-week campaigning for the election. A political go-getter, Koike even had the coronavirus crisis turn in her favor. And she repeatedly upstaged Prime Minister Shinzo Abe by taking more proactive steps ahead of him, gaining public support. Timing is also on her side now, she is cruising to a certain victory in the July 5 election for her second term as head of the Japanese capital. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
June 19

Newborn otters step out for first time at the London Zoo

Newborn otter pups Bubble and Squeak ventured outside for the first time, days before the London Zoo reopened its doors to the public. (edited)
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VIDEO: Newborn otters step out for first time at the London Zoo
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India seeks eased tensions with China after Himalayas clash

India says it is using diplomatic channels with China to de-escalate a military standoff in a remote Himalayan border region where at least 20 Indian soldiers were killed this week
June 19
People pay tribute to Indian army soldier Sunil Kumar, who was killed during confrontation with Chinese soldiers in the Ladakh region, as his body was brought to Jai Prakash Narayan airport, in Patna, Bihar state, India, Wednesday, June 17, 2020. Twenty Indian troops were reportedly killed, in the clash in the Ladakh region late Monday that was the first deadly confrontation on the disputed border between India and China since 1975. (AP Photo/Aftab Alam Siddiqui)
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Arrest of ex-aide to Bolsonaro’s son another hit for leader

Brazilian authorities have arrested a man long sought as part of an investigation into allegedly suspicious movements of money he made while serving as a driver to Flávio Bolsonaro, a Brazilian senator and son of President Jair Bolsonaro
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