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Uncontacted tribe in Peru seen near logging site

12-year-old attacked and taken by crocodile

Paris swims in Seine ahead of Olympics

Protesters vow 'complete shutdown' in Bangladesh

WSJ reporter's Russian espionage trial resumes

106 rare crocodile eggs are found in Cambodia

Interpol arrests 300 in crackdown on crime groups

Ex-North Korean diplomat appointed a vice minister in South Korea, the highest post for any defector

Baltic countries notify Russia and Belarus they will exit the Moscow-controlled electricity grid

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6 bodies were found in a Bangkok hotel room with no signs of violence. Police think they know why
Should visitors to Thailand be concerned about their safety after six people were found dead in a locked hotel room in Bangkok
7/18/2024 07:57:22 EDT

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African Development Bank approves $1B loan to South Africa's state-owned rail and ports company

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FILE - Akinwumi Adesina, President of the African Development Bank, smiles during an interview with The Associated Press in Lagos Nigeria, on March. 5, 2024. The African Development Bank said Thursday July 18, 2024 it had approved a $1 billion loan to South Africa's state-owned rail and ports company, Transnet. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File)

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Media reports say at least 10 more people have died in Bangladesh in student protests over government job quotas

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FILE - Protesters show pictures of COVID victims and placards outside Dorland House as Britain's former Prime Minister Boris Johnson testifies at Britain's COVID-19 public inquiry in London, on Dec. 7, 2023. The U.K. government was ill-prepared for the COVID-19 pandemic and serious errors in planning failed its citizens, an inquiry found Thursday, July 18, 2024. Retired judge Heather Hallett, who is leading the ongoing inquiry, said the government wrongly believed in 2019 that it was one of the best-prepared countries in the world for an outbreak and it anticipated the wrong pandemic — influenza. “This belief was dangerously mistaken," Hallett said in releasing her first report. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

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Syrian President Assad's Baath Party clinches control of parliament, election results show

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FILE - In this photo provided by Saudi Press Agency, SPA, Syrian President Bashar Assad chairs his deletions during the Arab summit in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Friday, May 19, 2023. Syrians were voting for members of a new parliament in an election Monday, July 15, 2024, that was expected to hold few surprises but could pave the way for a constitutional amendment to extend the term of President Bashar Assad.(Saudi Press Agency via AP, File)

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Court says closing arguments in trial in Russia of US journalist Evan Gershkovich to be held Friday

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6 bodies were found in a Bangkok hotel room with no signs of violence. Police think they know why

Should visitors to Thailand be concerned about their safety after six people were found dead in a locked hotel room in Bangkok

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In this photo released by the Royal Thai Police, uneaten meals are left on a table in a room in the Grand Hyatt Erawan Hotel room where six people were found dead from unknown causes, Tuesday, July 16, 2024. Police said the dead in a rooms at Bangkok's Grand Hyatt Hotel were two Vietnamese Americans and four Vietnamese nationals, and speculated they might have died from some kind of poisoning. (Royal Thai Police via AP)

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FILE - In this photo released by Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service on March 23, 2024, firefighters work in the burned concert hall after an attack on the building of the Crocus City Hall on the western edge of Moscow, Russia. (Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service via AP, File)

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Passenger train derails in India, killing at least 2

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Police and rescuers arrive at the site of a passenger train accident near Gonda, 200 kilometers (125 miles) from Lucknow, India, Thursday, July 18, 2024. (AP Photo)

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106 rare crocodile eggs are found in Cambodia, the biggest such discovery in 20 years

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Eggs of a rare Siamese crocodile species hatch in Cardamom National Park in June, 2024. (Toy Ya/Fauna & Flora via AP)

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FILE - Cyril Ramaphosa waves as he arrives ahead of his inauguration as President, at the Union Buildings in Tshwane, South Africa, on June 19, 2024. Ramaphosa will open a new parliamentary term Thursday July 18, 2024 to mark the official start of business for his multi-party coalition government. (Kim Ludbrook/Pool Photo via AP, File)

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South Korea's top court recognizes some rights for same-sex couples

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Gay couple So Seong-wook, left, and Kim Yong Min, leave the Supreme Court building in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, July 18, 2024. (Suh Dae-yeon/Yonhap via AP)

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Who is Itamar Ben-Gvir, the far-right minister who visited a contested Jerusalem holy site?

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FILE - Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir attends a weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Sept. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg, Pool, File)

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Vietnam's President To Lam becomes caretaker of Communist Party while chief Trong focuses on health

The Vietnamese Communist Party says President To Lam on Thursday became the caretaker of the Party while its general secretary Nguyen Phu Trong focuses on receiving treatment for his health

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FILE - Vietnamese General Secretary of the Communist Party Nguyen Phu Trong addresses the media in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Sept. 10, 2023. Vietnamese President To Lam on Thursday July 18, 2024 became the caretaker of the Communist Party because of Trong's poor health, the party said in a statement. (Luong Thai Linh/Pool Photo via AP, File)

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China investigators suspect construction work caused fire that killed 16 people in shopping mall

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In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, fire engines are parked near a department store in Zigong City, southwest China's Sichuan Province on Thursday, July 18, 2024, following Wednesday's deadly fire at the department store. (Wang Xi/Xinhua via AP)

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Here's what to know about the violent protests over government jobs roiling Bangladesh

Bangladesh has been gripped by violence this week after relentless clashes between student protesters, security officials and pro-government student activists over a quota system for government jobs

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Students clash over quota system at Jahangir Nagar University at Savar outside Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday, July 15, 2024. Police have fired tear gas and charged with batons overnight during violent clashes between a pro-government student body and student protesters, leaving dozens injured at a leading public university outside Bangladesh's capital over quota system in government jobs, police and students said Tuesday.(AP Photo/Abdul Goni)

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Kenya bans protests in the capital over security concerns and lack of leadership

Police in Kenya have banned protests in the capital indefinitely citing a lack of leadership that would ensure peaceful protests

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Police officers fire tear gas during a protest in Nairobi, Kenya, Tuesday, July 16, 2024. Police in Kenya hurled tear gas canisters to break up protests on Tuesday in Nairobi and other major cities accusing the president of poor governance and calling for his resignation despite his dismissal of nearly the entire Cabinet last week. (AP Photo/Ed Ram)

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The Latest | Israeli minister's visit to Jerusalem holy site puts pressure on cease-fire talks

A leading far-right figure in the Israeli government visited Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site on Thursday, a move that threatened cease-fire talks to end the 9-month-old war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza

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Destroyed buildings stand in the Gaza Strip during the sunset as seen from southern Israel, Wednesday, July 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

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American who made social media threats against Taylor Swift detained ahead of German concert

Police say an American man who made threats against Taylor Swift on social media was detained ahead of her first concert in the German city of Gelsenkirchen and will be kept in custody until her shows there are over

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FILE - Taylor Swift performs at San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, for her Eras Tour concert, Saturday, July 13, 2024. (Claudio Furlan/LaPresse via AP, File)

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North Korea launches balloons likely carrying trash toward South Korea

South Korea says North Korea has launched balloons likely carrying trash toward South Korea

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FILE - A balloon presumably sent by North Korea, is seen in a paddy field in Incheon, South Korea, on June 10, 2024. South Korea says North Korea has launched balloons likely carrying trash toward South Korea on Thursday July 18, 2024. (Im Sun-suk/Yonhap via AP, File)

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Communist Party meeting ends with vows to promote 'Chinese-style' modernization and protect national security

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South Korea says North Korea has launched balloons likely carrying trash toward South Korea

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Nokia sees double-digit fall in Q2 profit, sales in weak 5G market but sees improved 2nd half

Wireless and fixed-network equipment maker Nokia has reported a double-digit fall in profit and sales in the second quarter due to a continuing weak market as clients are holding off investments in 5G technology

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Protesters vow 'complete shutdown' in Bangladesh after days of violent protest

Police in Bangladesh have clashed with student protesters attempting to impose a “complete shutdown” in the capital

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Images released of uncontacted Amazon rainforest tribe in Peru seen near logging site

Officials believe they are from the largest uncontacted tribe in the world.

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Dozens of uncontacted people deep in the Peruvian Amazon have been captured on camera just several miles from a number of logging areas, a human rights group said, and they are believed to be from the largest uncontacted tribe in the world.

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North Korea plans to launch major tourism site next year though it still blocks foreign tourists

State media say North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has visited a major tourism site being constructed on the country's eastern coast and discussed steps to open the zone by next year

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Serbian police searching for assailant who shot and killed 1 police officer and wounded another

Serbia's Interior Minister says a police officer has been killed and another wounded by an assailant who opened fire after being stopped by a patrol in a border town

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European Central Bank leaves key interest rate at 3.75%, waits for signs inflation is under control

The European Central Bank left its key interest rate benchmark unchanged Thursday as its rate-setting council and President Christine Lagarde take their time to make sure stubborn inflation is firmly under control before lowering rates again

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FILE - President of European Central Bank Christine Lagarde attends a press conference in Frankfurt, Germany, June 6, 2024. Home buyers and businesses waiting for lower interest rates in Europe are going to have to wait a little longer as the ECB takes its time to make sure stubborn inflation is firmly under control before lowering its benchmark rate again. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

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Ursula von der Leyen re-elected to a second 5-year term as European Commission president

Lawmakers at the European Parliament have re-elected Ursula von der Leyen to a second 5-year term as president of the European Union’s executive commission

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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, center, greets European commissioners as she arrives in the plenary of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, Thursday, July 18, 2024. Ursula von der Leyen was making her final pitch Thursday to lawmakers at the European Parliament ahead of a vote on whether to grant her a second five-year term as president of the European Union's executive commission. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

July 18

China Communist Party policy meeting endorses leader Xi's high-tech vision for economy

China's ruling Communist Party has ended a top-level meeting by endorsing policies aimed at building the country's technological power and fortifying its national security

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A robot welcomes visitors to the China Beijing Hi-Tech Expo in Beijing, Tuesday, July 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

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Israeli minister visits sensitive Jerusalem holy site, imperiling Gaza talks

Israel’s far-right national security minister visited Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site on Thursday, a move that could disrupt the delicate Gaza cease-fire talks

July 18

Closing arguments in espionage trial of Wall Street Journal reporter will be Friday, court says

Court officials say closing arguments in the espionage trial of U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich will be held Friday, as the proceedings picked up speed in a case that has seen the reporter held in pre-trial custody for over a year

July 18

A Russian Federal Bailiffs Service employee guards a corridor leading to a courtroom as journalists sit inside the court in Yekaterinburg, Russia, Thursday, July 18, 2024, during a hearing of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich's suspected spying activities. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

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Far right Israeli minister visits Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site, threatening to disrupt Gaza cease fire talks

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July 18

U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich appears in court for the second hearing in his trial on espionage charges

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The uncertainty that plagues life in crisis-ridden Venezuela is also wreaking havoc on relationships

In crisis-ridden Venezuela, nothing has been spared the uncertainty that plagues everyday life

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FILE – Anti-government protesters march along a highway in Caracas, Venezuela, April 19, 2017. Many young people who once joined such demonstrations are now disillusioned and are considering emigrating – and it’s wreaking havoc on the country’s dating scene. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)

July 18

WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich's Russian espionage trial resumes

"Evan cannot be freed soon enough," a Wall Street Journal editor said Wednesday.

July 18

US journalist Evan Gershkovich, accused of espionage, looks out from inside a glass defendants' cage prior to a hearing in Yekaterinburg's Sverdlovsk Regional Court on June 26, 2024.

July 18

US Army honors Nisei combat unit that helped liberate Tuscany from Nazi-Fascist forces in WWII

The U.S. military is celebrating an all-Japanese U.S. Army unit that was key in liberating Italy’s central Tuscan region from Nazi-Fascist forces in July 1944, even while their family members were interned at home as enemies of the state following Japa...

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Yoko Sakato, left, and Valerie Matsunaga, right, relatives of soldiers who fought in the 442nd Infantry Regiment during the World War II, are flanked by U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Michael A. Rosado, as they attend a commemoration at the U.S. military base of Camp Darby, Tuscany, central Italy, Thursday, July 11, 2024. The 442nd Infantry Regiment, known as the Nisei Regiment, was composed almost entirely of second-generation American soldiers of Japanese ancestry, who fought primarily in Europe, particularly in Italy, southern France and Germany.(U.S. Army photo by Elena Baladelli via AP)

July 18

European leaders to discuss migration and Ukraine at a UK summit amid worry about direction of US

Leaders from across Europe are gathering at an English country mansion for a summit of the European Political Community

July 18

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, right, speaks during the first plenary session, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, at the European Political Community meeting in Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England , Thursday, July 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, Pool)

July 18

Bedwetting, nightmares and shaking. War in Gaza takes a mental health toll, especially on children

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza are struggling to maintain their mental health, with few resources and no safe places to recover after nine months of war

July 18

Palestinians displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip are seen at a United-Nation run school, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, June 26, 2024. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza are struggling to maintain their mental health with few resources and no safe places to recover after nine months of war. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

July 18

Ex-North Korean diplomat appointed a vice minister in South Korea, the highest post for any defector

South Korea’s president has appointed a prominent North Korean defector as a vice minister, the highest-level government job for any of the thousands of North Koreans who have resettled in South Korea

July 18

FILE - Tae Yongho, a former minister of the North Korean Embassy in London who fled to South Korea in 2016, speaks to the media in Seoul, South Korea, Feb. 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)

July 17

Buses carrying Chinese tourists veer off New Zealand road in 2 crashes at the same spot. 15 hurt

Two buses carrying Chinese tourists have veered off a road on New Zealand’s South Island in separate crashes, and 15 passengers were taken to hospital

July 17

In this photo provided by Grace Duggin people are in a ditch after a bus carrying Chinese tourists crashed near Lake Tekapo, New Zealand, on Thursday, July 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Grace Duggin)

July 17

Pacific island leaders agree to enhance Japan's role in the region amid growing China influence

Leaders of 18 Pacific island nations and areas have agreed to an enhanced role of Japan in the region’s development while opposing any attempted coercive activity, as Tokyo seeks greater engagement to counter China’s influence

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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks at the Pacific Islands Leaders Meeting, or PALM, in Tokyo, Japan, Thursday, July 18, 2024. (Juntaro Yokoyama/Kyodo News via AP)

July 17

Dominican activists protest against a new criminal code that would maintain a total abortion ban

Activists in the Dominican Republic are protesting against a bill for a new criminal code that would retain a total abortion ban

July 17

Abortion activists protest the proposal of a law, under debate by lawmakers, that would keep a total abortion ban in place in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Wednesday, July 17, 2024. Activists fear it will reduce penalties for sexual violence and fail to protect the LGBTQ community. (AP Photo/Ricardo Hernandez)

July 17

Haiti's prime minister orders gangs to drop weapons and promises to take back control of the capital

Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille has ordered gangs to surrender their weapons and acknowledged how dangerous life in Haiti’s capital and beyond has become

July 17

Tons of dead fish cover major river in Brazil after alleged dumping of industrial waste

Several tons of fish have died along one of the main rivers in Brazil's Sao Paulo state after an alleged illegal dumping of industrial waste from a sugar and ethanol plant

July 17