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Israel military says ‘high possibility’ Al Jazeera journalist killed by one of its soldiers

The Israeli army has concluded there is a “high possibility” a journalist who died while covering a raid in the occupied West Bank was killed by one of its soldiers.

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Trial Opens in France for Bastille Day Terrorist Attack in Nice

Seven men and one woman went on trial accused of helping the driver of a truck that barreled through a crowded seaside promenade on Bastille Day six years ago killing 86 people in a terrorist attack that scarred France’s national psyche.

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Trial Opens in France for Bastille Day Terrorist Attack in Nice

Seven men and one woman went on trial accused of helping the driver of a truck that barreled through a crowded seaside promenade on Bastille Day six years ago killing 86 people in a terrorist attack that scarred France’s national psyche.

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Liz Truss set to become new UK Conservative prime minister amid inflation crisis

Britain’s Conservative Party has chosen Foreign Secretary Liz Truss as the party’s new leader, putting her in line to be confirmed as prime minister. Truss’s selection was announced Monday in London after a leadership election in which only about 170,000

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In further blow to independent media, Russia revokes print license of top newspaper

Court accepts petition by state media watchdog against Novaya Gazeta; Nobel Prize-winning chief editor vows to appeal ‘political’ ruling

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Markets Slip as Britain Gets a New Prime Minister and Energy Worries Grow

Liz Truss, the Conservative Party’s choice, will face a falling British pound and myriad economic troubles.

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Markets Slip as Britain Gets a New Prime Minister and Energy Worries Grow

Liz Truss, the Conservative Party’s choice, will face a falling British pound and myriad economic troubles.

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‘Zombie ice’: Greenland’s melting glacier to raise sea levels nearly 1 foot, double previous estimate

We speak with glaciologist David Bahr, who co-authored a shocking new study this week revealing Greenland’s melting ice sheet will likely contribute almost a foot to global sea level rise by the end of the century. The report, published in

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Bookish and traumatized: the real Marilyn Monroe comes to Venice

Sixty years after her death, Marilyn Monroe is back in the limelight as the subject of the buzzy Netflix biopic ‘Blonde’, which premiers at the Venice Film Festival on Thursday. Based on the bestselling, semi-fictionalised book by Joyce Carol Oates,

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Arrest warrants issued for two men wanted over Canada mass stabbing – as image of suspected getaway car released

Arrest warrants have been issued for two men suspected of killing 10 people in a mass stabbing in Canada – as an image of the car they were seen travelling in was released.

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