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A Swiss court sentences a former Gambian interior minister to 20 years for crimes against humanity
Switzerland’s top criminal court has convicted a former interior minister of Gambia for crimes against humanity for his role in murder, torture and other repression by the west African country’s security forces against opponents of its longtime dictator
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Pickup driver with lengthy record held in Florida bus crash that killed 8 Mexican farmworkers
A man with a long record of dangerous driving has pleaded not guilty to driving under the influence-manslaughter in the deaths of eight Mexican farmworkers in Florida
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Slovakia's populist prime minister shot in assassination attempt, shocking Europe before elections
Slovakia’s populist prime minister, Robert Fico, was shot multiple times and gravely wounded after a political event in an attempted assassination that shocked the small country and reverberated across Europe
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Stock market today: Wall Street rises toward records after inflation finally slows
U.S. stocks are rising toward records with hope that inflation is heading back in the right direction
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'Furiosa' debuts in Cannes, giving Anya Taylor-Joy a megawatt movie-star moment
“Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” rolled into the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday, returning George Miller’s dystopia-on-wheels to the French Riviera festival and lending Anya Taylor-Joy a fairy tale moment on the Cannes red carpet
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Netanyahu fends off criticism at home and abroad over his lack of a postwar plan for Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is fending off criticism that he is not planning for a postwar reality in the Gaza Strip, saying it's impossible to prepare for any scenario in the embattled Palestinian enclave until Hamas is defeated
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Ukrainian troops pull out of some areas and Zelenskyy postpones foreign trips amid Russian offensive
Ukrainian forces have withdrawn from some parts of the country’s northeast and were battling Russian troops in other areas
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France imposes emergency in Pacific territory of New Caledonia as violent unrest turns deadly
The French government has announced it will impose a state of emergency in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia for at least 12 days, boosting police powers in an attempt to quell deadly unrest that has left four people dead
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Senators urge $32 billion in emergency spending on AI after finishing yearlong review
A bipartisan group of four senators led by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is recommending that Congress spend at least $32 billion over the next three years to develop artificial intelligence and put safeguards around it
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Investigation continues into 4 electrical blackouts on ship that caused Baltimore bridge collapse
Investigators say the electrical blackouts experienced by the container ship Dali before it left Baltimore’s port were “mechanically distinct from” those that resulted in the deadly collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge hours later
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