International
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Italy Declares Red Heatwave Alert for Rome, Four Other Cities
The red alert, the first of the year in Italy, is issued to warn of “possible negative effects on the health of healthy, active people” and advise the public to stay out of the sun.
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US Preparing Ebola Quarantine Center in Kenya: WSJ
The center would be for Americans “who would need to quickly get out of DRC and quarantine,” the newspaper quoted one administration official as saying.
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Four Teenagers Drown in England Since Sunday in Heatwave
The school-age children drowned over a long weekend including a public holiday on Monday as temperatures soared to reach record-breaking levels near London this week.
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Iran Partially Restores Internet Access After Months-long Shutdown
The shutdown left Iranians largely cut off from international networks, with only a domestic intranet working for daily tasks like shopping, ride-hailing and education.
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Senegal’s ousted PM Sonko elected National Assembly speaker
Sonko, the sole candidate for the position, received 132 votes, with no member voting against him and one abstaining, according to the session’s presiding member Ismael Diallo.
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Musk’s SpaceX Bonus Comes With Unique Condition: Colonize Mars
Musk’s bonus is contingent on SpaceX’s stock market value hitting targets ranging from $400 billion to $6 trillion — along with the company moving a million people to a planet 140 million miles (225 million…
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US Senate Republicans Set for Rare Rebuke of Trump Priorities
Republican Senator John Kennedy told reporters his party’s leaders were likely to drop the ballroom money that Trump wanted to be included in the bill, after it failed to win enough support and ran into…
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IMF Cuts France 2026 Growth Forecast to 0.7%
France is under pressure to reduce a budget deficit that stood at 5.1 percent of GDP last year — well above the three-percent limit set for members of the eurozone.
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Three Canadian Police Officers Arrested in Spain Over Sexual Assault
Of the two men arrested in Barcelona, one has been charged with sexual assault and bodily harm, while the other was released, the Catalan police spokesman said. He returned to Canada but remains under investigation.
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Nobel Winner Mukwege Warns of Predatory US Deal for DR Congo
A US-brokered peace deal in the DR Congo is more focused on plundering the country’s resources than offering security, Nobel Peace Prize-winning Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege
