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Violent clashes over government jobs quota system leave scores injured in Bangladesh

Associated Press DHAKA, Banglades (AP) — Police fired tear gas and charged with batons during violent clashes between a pro-government student body and student protesters overnight, leaving dozens injured at a public university outside Bangladesh’s capital, authorities and students said Tuesday. The violence spread early Tuesday at Jahangir Nagar University in Savar, outside Dhaka, where

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Far-right groups that block aid to Gaza receive tax-deductible donations from US and Israel

JERUSALEM (AP) — Under American pressure, Israel has pledged to deliver large quantities of humanitarian aid into the war-ravaged Gaza Strip. But at the same time, the U.S. and Israel have allowed tax-deductible donations to far-right groups that have blocked that aid from being delivered. The Associated Press and the Israeli investigative site Shomrim have

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Donald Trump is feted by his former rivals in a show of Republican unity after rally shooting

Associated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — Donald Trump was celebrated Tuesday at the Republican National Convention by former rivals who just months ago leveled harsh critiques about him, a show of unity that contrasts with the divisions increasingly ripping through the Democratic Party. Nikki Haley, the former U.N. ambassador who was Trump’s final challenger in the

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Tribunal de Costa Rica ordena arresto provisional con fines de extradición a Chile a presunto implicado en secuestro y homicidio de exmilitar venezolano

Belén Liotti (CNN Español) — Una resolución emitida por el Tribunal Penal del I Circuito Judicial de San José, la capital de Costa Rica, ordenó este lunes el arresto con fines de extradición a Chile de Mikel Villegas, quien contaba con una alerta roja internacional por su presunta participación en el secuestro y homicidio del

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Ramón Jesurún, presidente de la Federación Colombiana de Fútbol, fue uno de los detenidos en la final de la Copa América

Belén Liotti (CNN) — El presidente de la Federación Colombiana de Fútbol, ​​Ramón Jesurún, fue arrestado en el Hard Rock Stadium de Miami Gardens, Florida, después de que Argentina venciera a Colombia en la final de la Copa América este domingo. Jesurún, quien también es vicepresidente del organizador del torneo, la Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol

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NY AG, NYCLU sue county for again banning transgender girls and women from teams that match their gender identity

By Nic F. Anderson, CNN (CNN) — New York’s attorney general and the local affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union are both separately suing a New York county after it again banned transgender women from playing on female sports teams. The new legislation affecting Nassau County facilities takes the place of an executive order

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North Korean fashion, drums, and jubilation: Here’s how South Koreans celebrated the first-ever Defectors’ Day

By Jessie Yeung, Mike Valerio and Yoonjung Seo, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — In the shadow of what looks like Seoul’s colossal chrome space station, Dongdaemun Design Plaza, hundreds of defectors from North Korea gathered for lively celebrations on Sunday marking the first nationwide North Korean Defectors’ Day. The inaugural event, declared by the

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