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Michel looks through some camouflage netting near his home in Kherson.

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  • Europe

Ukraine's troops long planned their move on Russian forces. Then came the flood

Soldiers spent months making clandestine trips across Ukraine's Dnipro River to plan the counteroffensive. Instead of facing off against Russian forces, this unit found itself fighting floodwaters.

June 22, 2023
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  • Joanna Kakissis,
  • Polina Lytvynova,
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Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro speaks to the press as he leaves the Federal Senate in Brasília on June 21.

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  • World

Bolsonaro goes on trial over electoral fraud claims that could bar him from elections

Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro goes on trial Thursday, facing charges that he spread false information about Brazil's election system. He's also facing allegations that he abused his power.

June 22, 2023
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By:
  • Carrie Kahn
In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, firefighters work at the site of an explosion at a restaurant in Yinchuan, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in the early hours of Wednesday, June 21, 2023.

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  • Asia

Cooking gas explosion kills 31 people at a barbecue restaurant in northwestern China

The blast tore through the restaurant Wednesday night on a busy street in Yinchuan, the capital of the traditionally Muslim Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

June 22, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Where to from here?

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  • Asia

Blinken visited China. Then Biden called Xi a dictator. So what comes next?

Secretary of State Antony Blinken's recent visit to China was considered a success by government officials. In such a complicated relationship, what does that even look like?

June 21, 2023
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By:
  • Manuela López Restrepo
Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister Mykhailo Federov speaks to drone makers and drone pilot trainers at an event south of Kyiv on June 15. Federov leads the Army of Drones project that has allowed Ukraine to make wide use of drones, for reconnaissance and attacks, offsetting the huge advantage Russia has with its traditional air force.

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  • Europe

How Ukraine created an 'Army of Drones' to take on Russia

We hear a lot about the big-ticket weapons the West is shipping to Ukraine. But Ukraine is also fighting effectively with a weapon it can buy off-the-shelf and is small enough to hold in one hand.

June 21, 2023
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By:
  • Greg Myre
Lt. Frank J. Crawford of Detroit, Michigan, as the Regimental plans and training officer, is giving his men instructions in combat maneuvers.

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  • World

This WWII battle wasn't against Nazis. It was between Black and white GIs in England

It's the 80th anniversary of a little-known battle — by Black U.S. soldiers against segregation in the military. They were convicted of mutiny. Villagers in England want them exonerated.

June 21, 2023
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By:
  • Lauren Frayer and
  • Fatima Al-Kassab
Firemen use a water canon as they fight a blaze following an explosion on Wednesday in Paris.

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  • Europe

Paris police look for the cause of an explosion and fire that injured 24 people

The explosion rocked a building, igniting a fire that sent smoke soaring over monuments and prompting an evacuation. Police were investigating suspicions that a gas leak caused the blast.

June 21, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Abdullah Saif Ahmed Numan and his grandson, Mohammad, stand in the building where they live in Al Dawah neighborhood of Taiz, Yemen. The neighborhood is on the front line of a divided city in Yemen's civil war.

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  • World

A front-line city in Yemen is desperate for change after nearly a decade of civil war

Nearly a decade of civil war has destroyed millions of Yemeni lives, but perhaps nowhere has it been felt more than in the neighborhoods in Taiz that are closest to the fighting.

June 21, 2023
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By:
  • Claire Harbage and
  • Fatma Tanis
Kassem Taher Saleh, a Green Party member of parliament, says Germany's so-called "boiler ban" bill is poorly understood due to the German media's portrayal of the bill as one that would bankrupt middle class homeowners. Some German homeowners are scared that as part of their country's commitments to reducing carbon emissions, they'll now have to make costly changes to their home heating systems.

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  • World

Germany's Green Party wants people to use heat pumps to save energy. Some are balking

Some German homeowners are worried they'll have to foot the bill for their country's climate targets by replacing their gas boilers with cleaner — but more expensive — heat pumps.

June 21, 2023
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By:
  • Rob Schmitz
An undated photo shows a tourist submersible belonging to OceanGate descending into the ocean. Search and rescue operations for one of the company's submersibles, Titan, are continuing Wednesday.

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  • National

Missing submersible: Rescuers race to find Titan after detecting underwater noises

The U.S. Coast Guard said that a surveillance plane detected "underwater noises" close to where the Titan lost contact with its control room. Experts say the sub's oxygen may run out on Thursday.

June 21, 2023
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By:
  • Emily Olson and
  • Willem Marx
Clergy members of the Church of England are asking for a 9.5% pay hike that would begin in April 2024. Here, a view inside Westminster Abbey in London on April 12 ahead of King Charles III's coronation.

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  • World

Church of England clergy asks for a pay raise for the first time in history

The United Kingdom has been struggling with a cost-of-living crisis since 2021. Clergy members are asking for a 9.5% pay hike that would begin in April 2024.

June 21, 2023
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By:
  • Joe Hernandez
A group of men wait at the turnstiles and speak with survivors, mostly from Pakistan, of a deadly migrant boat sinking at a migrant camp in Malakasa north of Athens, on Monday, June 19, 2023.

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  • Europe

Greek court orders smuggling suspects held pending trial over migrant ship disaster

The Egyptian suspects face charges that include participation in a criminal organization, manslaughter and causing a shipwreck.

June 21, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Relatives of inmates wait in distress outside the entrance to the women's prison in Tamara, on the outskirts of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Tuesday, June 20, 2023.

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  • Latin America

Dozens of women die in a grisly riot in Honduran prison the president blames on gangs

Twenty-six of the 41 known victims were burned to death and the remainder shot or stabbed at the prison in Tamara, about 30 miles northwest of the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, police said.

June 20, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Israeli police stand next to the body of a Palestinian gunman Tuesday at the scene of a shooting attack near the West Bank Israeli settlement of Eli.

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  • Middle East

A Palestinian attacker kills at least 4 people at a West Bank gas station

A surge in violence this year has killed 128 Palestinians and 24 people on the Israeli side so far, according to a tally by The Associated Press.

June 20, 2023
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By:
  • The Associated Press
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Britain's Foreign Secretary James Cleverly attend an event at the Ukrainian Welcome Center at the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral, in London, on June 20, 2023

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  • World

From Beijing to London, Blinken pushes for Ukraine peace deal and recovery

America's top diplomat heads from China to the U.K. where Ukraine's post-war recovery tops the agenda

June 20, 2023
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  • Fatima Al-Kassab
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