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Highland Park Shooting Reveals Limits of Illinois’s Gun Restrictions July 7, 2022
Legislators and gun control advocates are asking how the 21-year-old suspect was able to buy several weapons despite alarming police encounters and relatively strict state laws.
Witnesses in Young Thug Case Have Been Threatened, Prosecutors Say July 6, 2022
Following a May indictment accusing the rapper and 27 others of gang-related crimes, defense lawyers must now withhold witnesses’ contact information from their clients.
How to Prepare for California’s Wildfire Season July 6, 2022
Tips for readying your home and packing your emergency bag.
‘Ghost Flights’? The Facts Behind Transporting Migrant Children June 24, 2022
Government flights carrying undocumented children from the border to federally licensed shelters around the country are being criticized by conservative politicians in an election year.
Yellowstone Flooding Is a Sign of What’s to Come for National Parks June 30, 2022
Record rainfall and mudslides forced closures just as tourism season ramped up. Virtually none of America’s national parks are untouched by extreme weather and climate change.
A Decade After DACA, a New Generation of Undocumented Students Rises June 16, 2022
A vast majority of undocumented teenagers are graduating high school this year without protection from deportation and the ability to legally work.
Photos of Flooding Damage in Yellowstone June 16, 2022
Flooding and mudslides from recent storms have collapsed bridges and washed away roads in the national park.
Southern Baptists, Battling Divisions, Elect Bart Barber as President June 15, 2022
The nation’s largest Protestant denomination, a bellwether for conservative Christianity, chose a rural Texas pastor and approved actions to address its sex abuse crisis.

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Teenager saves baby from shipwreck during Mediterranean crossing July 6, 2022
‘I went to help people,’ says Togolese boy, who was among 71 survivors rescued nine days after boat sank, killing at least 30The actions of a teenager from Togo have been lauded after video footage was published of him supporting a baby he saved from a shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea last week in which at least 30 people died.The 17-year-old, whose identi […]
Suspected Islamist attack frees hundreds of prisoners in Nigeria July 6, 2022
Inmates on the run after gunmen armed with explosives attack prison near capital, AbujaHundreds of prisoners, including scores of terrorists, were on the run in Nigeria after suspected Islamist militants attacked a prison near the capital, Abuja.Gunmen armed with explosives blasted into Kuje medium-security prison, on the outskirts of Abuja, at about 10pm on […]
Famine: what is it, where will it strike and how should the world respond? July 6, 2022
A toxic combination of climate emergency, conflict and Covid is pushing some of the poorest countries into an acute hunger crisisGlobal hunger toll soars by 150m as Covid and war make their markThe world is in the grip of an unprecedented hunger crisis. A toxic combination of climate crisis, conflict and Covid had already placed some of the poorest countries […]
Sierra Leone backs bill to legalise abortion and end colonial-era law July 6, 2022
Country hails ‘monumental step’ towards expanding reproductive rights at a time when the US has overturned themMinisters in Sierra Leone have taken a major step towards decriminalising abortion and overturning the country’s colonial-era law, in a move hailed by campaigners and women’s rights activists.President Julius Maada Bio said his cabinet had unanimous […]
Lean times for Ghana’s yam traders as cost of living crisis bites July 6, 2022
People are buying less, costs are up, and profits are dwindling for traders at Kaneshi market in Accra On a quiet stretch amid the sprawling buzz of Kaneshie market in Accra, a group of traders sheltering under canopies from the blazing sun sell yams stacked along the roadside.Rita Oboh, 32, has worked the spot, or one nearby, since she was six, following in […]
Zimbabwe to introduce gold coins as local currency tumbles July 5, 2022
Soaring inflation piling pressure on country already struggling with shortages and stirring memories of Mugabe chaosZimbabwe will start issuing gold coins as legal tender in late July, its central bank has said, as the country battles to control runaway inflation that has considerably weakened the local currency.The inflation rate more than doubled last mont […]
Venezuela Indigenous leader’s killing terrifies defenders of Amazon lands July 7, 2022
Virgilio Trujillo Arana, who led community defense from criminal groups and illegal mining, was gunned down in broad daylightVirgilio Trujillo Arana knew that he was risking his life by defending the Amazon lands on which his Indigenous Uwottuja community had lived for centuries.“Whatever happens, happens,” he said, in a video recorded before his death. “[Bu […]
Woman set on fire in Toronto bus attack dies from her injuries July 6, 2022
Woman in her 20s was assaulted by another passenger in a suspected hate crime last monthA Toronto woman who was set on fire last month on a public bus in a suspected hate crime has died of her injuries, police say.On 17 June, a woman in her 20s who was travelling to her job as a caregiver, was sitting on an idling bus in the city’s west end when she was assa […]

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Ukraine war: 21,000 alleged war crimes being investigated, prosecutor says July 7, 2022
Top prosecutor gives the new figure to the BBC, but admits many trials will be held in absentia.
Lithuania donates crowdfunded drone to Ukraine July 7, 2022
The drone was originally crowdfunded, but the manufacturer decided to donate it without cost.
Sri Lanka president asks Russia's Vladimir Putin for help to buy fuel July 7, 2022
The country says it is close to running out of petrol amid its worst economic crisis since 1948.
Highland Park shooting suspect considered second attack July 6, 2022
The 21-year-old suspect was able to purchase five guns despite several 'red flags' being raised.
Argentine ex-army officers jailed over 'Dirty War' crimes against humanity July 7, 2022
Nineteen people get long jail terms for crimes against humanity during the military rule in 1976-83.
Revelry and protests as Spanish bull festival returns July 6, 2022
The annual event in Spain's Pamplona was cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to coronavirus restrictions.
Georgia Guidestones: 'America's Stonehenge' demolished after blast July 7, 2022
The granite monument in the US state of Georgia was seen as satanic by some people.
Nigeria Kuje prison break: More than 400 missing from Abuja jail July 6, 2022
The Islamic State group says it carried out the attack in Abuja - dozens of jihadists escaped.

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