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London, UK
Reuters

Child income poverty rates in the United Kingdom were the highest among the world's richest countries, a report by UN children's agency UNICEF said, ranking bottom of the table for changes in those rates in the past decade. 

The UNICEF report, published on Wednesday, looked at relatively well-off

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Kyiv, Ukraine
Reuters

Crowds flocked to one of Kyiv's most beloved squares on Wednesday to see the Ukraine's main Christmas tree lit up to mark Saint Nicholas Day according to a new calendar celebrating Christmas on 25th December.

With their military locked in the 21-month-old war against

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Tensions between neighbours Venezuela and Guyana have ratcheted up in recent weeks over a long-running territorial dispute. 

At issue is a 160,000-square-kilometre border territory around the Esequibo River, which is mostly jungle, and an offshore area where massive discoveries of oil and gas have been

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Washington DC, US
AP

A new guide from the US Department of Homeland Security released Wednesday aims to help churches, synagogues, mosques and other houses of worship protect themselves at a time of heightened tensions in faith-based communities across the country.

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Lima, Peru
Reuters

Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, who was serving a 25-year prison term for human rights abuses during his decade-long rule in the 1990s, was released on Wednesday evening after a court restored a contentious 2017 pardon.

The country's highest court on Tuesday ruled in

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Washington DC, US
Reuters

An emergency spending bill to provide billions of dollars in new security assistance for Ukraine and Israel was blocked in the US Senate on Wednesday as Republicans pressed their demands for tougher measures to control immigration at the US border with Mexico.

The

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Sydney, Australia
Reuters

Australia has passed new laws allowing former immigration detainees to be locked up again if they pose any risk of committing serious offences after they were released in a landmark ruling by the country's top court.

Under the new laws passed by the Parliament

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London, UK
Reuters

Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley used a speech in London on Wednesday to call for a global conversation on reparations for countries that saw their people enslaved, sometimes for centuries, under colonial rule.

"The conspiracy of silence has diminished the horror of what our

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London, UK
Reuters

British former Prime Minister Boris Johnson gave his most explicit apology for his handling of the coronavirus crisis on Wednesday, saying his government had been too complacent and "vastly underestimated" the risks posed by the virus.

In an appearance before an official inquiry into

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Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Reuters

Countries at the COP28 climate talks need to stop posturing, aim high and agree on a way to end the "fossil fuel era as we know it", UN climate chief Simon Stiell said on Wednesday, as tension over the future of coal,

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A shooting on the main campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, on Wednesday left at least three people dead before the bloodshed ended with the suspect's own death, authorities said.

The Las Vegas Police Department said in written statement on social

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