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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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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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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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