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Argentina fans celebrate Copa America triumph outside Maracana

Argentines celebrate outside the Maracana Stadium after their national football team beat hosts Brazil 1-0 in the final of the Copa America. "I'm happy like never before in my life," says one Argentina supporter

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Anti-Taliban militia deploy in Herat after insurgents seize districts

Anti-Taliban militia deploy in the western Afghan city of Herat after veteran warlord and former mujahideen Ismail Khan, whose fighters helped US forces topple the Taliban in 2001, vowed to take up arms again as the insurgents closed in on the stronghold

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New York's gladiators fight in Central Park

Once a month, a bucolic corner of New York's Central Park becomes an impromptu battlefield as combatants in full medieval armor vie before picnickers and passersby, in a demonstration of brute strength and swordsmanship

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Pope makes first public appearance since surgery

Pope Francis on Sunday made his first public appearance since surgery last week, greeting well-wishers as he stood on a hospital balcony

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Lithuania border guards erect Belarus border fence

Members of Lithuania's border guard have begun installing a barbed wire fence on the Lithuanian side of the border with Belarus, according to footage released by the Lithuanian State Border Guard Service

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Members of the Baptist community comfort families of 121 students kidnapped in Nigeria

Dozens of members of the Baptist community gathered in Damishi on Friday to comfort and support the families of the more than 120 students kidnapped from a school earlier this week

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North Ireland loyalists light bonfires at start of marching season

To mark the start of Northern Ireland's annual marching season, loyalist groups set alight huge bonfires across the province on Friday evening

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Survivor recalls horrors of Srebrenica

Through tears and in between fraught silences, Devla Ajsic refuses to remain quiet any longer, as she walks around the eery former Dutch U.N. compound where she was sexually abused over 20 years ago

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3D giant cat billboard turning heads in Tokyo

Tokyo has a new icon - a 3D cat billboard.

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Spain hosts European Balloon Festival

The annual European Balloon Festival is in full swing in Catalonia. The event is usually the biggest gathering of hot air balloons in Spain, but this year due to Covid, it has been scaled back with fewer participants and a shorter format.

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Pakistan opens first state-run school for transgender people

Pakistan has opened its first government-funded school for transgender women, who are often bullied out of mainstream education as children in the deeply conservative nation.

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Mount Etna in Sicily has roared back into spectacular volcanic action

According to the Catania Institute for Geophysics and Volcanology, it also caused ash and debris to fall on some villages located on the slopes of the volcano.

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Activists protest Hungary's discriminatory LGBT law

Activists protest Hungary's discriminatory LGBT law

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Greenpeace gives biggest S. Korean firms bottom grades in climate survey

Greenpeace gives biggest S. Korean firms bottom grades in climate survey

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Italian mayors march in Rome demanding respect

Italian mayors march in Rome demanding respect

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Kenya protesters clash with police at lockdown demo

Kenya protesters clash with police at lockdown demo

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Egypt releases ship that blocked Suez Canal

Egypt releases ship that blocked Suez Canal

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Rescue operation to help 12 whales stranded in east China

Rescue operation to help 12 whales stranded in east China

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Jury, crews arrive on the red carpet as Cannes Film Festival opens

Jury, crews arrive on the red carpet as Cannes Film Festival opens

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Spain protest against homophobia after gay man murdered

Spain protest against homophobia after gay man murdered