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Following two weeks of staging anti-government protest over rising fuel and food prices across Ecuador, Indigenous organizations will end an 18-day strike after reaching an agreement with the government about their demands on Thursday June 30.
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Mohammed Zubair, a Muslim Indian journalist and a prominent critic of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi, has been arrested on charges of insulting religious sentiments and promoting enmity between religious groups.
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Russia struck a busy shopping mall in the central Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk with a missile on Monday June 27, killing at least 18 people and injuring about 60 others, Ukrainian authorities said.
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Francia Márquez, a former housekeeper and an environmental activist lawyer, has been elected as Colombia’s first Black woman vice president.
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In a historic victory, Gustavo Petro, a former rebel fighter, has been elected as Colombia’s first leftist president on Sunday June 19.
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Theary Seng, a Cambodian-American lawyer, has been sentenced to six years in prison for conspiring against the government.
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The Myanmar military has been setting fire to hundreds villages in the north of the country to crush the resistance, according to local reports.
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Young people in China are inadvertently learning about the Tiananmen Square Massacre after an influencer’s live stream was cut off after it showed a tank-shaped ice cream.
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Hundreds of people in Taiwan gathered at in Taipei on June 4 to commemorate the 33rd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing, China, as the Hong Kong vigil was banned once again.
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Australia’s new government was sworn into office on Wednesday June 1, with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese appointing a record number of women.
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced a bill that would place a national freeze on handgun ownership across Canada.
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The Church of Scotland has voted to allow its clergy to officiate same-sex marriages for the first time.