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Self-proclaimed ‘village volunteers’ are armed with weapons sourced from the black market and looted from police armouries.

“The US Commerce Department has played booster and concierge to the firearm industry, even as America’s mass shootings horrify the world and gun-crime rates rise in many of the importing countries.”...

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"Reported that a convoy of around 11 Bullet Proof vehicles of Manipur State Commandos including Arambai Tenggol try to forcibly enter and attack a tribal Kuki-Zo border town Moreh. The convoy is currently halted near Tengnoupal district HQ. by women protestors....

Fascism is still on the rise:...

Al-Bab, Syria – In a small workshop where the scent of wood and sound of music blend, Hassan Hamza works to make one of the most important instruments in Arabic music....

Russian forces pounded a key village that Ukraine claimed to have recaptured in its grinding counteroffensive in the country’s southeast, while Moscow accused Kyiv of firing missiles at southern Russia and wounding 20 people....

This is a staggering story. This jobsworth closed the doors on her because she forgot her bus pass the week before. Despite knowing that she definitely has a bus pass because all pensioners in the UK get one. Just a total loss of humanity.

MEXICO CITY, July 28 (Reuters) - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday pushed back against estimates made this week about the strength of Mexican drug cartels by the top U.S. counter-narcotics official, saying the United States lacked “good information.”...

A court in Vietnam has jailed 54 people, including several high-ranking officials and a former minister, in one of the country’s largest ever bribery and corruption cases....

The wreckage of an ancient Roman ship from more than 2,000 years ago has been found off the coast of Italy....

Sao Paulo, Brazil – Stella Li stood in front of a packed stage, banging a brightly decorated drum to a samba-reggae rhythm....

July 28 (Reuters) - Russian missiles hit a residential complex and a nearby building of Ukraine’s security service in the central city of Dnipro on Thursday, officials said, injuring nine people and causing widespread damage....

France and Spain grew at a sustained pace on the back of stronger exports and tourism while Germany, the euro zone’s biggest country, remained the worst-performing major economy in the bloc....

Chefchaouen, Morocco – On the steps of the Spanish Mosque, tourists and locals are smoking kif, a mixture of cannabis and tobacco, while admiring the view of Morocco’s famous “Blue City” in the northern region of the Rif....

Europe has seen an increasing trend of far-right parties surging in popularity and conservative parties rising to power. Why has Spain bucked this trend?...

Google’s earthquake warning system failed to get to many Turkish residents before February’s deadly tremor, a BBC Newsnight investigation has found....

Spacey, who was also celebrating his 64th birthday on Wednesday, began to cry and mouthed “thank you” to the nine men and three women jurors, before wiping away tears with a tissue....

Hilariously it wasn’t easy finding a source that wasn’t bias or factually off.

Central troops struggle to prevent escalation amid outrage over sexual assault video