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[ad_1] BRASILIA, Brazil — A former student armed with a semiautomatic pistol and wearing a bulletproof vest fatally shot three people and wounded 13 on Friday after barging into two schools in southeastern Brazil, authorities said. The shootings took place at a public school with elementary and middle school students …

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[ad_1] An earthquake shook Indonesia‘s main Java island Monday afternoon, killing at least 162 people, local officials said. Around 700 people were injured, National Disaster Mitigation Agency chief Suharyanto said. “Many were hurt because they were hit by collapsed buildings,” he added. The death toll reached 162 Monday night, local …

[ad_1] BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Hebe de Bonafini, who became a human rights campaigner when her two sons were arrested and disappeared under Argentina’s military dictatorship, died Sunday, her family and authorities reported. She was 93. The death was confirmed by her only surviving child, Alejandra, who expressed thanks for …

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[ad_1] MANILA, the Philippines — A powerful 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck the Philippine island of Luzon on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, badly damaging a hospital and buildings in a northern province and sending strong tremors through the capital, Manila. A hospital in Abra province was evacuated after the …

[ad_1] Two new studies provide more evidence that the coronavirus pandemic originated in a Wuhan, China market where live animals were sold — further bolstering the theory that the virus emerged in the wild rather than escaping from a Chinese lab. The research, published online Tuesday by the journal Science, …

[ad_1] David Trimble, a former Northern Ireland first minister who won the Nobel Peace Prize for playing a key role in helping end Northern Ireland’s decades of violence, has died, the Ulster Unionist Party said Monday. He was 77. The party said in a statement on behalf of the Trimble …

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[ad_1] WASHINGTON — Republicans and Democrats in Congress are rallying behind Speaker Nancy Pelosi by urging her to follow through on a potential visit to Taiwan even as President Joe Biden said the Pentagon believes such a trip is “not a good idea right now.” China has gone much further, …