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Famed climber Nirmal Purja, nine others, die in avalanche in Pakistan, hiking company says
KATHMANDU, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Famed climber Nirmal Purja, who set a record for the fastest ascent of the world's 14 highest mountain, died in an avalanche on the world's 12th highest peak in Pakistan, his company said on Saturday.
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Wildfires spread across Greece, conditions worsen in France and Spain
ATHENS/ CARCES, France Aug 1 (Reuters) - Wildfires fanned by gale-force winds burned across multiple areas of Greece on Saturday, forcing residents to flee as conditions worsened again in parts of Spain and France.
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Spain installs floating barrier in Ceuta after deadly migrant rush
CEUTA, Spain, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Spain said migrant crossings into its North African enclave of Ceuta stopped overnight, as police began installing a 500-metre (1,640-foot) floating barrier on Saturday off its border with Morocco following a mass rush that killed at least 67 people.
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'Le camping', an egalitarian symbol of French summers, faces a fiery future
BISCARROSSE, France, Aug 1 (Reuters) - The order to evacuate came around 8.30 p.m. — just as families were sitting down to dinner. Wildfire flames were bearing down on a campsite in southwest France, and police told manager Hadrien Folliot he had little time to remove roughly 1,200 holidaymakers.
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Thousands in Amsterdam for boisterous WorldPride in shadow of Berlin attack
AMSTERDAM, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of revellers lined Amsterdam's canals on Saturday for the flagship event of WorldPride, resulting in a boisterous LGBT celebration and protest that organisers and participants said was particularly urgent after last week's deadly attack on Berlin's Pride.
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India's Modi says punishing student protesters will not resolve situation
MUMBAI, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he wanted to forgive students who hurled expletives at him during protests last month, saying that punishing them and forcing them to appear repeatedly in court would not help resolve the situation.
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US to make visa bond program permanent for people from dozens of countries
WASHINGTON, July 31 (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department will make permanent a visa bond program that could require applicants from 50 countries, mostly from Africa, to post bonds of up to $20,000 when seeking U.S. visas, according to a federal notice posted online on Friday.
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Yemen's Houthis deny plans to impose fees on ships sailing through Red Sea
Aug 1 (Reuters) - Yemen's Houthi-run maritime coordination body denied on Saturday that it planned to impose fees on commercial ships transiting the Bab el-Mandeb strait, saying no such decision had been taken and that passage through the strategic waterway remained free.
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Russia pounds Kyiv, kills 10 as Ukraine appeals for Patriot interceptors
KYIV, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Russia pounded Kyiv and the region in a heavy ballistic missile attack early on Saturday, killing 10 people, as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned that Ukraine had run out of interceptor missiles for its U.S. Patriot air defence systems.
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Police exchange fire with suspected drug traffickers at Brazil's Sao Paulo airport
RIO DE JANEIRO, July 31 (Xinhua) -- Brazil's Federal Police officers engaged in a shootout with suspected armed drug traffickers Friday at Guarulhos International Airport in Sao Paulo after the suspects tried to smuggle a massive shipment of cocaine onto a Europe-bound aircraft.
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U.S. stocks end higher
NEW YORK, July 31 (Xinhua) -- U.S. stocks ended higher on Friday as a surge in U.S. Treasury yields and mixed post-earnings performance of technology heavyweights failed to dampen market sentiment.
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Magnitude 4.7 quake strikes near Italy's Naples, causing outages and damage
NAPLES, Italy, July 31 (Reuters) - A magnitude 4.7 earthquake struck the Campi Flegrei area near the southern Italian city of Naples on Friday, causing power outages, disrupting train and metro services and damaging some buildings, authorities said.
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FIFA has scrapped $20 billion World Cup sell-off plan, New York Post reports
July 31 (Reuters) - FIFA's plan to sell a piece of its business empire to outside investors has collapsed following an open revolt by soccer officials worldwide and a major rift among top FIFA executives, the New York Post reported on Friday.
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Canada's GDP grows 0.3 pct in May
OTTAWA, July 31 (Xinhua) -- Canada's real gross domestic product (GDP) grew 0.3 percent in May, rising for a second consecutive month, as both goods-producing and services-producing industries expanded in the month, Statistics Canada said Friday.
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Thousands take to Kyiv's main street, firm on calls for defence minister's return
KYIV, July 31 (Reuters) - Several thousand Ukrainians rallied through central Kyiv on Friday, signalling to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that opposition to his decision to oust Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, widely credited with driving military innovation during Ukraine's war with Russia, remains strong.
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Trump's powerful but unofficial Venezuela adviser leaves his role
July 31 - An unofficial adviser to the Trump administration who has played a leading role in shaping U.S. Venezuela policy and multimillion-dollar deals to exploit the OPEC state's vast oil resources has told Reuters he is no longer overseeing the portfolio.
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Italy suspends Schengen regime with Spain to protect national security: PM
ROME, July 31 (Xinhua) -- Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Friday evening that the government had decided to temporarily suspend the Schengen free-movement regime for maritime and air links with Spain and reintroduce border checks.
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Kyrgyzstan receives about 290 mln USD in remittances in May
BISHKEK, July 31 (Xinhua) -- Remittances received by Kyrgyzstan in May totaled 287.9 million U.S. dollars, according to the National Bank of Kyrgyzstan.
