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    Rains, mudslides kill 29 in southern Brazil's 'worst disaster'

    Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday visited the country's south where floods and mudslides caused by torrential rains have killed 29 people, with the toll expected to rise."I came here to help people, to get them out of the flooding because it is very dangerous.

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    University Of Minnesota Reaches Initial Agreement With Pro-Palestine Demonstrators

    At least two other universities in the U.S. have reached deals with students who have set up encampments to protest Israel's attacks on Gaza.

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    The House Passed A Bill To Fight Antisemitism. Here’s Why Critics Call It Misleading.

    The bill expanding antisemitism's definition to include criticism of Israel would only crack down on free speech rights of antiwar student protesters, critics say.

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    NYPD Officer Fired Gun Inside Columbia’s Hamilton Hall, Manhattan DA Confirms

    The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office told THE CITY that their police accountability unit is reviewing the shooting that happened as police cleared out campus protesters.

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  • BusinessReuters

    Stablecoin Tether steps up monitoring in bid to combat illicit finance

    The world's largest stablecoin, Tether, has stepped up monitoring of how its tokens are used in broader crypto markets and payments in a bid to combat illicit finance, Tether said in a statement on Thursday. Tether, a cryptocurrency pegged to the U.S. dollar, and blockchain analytics company Chainalysis have launched new tools to identify transactions associated with sanctioned entities and analyse the activity of major holders of the token, Tether said. Last month, Reuters reported that Venez

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    UNESCO awards press prize to Palestinian journalists in Gaza

    UNESCO on Thursday awarded its world press freedom prize to all Palestinian journalists covering the war in Gaza, where Israel has been battling Hamas for more than six months.According to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), at least 97 members of the press have been killed since the war broke out in October, 92 of whom were Palestinians.

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  • PoliticsAFP News

    After breaking silence, Biden faces balancing act on Gaza demos

    Joe Biden broke his silence Thursday on the student protests against Israel's war with Hamas but the US president faces a difficult balancing act to avoid hurting his reelection chances against Donald Trump.But the balancing act is not easy for Biden.

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