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Slain Baton Rouge police officer Montrell Jackson's emotional Facebook post
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Montrell Jackson felt "physically and emotionally" beaten by the unrest in his home town.
Baton Rouge shooter identified as Gavin Long
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The gunman who killed three police officers and wounded three others in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has been identified as an American citizen named Gavin Long, a source with direct knowledge of the investigation told Reuters.
Republican National Convention 2016 starts with civil protests
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A divided Republican Party meets to nominate controversial presidential candidate Donald Trump.
'I thought there was going to be a bomb ... there were dead people everywhere'
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An Australian couple feared the Bastille Day attack truck, which halted in front of their hotel, would be a bomb.
Twitter, Facebook move quickly to stem celebrations of Nice attack
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Twitter moved swiftly to remove posts from Islamic extremists glorifying a truck attack in Nice, France, watchdog groups have said, in a rare round of praise for a platform that has often struggled to contain violent propaganda.
Hungry Venezuelans flock across border to Colombia for supplies
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Desperate Venezuelans took advantage of a temporary opening of the Colombian border to buy food and medicine unavailable in their collapsing economy.
Civil start to protests but Cleveland braces for the worst
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The barricades were up and the police were ready, but the rowdy protests expected to descend this week on Cleveland for the Republican National Convention were contained to small pockets of unrest amid largely peaceful demonstrations across the city.
Turkey coup: police ordered to shoot down helicopters: reports
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Police troops in Istanbul, Turkey have been ordered to down helicopters, according to news alerts on social media.
The crazy gun laws at the Republican Party convention
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Take a slingshot to the Republican Party convention and you'll likely go for a drive in a paddy wagon; take your semi-automatic AR-15 gun in there – and that's cool.
Rape suspect barricaded in Baltimore Burger King with hostages
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A man wanted in connection with a rape led police in Baltimore on a chase Sunday on afternoon that ended with a gunman rushing into a Burger King and taking four hostages, including a child, a department spokesman said.
French PM says Nice truck driver was radicalised quickly
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Police arrested a man and a woman in the French city of Nice on Sunday morning in connection with the truck attack that killed at least 84 people celebrating Bastille Day, a judiciary source said.
Failed Turkey coup deepens conundrum of Recep Tayyip Erdogan's power
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And so another cot-case nation is born. Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan already has begun consolidating in the wake of Friday's failed coup, with a vengeful purge of the military and the judiciary to help drive home a ruthless bid to consolidate virtually all power in his strongman presidency.
'The whole night felt like doomsday'
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As dawn broke on Saturday, the citizens of Turkey emerged sleep-deprived and angst-ridden after a night of violence that felt more like life in war-stricken neighbors like Syria or Iraq.
Qandeel Baloch's brother admits to 'honour killing' of Pakistani social media star sister
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The brother of Qandeel Baloch, whose risqué social media posts both titillated and appalled conservative Pakistan, on Sunday admitted to strangling her in a crime that reignited debate about so-called "honour killings" in the South Asian nation.
Nice killer Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel 'only started going to mosque this April'
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The terrorist behind the Bastille Day atrocity was radicalised in a matter of weeks, French officials indicated on Saturday after the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the lorry rampage and described him as a "soldier of Islam".
Earthquake hits Tokyo and eastern Japan
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An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 struck eastern Japan on Sunday and shook buildings in Tokyo, officials and witnesses said, but there was no danger of a tsunami and no immediate report of injuries or major damage.