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Africa
Nigeria police find bodies of 41 people suspected killed by vigilantes
Nigeria police found the bodies of 41 men with their throats cut in Zamfara state in an area notorious as a hideout for criminal gangs
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Middle East
Iraqi forces launch major operation against ISIS over civilian executions
Iraqi forces launched a major operation against remnants of Islamic State following public anger over the jihadists' murder of a group of abducted civilians.
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Middle East
Iraq urges repatriation of children of ISIS fighters
Iraq has called for the home countries of foreign ISIS fighters held in its jails to repatriate hundreds of children of the captured militants
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Peace
UN peacekeeping budget of $6.7 billion agreed
U.N. member countries on Sunday, July 1 agreed to a peacekeeping budget of just under $6.7 billion, according to diplomatic sources.
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Middle East
UAE pauses assault on Yemen’s Hodeidah as UN pushes for Houthi withdrawal
The UAE announced it halted the offensive it is backing against Houthi rebels in Yemen's port city of Hodeidah, to give a chance to UN efforts
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Asia Pacific
Afghanistan: Ghani orders resumption of operations against the Taliban
Afghan security forces resumed operations after President Ashraf Ghani declared an end to the unilateral ceasefire with the Taliban
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Africa
UN Security Council extends Mali peacekeeping mission
The UN Security Council unanimously renewed its peacekeeping mission in Mali for a year, urging the country to make progress toward peace
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Africa
South Sudan’s Kiir and Machar agree ‘permanent’ ceasefire
South Sudan President Salva Kiir and arch-foe Riek Machar agreed to a "permanent" ceasefire to the civil war, to take effect within 72 hours
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Africa
Weekend attacks in central Nigeria kill more than 200, governor says
More than 200 people were killed in violence against farming communities in central Nigeria's Plateau state, according to the governor
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Africa
UN peacekeeper killed in South Sudan aid convoy ambush
A Bangladeshi peacekeeper in South Sudan was killed on Tuesday, June 26 when an aid convoy was ambushed in the west of the country, the United Nations mission said
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