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Image for Ireland to begin excavation of mass grave at Church-run Mother and Baby home
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Ireland to begin excavation of mass grave at Church-run Mother and Baby home

By Clodagh Kilcoyne TUAM, Ireland (Reuters) -A team of forensic archaeologists and crime scene exper...

7th July, 2025

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Her store in eastern Ukraine destroyed for third time, shop owner vows to rebuild

DONETSK, RUSSIAN-CONTROLLED UKRAINE (Reuters) -Tamara Pozdnyakova woke up on June 30 in her apartmen...

7th July, 2025

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UN council votes to keep researching abuses for LGBT people despite US U-turn

By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -The U.N. Human Rights Council voted on Monday to renew the mandate o...

7th July, 2025

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From Karachi to Gaza: Pakistani startup ships prosthetics to child war survivors

By Ariba Shahid KARACHI (Reuters) -As soon as eight-year-old Sidra Al Bordeeni returned from the cli...

7th July, 2025

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Pope Leo takes first action to address abuse by Catholic clergy

By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Leo on Saturday appointed a French archbishop as the...

5th July, 2025

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Dictator Franco's head replica rolls on football pitch in Spanish art festival

MOIA, Spain (Reuters) -Spanish artist Eugenio Merino and a U.S. art collective used a lifelike repli...

4th July, 2025

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Civil society leaves UN development summit feeling unheard

By David Latona SEVILLE, Spain (Reuters) -When over 1,000 civil society representatives flocked to S...

4th July, 2025

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'Many lifetimes of commitment': Richard Gere vows to keep fighting for Tibetan cause

By Krishna N. Das DHARAMSHALA, India (Reuters) -As the chair of the International Campaign for Tibet...

3rd July, 2025

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Starmer wins vote on UK welfare reform but suffers damaging rebellion

By Andrew MacAskill and Elizabeth Piper LONDON (Reuters) -British lawmakers gave their initial appro...

1st July, 2025

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UK's watered down welfare reforms will push 150,000 into poverty, modelling shows

By Sarah Young LONDON (Reuters) -New British welfare reforms are still expected to push 150,000 peop...

30th June, 2025

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Canada, Europeans and Brazil, not US, issue statement backing LGBT rights

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The foreign ministries of Canada, Australia, Brazil and a host of European cou...

29th June, 2025

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Huge crowds pack Budapest as banned Pride swells into anti-Orban rally

By Anita Komuves BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Tens of thousands of LGBTQ+ rights supporters are expected to a...

28th June, 2025