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Police ‘wrong’ not to breach door during Texas shooting

State’s Public Safety Dept director, however, says cops initially believed no survivors in classroom

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Mexico energy regulator fines Spanish firm Iberdrola US$467 mil

Energy Regulatory Commission says company was improperly selling electricity to third parties, violating domestic ‘self-supply’ law

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UN Security Council members fail to agree on Myanmar text

China, UK blame each other for breakdown in negotiations aimed towards peace in Southeast Asian country

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Canada’s top court strikes down life without parole for mass murderers

Judiciary says such a sentence is degrading, incompatible with human dignity as it eliminates any possibility of reintegration into society

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‘Evil’ like Texas massacre a reason to arm, not disarm: Trump

Ex-US president says efforts at gun control ‘grotesque’, rejects calls for tightening policies

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Taliban says UN’s concerns on Afghan women’s rights ‘unfounded’

The Security Council criticises Taliban for limiting girls’ and women’s access to education, govt jobs, freedom of movement

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Australia grants asylum-seeking family ‘bridging visas’

Govt allows Sri Lankan natives to stay lawfully in country while seeking refugee status

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Putin ready to help overcome food crisis if West lifts sanctions

Moscow is ready to contribute through export of grain, fertiliser

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Fiji dismisses plea to stop US seizing Russian superyacht

Registered owners denies RM1.3 bil yacht linked to sanctioned oligarch Suleiman Kerimov

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Earthquake hits eastern Indonesia, no tsunami warnings

The 6.5 magnitude quake strikes off eastern province of Maluku today at 9.36am today

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Palestinian probe finds journalist ‘murdered’ by Israeli soldier

Al Jazeera to submit Shireen Abu Akleh’s case to International Criminal Court

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Japan to allow mass tourism, but only in tour groups

Move ends two-year pandemic closure

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EU working on joint purchase of monkeypox vaccines

Rollout will be limited to ‘very specific cases’ as risk not comparable to Covid-19