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• US citizens in Belarus told to ‘depart immediately’

  21-08-2023 23:42 via foxnews.com
  
  The U.S. Embassy in Belarus issued an alert Monday for all American citizens in the country to leave immediately and warned against traveling there.  The warning comes after Lithuania closed two of its major border crossings with Belarus over concerns about the Russian mercenary group Wagner that has established operations in the country.  The governments of Lithuania, Latvia, and Poland said further closures of border crossings with Belarus are possible.  The U.S. State Departmen
  
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• Jasprit Bumrah: Why the bowler is so important for the Indian cricket team

  21-08-2023 22:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The bowler's return to cricket after injury bodes well for the Indian side at the Asia and World Cups.
  
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• Women's World Cup: Spain's jubilant champions arrive in Madrid

  21-08-2023 22:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Spanish football team celebrate their win as they land at Madrid airport.
  
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• Iraqi oil minister visits Ankara to address energy issues, including resumption of oil exports

  21-08-2023 22:27 via foxnews.com
  
  Iraq's oil minister Hayan Abdel-Ghani arrived in the Turkish capital Ankara to discuss several issues including the resumption of oil exports through the Ceyhan oil terminal, a source in the minister's office told Reuters on Monday. Iraqi oil minister will meet his Turkish counterpart to discuss energy issues, on top of which is the resumption of Iraq's northern oil exports via Turkey's Ceyhan port, said an oil official. Turkey halted Iraq's 450,000 barrels per day (bpd) of exports through the n
  
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• Suspected Palestinian assailant kills Israeli woman, sparks renewed violence in West Bank

  21-08-2023 22:15 via foxnews.com
  
  A suspected Palestinian attacker killed an Israeli woman and seriously wounded a man in the south of the occupied West Bank on Monday, Israeli authorities said, as violence flared in the restive territory two days after a shooting that killed two Israelis. Later Monday, eight Palestinians were injured during an Israeli army raid near the city of Nablus, according to Wafa, the official Palestinian news agency. One of the eight was in critical condition with a gunshot to the head, the report said.
  
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• Turkey's Erdogan criticizes UN peacekeepers for road blockade in Cyprus, citing bias

  21-08-2023 22:13 via foxnews.com
  
  Turkey’s president on Monday criticized U.N. peacekeepers for blocking the construction of a road in ethnically divided Cyprus, calling the action "unacceptable" and accusing the peacekeeping force of bias against Turkish Cypriots. Speaking after a Cabinet meeting, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey would not allow any "unlawful" behavior toward ethnic Turks on Cyprus, where his country maintains more than 35,000 troops in the Mediterranean island nation’s breakaway northern
  
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• The moment an earthquake hits during storm Hilary

  21-08-2023 21:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Southern California was already dealing with storm Hilary when a 5.1 magnitude earthquake struck
  
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• Hawaii wildfires: The red Lahaina house that survived Maui fires

  21-08-2023 21:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The 100-year-old wood structure was recently renovated but not fireproofed, say owners.
  
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• UK vows increased support for Iraq's anti-drug efforts, strengthening security partnership

  21-08-2023 21:14 via foxnews.com
  
  Britain’s security minister on Monday pledged more U.K. support for Iraq’s security forces in combating drug production and trafficking. In a visit to Baghdad on Monday, Security Minister Tom Tugendhat said British officials "want to build on our strong counterterrorism cooperation" and expand the countries' security relationship to "identify and address shared serious organized crime threats" including "human smuggling, trafficking, narcotics and money laundering that work together
  
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• Deadly exchange of fire at disputed Indo-Pakistani border in Kashmir raises tensions

  21-08-2023 20:55 via foxnews.com
  
  Pakistan's military accused India's troops of opening fire Monday at their disputed border in the Himalayan region of Kashmir and killing one villager who was working in a field on the Pakistani-administered side. In a statement, the Pakistani military accused Indian troops of "unprovoked firing" in violation of a ceasefire agreement. There was no immediate reaction from Indian officials. SUSPENSION BRIDGE COLLAPSES, INJURING 32 IN INDONESIA, POLICE SAY The ceasefire between Pakistan has largely
  
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• Pentagon rejects Iranian claims of 'intercept' against US Navy vessels

  21-08-2023 20:41 via foxnews.com
  
  The Iranian navy released footage purporting to show fast attack craft harassing U.S. Navy vessels in the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, but the U.S. Defense Department says no such intercept occurred and the Iranian claim is "untrue." Iranian media first posted the Iranian navy's footage on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. They claimed the heavily-edited footage showed fast attack vessels "intercepting" the USS Bataan and USS Thomas Hudner on August 17. "That report is not true. So I don
  
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• Indonesia's electric vehicle push complicated by price concerns, low confidence

  21-08-2023 20:40 via foxnews.com
  
  Indonesia's government used the Jakarta auto show to double down on plans to drive production and sales of electric vehicles in Southeast Asia's largest auto market, but buyers are not sold yet. The price premium on electric vehicles (EVs), questions about the availability of charging stations and doubts about new brands are reasons to hold back for now, said visitors to the auto show in Tangerang, on the outskirts of Jakarta. Dody Hartono, a visitor at the auto show who plans to buy his first E
  
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• Japanese health ministry panel recommends approval of Alzheimer's treatment Leqembi

  21-08-2023 20:30 via foxnews.com
  
  A Japanese health ministry panel on Monday recommended approval of the Alzheimer's disease treatment Leqembi, following standard approval for the drug granted by U.S. regulators last month. REVANCE'S BOTOX RIVAL GETS FDA APPROVAL FOR PAINFUL NECK MUSCLE CONDITION The expert panel's decision sets the stage for official approval of the drug, co-developed by Japan's Eisai and U.S.-based Biogen. An Eisai executive said this month the company expects to begin marketing Leqembi in Japan within about 6
  
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• Pakistan gives cash to nearly 100 homeless Christian families following destructive Muslim-led riot

  21-08-2023 20:20 via foxnews.com
  
  Pakistani authorities on Monday handed out thousands of dollars to nearly 100 Christian families whose homes were destroyed or damaged by a Muslim mob angered over an alleged desecration of the Quran last week. The government of caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar said each household was getting $6,800 in compensation on Monday. Police said they have arrested dozens more rioters in ongoing raids, bringing the total number of those detained over the attacks in the city of Jaranwala to 16
  
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• UK baby-killer Lucy Letby sentenced to life in prison: 'Malevolence bordering on sadism'

  21-08-2023 20:01 via foxnews.com
  
  Lucy Letby, the UK's most murderous child serial killer, has been sentenced to life in prison. Letby, a former neonatal nurse who was arrested in 2018 and later convicted of murdering seven babies in her care at a hospital in northern England and attempting to kill six others, was sentenced Monday to life in prison with no chance of release. In the ruling, Justice James Goss did not mince words when highlighting the nature of what the 33-year-old nurse did. "There was a malevolence bordering on
  
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• Greek patrol rescue nearly 80 migrants that tried to cross Aegean Sea in inflatable dinghies

  21-08-2023 19:54 via foxnews.com
  
  Greek patrol boats in the eastern Aegean Sea on Monday rescued nearly 80 migrants trying to cross from Turkey in inflatable dinghies in two separate incidents, as the number of such dangerous journeys increases. Over the weekend, the coast guard picked up another 200 people who had left Turkey in similar boats provided by smugglers for Greece's nearby eastern Aegean islands. A coast guard statement said 40 migrants were rescued from a drifting dinghy off the coast of Lesbos island Monday, shortl
  
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• Canadian firefighters making progress in battle against wildfires, thousands still evacuated from their homes

  21-08-2023 19:50 via foxnews.com
  
  Firefighters reported some progress against blazes in a British Columbia region known for picturesque resort towns, but hundreds more fires raging across Canada have pushed thousands from their homes and threatened a territorial capital hundreds of miles to the north. West Kelowna Fire Chief Jason Broland said the effort made Sunday in the Lake Okanagan region offered "a bit of a glimmer of hope" for the area known as a summer destination for families. More than 1,200 miles away, fire crews foug
  
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• Ecuadorians vote to halt oil drilling in biodiverse Amazonian national park

  21-08-2023 19:46 via theguardian.com
  
  Referendum result protecting Yasuní reserve will benefit huge range of species as well as ‘uncontacted’ Indigenous peoplesEcuadorians have voted in a historic referendum to halt the development of all new oilwells in the Yasuní national park in the Amazon, one of the most biodiverse regions on the planet.Voters opted to safeguard the unique biosphere by a margin of nearly 20% with more than 90% of the ballot counted – with more than 58% in favour and 41% against,
  
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• WATCH: Dog eats groom’s passport before destination wedding

  21-08-2023 19:16 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A Boston couple’s golden retriever chewed through multiple pages of groom Donatto Frattaroli’s passport just days before they were set to fly to Italy for their wedding.
  
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• Pope Francis calls for a peaceful end to Niger’s crisis following the country's military coup

  21-08-2023 18:28 via foxnews.com
  
  Pope Francis expressed hope Sunday for a peaceful solution to the crisis in Niger following the military coup in the West African nation. The pontiff told the faithful in St. Peter's Square that he is following events with concern, joining an appeal "for peace in the country and stability in the Sahel region." He called on the international community "to find a peaceful solution as soon as possible, for the good of all." WEST AFRICA LEFT WITH FEW OPTIONS TO RESTORE ORDER IN NIGER AFTER JUNTA TAK
  
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• Japan vows to support fisheries during country’s decades-long process of releasing Fukushima nuclear waste

  21-08-2023 18:26 via foxnews.com
  
  Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Monday promised his government's full support for fishing communities during the decades-long process to release treated radioactive wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea. Meeting with fisheries representatives, Kishida promised measures to protect the fishing industry's reputation until the release ends. Masanobu Sakamoto, head of the National Federation of Fisheries Cooperatives, reiterated his organization's opposition to the
  
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• Domino's Pizza signals closure of Russian business

  21-08-2023 18:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The franchise owner says it will place its Russian business into bankruptcy.
  
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• Dramatic video shows drunk driver smashing into speeding train

  21-08-2023 17:50 via foxnews.com
  
  A drunk driver in Taiwan was captured on camera attempted to speed through a rail crossing at the same moment as a train. Dramatic CCTV footage shows the moment driver, Lin Nan, speeding through a train-crossing barrier at the same time as a train was rolling through, with Lin smashing into the side of the train and the white car he was driving being thrown to the side as the train speeds by the crossing. The video ends with a car safely passing through the crossing after the barriers are raised
  
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• Mario: Voice of Nintendo game star Charles Martinet steps down after 27 years

  21-08-2023 17:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The actor will continue to work with Nintendo as a "Mario ambassador".
  
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• Saudi border guards kill possibly hundreds of Ethiopian migrants arriving from Yemen, rights group says

  21-08-2023 16:52 via foxnews.com
  
  Border guards in Saudi Arabia have fired machine guns and launched mortars at Ethiopians trying to cross into the kingdom from Yemen, likely killing hundreds of the unarmed migrants in recent years, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Monday. The rights group cited eyewitness reports of attacks by troops and images that showed dead bodies and burial sites on migrant routes, saying the death toll could even be "possibly thousands." The United Nations has already questioned Saudi Arabia a
  
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• Balkan leaders attend Greek meeting with top UN officials: Zelenskyy rumored to be attending

  21-08-2023 16:51 via foxnews.com
  
  The leaders of several Balkan countries gathered in the Greek capital on Monday along with top European Union officials to discuss the region’s European future. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis hosted an informal dinner Monday evening in Athens for the top officials from nine Balkan nations as well as European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council head Charles Michel. Greek media reports that the dinner would also be attended by Ukrainian President Volodymy
  
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• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanks Danish lawmakers for sending warplanes as Russian war continues

  21-08-2023 16:37 via foxnews.com
  
  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked Danish lawmakers on Monday for helping his country resist Russia’s invasion, a day after Denmark and the Netherlands announced they will provide Kyiv with F-16 warplanes that could be delivered around the end of the year. Zelenskyy told the lawmakers during a visit to Copenhagen that if Russia’s invasion is successful, other parts of Europe would be at risk from the Kremlin’s military aggression. "All of Russia’s neighbors a
  
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• 4 Mexicans killed while attempting to climb Pico de Orizaba, the country's highest peak

  21-08-2023 16:37 via foxnews.com
  
  Four Mexican citizens died in a climbing accident on the Pico de Orizaba, which is the highest mountain the country, authorities said Sunday. The civil defense office in the central state of Puebla said all four deaths appeared to have been caused by a fall on the volcanic mountain, which is also known by its indigenous name Citlaltepetl. It soars to 18,619 feet. The office said two of the climbers were from the neighboring state of Veracruz and at least one was from Puebla. The peak stands on t
  
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• Spanish police confirm Tenerife wildfire was started deliberately

  21-08-2023 16:03 via foxnews.com
  
  Canary Islands regional President Fernando Clavijo said Sunday that police have confirmed that a wildfire raging on the Spanish tourist island of Tenerife was started deliberately. Clavijo said police had opened three lines of investigation but did not say if there had been any arrests. Improved weather conditions helped firefighters make advances overnight in their battle to tame the blaze that has raged out of control for the past five days, authorities said Sunday. "The night was very difficu
  
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• Spanish FA president apologises for Hermoso kiss

  21-08-2023 16:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Luis Rubiales apologises for kissing forward Jenni Hermoso on the lips after Spain's Women's World Cup final win following widespread criticism.
  
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• Guatemalan presidential candidate wins in landslide but political elite could prevent him from taking office

  21-08-2023 15:57 via foxnews.com
  
  Guatemala’s Bernardo Arévalo was resoundingly elected to be the country’s next president Sunday, but a legal case could prevent him from assuming power in the corruption-plagued Central American country. With 100% of votes counted, preliminary results gave Arévalo 58% of the vote — over former first lady Sandra Torres’s 37% — but questions remain as to whether he would be allowed to assume power, as the Attorney General's Office could suspend his party
  
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• Protests in Syria spread as anger over increasing prices continues to grow in the war-torn country

  21-08-2023 15:34 via foxnews.com
  
  Protests spread Monday in two government-held provinces in southern Syria amid widespread anger over increasing prices, the crash of the Syrian pound and the dwindling purchasing power of many people in the war-torn country, opposition activists said. The rare protests are still limited to southern Syria and are far from government strongholds along the Mediterranean coast, the capital Damascus and the largest cities, including Aleppo and Homs. The protests came a week after Syrian President Bas
  
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• What the babies' parents told Lucy Letby as she was sentenced

  21-08-2023 14:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The dad of two murdered boys says "it destroyed me", and a mum says she relives an attack "every day".
  
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• Tropical Storm Hilary live updates: Southern California sees historic rainfall

  21-08-2023 14:11 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A tropical storm warning has been issued for Southern California.
  
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• Anti-corruption campaigner wins Guatemala presidential election

  21-08-2023 14:11 via theguardian.com
  
  Bernado Arévalo’s surprise victory comes at time of growing concern for state of democracy in Central AmericaCentral America’s democratic downswing has received a powerful correction after the centrist anti-corruption crusader Bernardo Arévalo was elected president of Guatemala – a result almost inconceivable just a few weeks ago.Alongside El Salvador and Nicaragua, Guatemala was one of several Central American countries to have suffered a troubling authoritarian
  
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• WATCH: Hilary brings heavy rain and flooded roads to Coachella Valley

  21-08-2023 13:44 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Heavy rains brought on by Tropical Storm Hilary to Southern California have caused roads to flood in some parts of the region.
  
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• Driver hits crowd, injuring 7 in midtown Manhattan, NYPD says

  21-08-2023 13:44 via abcnews.go.com
  
  All of the injured had non-life-threatening injuries, according to a spokesperson for the New York Police Department.
  
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• Murder of Black community activist, 72, in Brazil prompts calls for action

  21-08-2023 12:05 via theguardian.com
  
  Maria Bernadete Pacífico, whose son was shot dead in 2017, killed by gunmen at her home in BahiaHuman rights organisations in Brazil are clamouring for justice following the murder of a Black community activist who had been receiving threats.Maria Bernadete Pacífico, a community and religious leader in the Pitanga dos Palmares quilombo – an Afro-Brazilian settlement of descendants of escaped slaves in the north-east state of Bahia – was killed on Thursday evening. Conti
  
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• ‘Gigantic step backwards’: far-right gains in Chile threaten abortion rights

  21-08-2023 11:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Concerns mount as ultraconservative Republican party’s ‘right to life’ proposal could be enshrined in constitutionThe hard-won right to an abortion in Chile is at risk of being overturned, activists have warned, as the country’s far right moves to enshrine protection for “the life of the unborn child and maternity” in a new constitution.Concerns have grown over the ultraconservative Republican party’s plans to pare back reproductive rights in Chile as it
  
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• Cincinnati Open: Novak Djokovic wins title by beating Carlos Alcaraz as rivalry intensifies

  21-08-2023 11:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Novak Djokovic says his rivalry with Carlos Alcaraz is similar to the one he shared with Rafael Nadal after a classic final.
  
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• Russia, China look to advance agendas at BRICS summit in South Africa

  21-08-2023 10:54 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Russia and China will look to gain more political and economic ground in the developing world at a summit in South Africa this week
  
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• Women's World Cup: Ellen White - England Lionesses' success will have lasting legacy

  21-08-2023 10:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The success of England's Lionesses at the Women's World Cup will have a lasting legacy, says record scorer Ellen White.
  
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• Canada wildfires: Drone footage shows scale of destruction in Northwest Territories

  21-08-2023 10:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Enterprise in Canada's Northwest Territories is burnt to the ground as wildfires continue to grip the country.
  
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• Storm Hilary: Hollywood and Disneyland among iconic locations hit

  21-08-2023 10:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tropical Storm Hilary is barrelling through Southern California where 26 million people face flood warnings.
  
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• Ally of former leftist Ecuador president to face tycoon’s son in runoff election

  21-08-2023 09:11 via theguardian.com
  
  Luisa González, who has pledged to revive Rafael Correa’s social programmes, to run against Daniel Noboa in OctoberA protege of Ecuador’s former leftist president Rafael Correa will face the son of one of the country’s richest men in a runoff presidential vote in October, after first-round voting on Sunday failed to produce an outright winner.With more than three-quarters of ballots counted, Luisa González, who has promised to revive Correa’s social programm
  
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• Women's World Cup 2023: What next for England and Sarina Wiegman?

  21-08-2023 09:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  England return from Australia following defeat in the Women's World Cup final - but what will they be looking ahead to now?
  
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• Russian spacecraft crashes into the moon

  21-08-2023 07:33 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A Russian spacecraft on a mission to the moon crashed and lost contact, according to Russia's space agency.
  
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• Four die in climbing accident on the Pico de Orizaba, Mexico's highest peak

  21-08-2023 07:27 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Authorities in Mexico say four Mexican citizens have died in a climbing accident on the Pico de Orizaba
  
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• Pioneering wind-powered cargo ship sets sail

  21-08-2023 07:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Inventors hope maiden voyage will help usher in new era of greener shipping.
  
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• Ecuador divided after bloody election campaign

  21-08-2023 06:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The search for peace will now be at the heart of campaigning in October's presidential run-off.
  
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