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  3 Venezuelans plead guilty for aiding anti-Maduro plot

  Three Venezuelan men pleaded guilty to helping organize an ill-conceived invasion last year to remove President Nicolas Maduro.

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  Prince William and Kate reach out to U.K. teen struggling with suicide

  The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge recently spoke to a 12-year-old boy suffering from anxiety and suicidal thoughts through a text-based mental health service they started back in 2019.

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  Death of South Korea's first transgender soldier spurs calls for change

  The death of South Korea's first known transgender soldier, who was discharged last year for undergoing gender reassignment surgery, sparked calls from advocacy groups and activists for better protections and acknowledgement of transgender residents

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  Violent Senegal protests supporting opposition leader kill 1

  Days of violent protests in Senegal have killed at least one person, local reports say, as young people take to the streets nationwide in support of the main opposition leader who was detained Wednesday.

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  Protesters defy Myanmar security forces as UN action urged

  Demonstrators defied growing violence by Myanmar security forces and staged more anti-coup rallies Friday, while the UN special envoy for the country called for urgent Security Council action, saying about 50 peaceful protesters were killed and scores were injured in the military's worst crackdowns this week.

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  3rd-degree murder count could be reinstated in Floyd's death

  The Minnesota Court of Appeals on Friday ordered a judge to reconsider adding a third-degree murder charge against a former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd's death, handing a potential victory to prosecutors, but setting up a possible delay to a trial set to start next week.

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  U.S. to open more beds for immigrant children as numbers rise

  President Joe Biden's administration is instructing long-term facilities that hold immigrant children to lift capacity restrictions enacted during the coronavirus pandemic to open up much-needed beds in a system facing sharply increasing needs.

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  'Hotel Rwanda' hero was tricked onto plane, into arrest

  A key piece of the mystery around the arrest of the man who inspired the film "Hotel Rwanda" became clear on Friday when a pastor told a Rwandan court he worked with someone from the Rwanda Investigation Bureau to trick him onto a private plane from Dubai.

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  Myanmar cracked down brutally on protests. It may get worse

  The slide from a nascent democracy to yet another coup, as rapid as it has been brutal, opens up a grim possibility: As bad as it looks in Myanmar now, if the country's long history of violent military rule is any guide, things could get worse.

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  Swiss mull 'burqa ban' in vote centring on security, rights

  At a time when seemingly everyone in Europe is wearing masks to battle COVID-19, the Swiss go to the polls Sunday to vote on a long-laid proposal to ban face-coverings, both the niqabs and burqas worn by a few Muslim women in the country and the ski masks and bandannas used by protesters.

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  Iran's Revolutionary Guard says airplane hijacking disrupted

  Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard on Friday said authorities disrupted an attempted hijacking of a passenger plane in flight the previous night, though it offered few details on what happened.

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  House impeachment manager sues Trump, allies over U.S. Capitol riot

  Rep. Eric Swalwell, who served as a House manager in Donald Trump's last impeachment trial, filed a lawsuit Friday against the former president, his son, lawyer and a Republican congressman whose actions he charges led to January's insurrection.