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By Umit Bektas ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Turkish police clashed with protesters around Istanbul’s main Taksim Square on Tuesday and 170 people were detained as they gathered to mark the anniversary of nationwide anti-government demonstrations that began nine years ago in nearby Gezi Park. The 2013 demonstrations were the biggest popular challenge to then-Premier Tayyip Erdogan’s rule. …

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By Brad Brooks and Daniel Trotta UVALDE, Texas (Reuters) -The grieving Texas town of Uvalde began laying to rest the 21 children and teachers who were killed in a mass shooting at an elementary school a week ago, with funerals scheduled on Tuesday for a pair of 10-year-old girls. According to obituaries on the websites …

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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -A senior U.N. official had “constructive discussions” in Moscow with Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov on facilitating Russian grain and fertilizer exports to global markets, U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said on Tuesday. The U.N. official, Rebecca Grynspan, is now in Washington for talks on the same issue …

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By Carlos Valdez LIMA (Reuters) – A team of archaeologists has discovered a network of passageways under a more than 3,000-year-old temple in the Peruvian Andes. Chavin de Huantar temple, located in the north-central Andes, was once a religious and administrative center for people across the region. The passageways were found earlier in May and …

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ANKARA (Reuters) – The German and French ambassadors to Ankara were summoned to the Turkish foreign ministry to protest events organised by Kurdish militants in those countries, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Tuesday. Speaking to state-run Anadolu news agency, Cavusoglu said the ambassadors were told of Turkey’s discomfort with the events organised by the …

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By Horaci Garcia KYIV (Reuters) – As volunteer fighters Oleksandr Zhuhan and Antonina Romanova pack for a return to active duty, they contemplate the unicorn insignia that gives their uniform a rare distinction – a symbol of their status as an LGBTQ couple who are Ukrainian soldiers. Members of Ukraine’s LGBTQ community who sign up for …

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By Casey Hall and Samuel Shen SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Shanghai authorities on Tuesday began dismantling fences around housing compounds and ripping police tape off public squares and buildings, to the relief of the city’s 25 million residents, before a painful two-month lockdown is lifted at midnight. On Monday evening, some of the people allowed out of …

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