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TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan’s Emperor Emeritus Akihito, father of the current emperor, received a diagnosis of heart failure but his condition has improved under treatment, an official at the Imperial Household Agency (IHA) said on Tuesday. Akihito, 88, stepped down in 2019 in the first abdication of a Japanese emperor for two centuries, saying he was …

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PANAMA CITY (Reuters) – The Panamanian government announced on Monday it will regulate the price of 72 food items following weeks of angry protests and street blockades demanding the government take measures to stem the quickly rising cost of living. Across the dollarized Central American nation protesters have been blocking roads and even stopping trucks …

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MASKWACIS, Alberta (Reuters) – An anguished rendering of Canada’s national anthem in Cree by an indigenous woman as tears streamed down her face marked one of several emotional moments in the first leg of Pope Francis’s apology tour in Canada. The unscripted moment capped a ceremony fraught with symbolism for thousands of residential school survivors …

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(Reuters) – Pope Francis on Monday made good on a promise to apologize to Canada’s native people on their home land for the Church’s role in schools where indigenous children were abused, branding forced cultural assimilation “evil” and a “disastrous error”. Here are some reactions to Pope’s apology. CORNELL MCLEAN, ACTING GRAND CHIEF OF THE …

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By Philip Pullella and Tim Johnson MASKWACIS, Alberta (Reuters) – Pope Francis apologized on Monday to Canada’s native people on their land for the Church’s role in schools where indigenous children were abused, calling their forced cultural assimilation a “deplorable evil” and “disastrous error.” Speaking near the site of two former schools in Maskwacis, Alberta, …

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By Pavel Polityuk, Max Hunder and Michelle Nichols KYIV/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The first shipments of Ukrainian grain could leave Black Sea ports within days under a U.N.-brokered deal to tackle a global food crisis that has worsened since Russia invaded its neighbor, the United Nations and Ukraine said on Monday. “All parties have reconfirmed their …

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By Tarek Amara and Angus McDowall TUNIS (Reuters) -Tunisians began voting on Monday in a referendum on a new constitution that critics of President Kais Saied fear will dismantle the democracy that emerged from a 2011 revolution by handing him nearly total power. The vote is being held on the first anniversary of Saied’s ousting …

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By Renju Jose SYDNEY (Reuters) – The number of Australians admitted to hospitals with COVID-19 hit a record of about 5,450 on Monday, official data showed, as the spread of highly contagious new Omicron sub-variants strains the healthcare system nationwide. The figure has grown since late June, as the BA.4 and BA.5 strains became dominant …

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