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        <title>What we know about the Trump press gala shooting</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[US President Donald Trump and other attendees at a glitzy media gala in Washington made a hasty exit Saturday night after gunshots were fired.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[Trump said he scrapped the visit after being unimpressed with Tehran&#039;s negotiating position, adding that a revised proposal followed within minutes of his decision.]]></description>
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        <title>Role of women in the Anglican, Catholic Churches</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the Catholic church, only men can serve as clergy, whether cardinals, priests, or deacons, and of course, the pope has only ever been male.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[The new multinational force tasked with combating gangs in Haiti will deploy in &quot;phases&quot; over the coming months, a special representative for the force said Thursday.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[France on Thursday defended keeping climate change off the agenda at a meeting of G7 environment ministers in Paris, saying it was necessary to avoid a clash with the United States.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[UN chief contenders pitch stronger peace-focused United Nations in hearings this week; candidates avoid firm positions to not antagonise member states choosing next leader]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[The US blocked a plane carrying nearly $500 million in banknotes from delivering the cash to Iraq, US media reported on Tuesday, piling pressure on Baghdad to fight Iran-backed militant groups.]]></description>
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        <title>Costly pleasure: Prices of condoms set to increase</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Prices of condoms set to go up due to hike in cost of production]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[Nepal&#039;s home minister stepped down Wednesday over growing criticism of his finances, the second member of the cabinet to leave the new government just weeks after it was formed.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[Russia confirmed Wednesday it will halt the pipeline flow of Kazakh oil to Germany next month, citing technical reasons, as Berlin stressed it does not expect an energy supply crunch.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[The United States and Iran both warned they were ready for war as the clock ticked down on a ceasefire on Tuesday, with uncertainty over whether talks would resume in Pakistan.]]></description>
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        <title>On Ukraine front, married medics face war side by side</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[While Ukrainian combat medic Anastasia Podobailo cleaned blood from a wounded soldier&#039;s arm, her colleague and husband Mykola Yasinenko checked if the intravenous drip was flowing.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[Japan will ease decades-old arms export rules, the government&#039;s top spokesman Minoru Kihara said on Tuesday, a policy shift that paves the way for the sale of lethal weapons overseas.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[Nearly 490 alleged members of the powerful Central American gang Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), went on trial collectively in El Salvador on Monday, accused of thousands of murders.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[Elon Musk did not appear Monday for a voluntary interview with Paris prosecutors, who had summoned him over a probe into his social media platform X and AI chatbok Grok.]]></description>
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