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US stores ask customers not to openly carry guns
The calls by the stores come as the United States grapples with an epidemic of gun violence and frequent mass shootings.
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Johnson in election mode as he visits Scotland after Brexit setbacks
Opposition lawmakers and rebels in his ruling Conservative party on Wednesday left Boris Johnson's plans for a no-deal Brexit next month in tatters and then blocked a request for a snap election on 15 October.
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SA's reluctance to deal with xenophobia may breed far-right politics: experts
They said the reluctance to deal with xenophobia and the South African public's violent predisposition were enabling an environment which could result in far-right politics.
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Erdogan threatens Europe with refugees if no support
Turkey is home to more than 3.6 million Syrian refugees and recently called for a "safe zone" in the war-torn country's northeast, to which refugees could return.
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400m Facebook users' phone numbers exposed in privacy lapse - reports
An exposed server stored 419 million records on users across several databases - including 133 million US accounts, more than 50 million in Vietnam, and 18 million in Britain, according to technology news site TechCruch.
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Hong Kong leader calls for dialogue after protesters reject concession
Carrie Lam, the city's pro-Beijing chief executive, surprised many on Wednesday when after three months of rallies she suddenly announced she was scrapping a hugely unpopular extradition law.
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US president denies involvement in Pence stay at Trump hotel
Pence stayed at the Trump International Golf Links & hotel on the west coast, despite his business with government officials taking place in Dublin, a four-hour round trip away on the opposite side of the country.
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Hong Kong extradition bill to be withdrawn: Lam
An extradition bill that triggered three months of unprecedented pro-democracy rallies in Hong Kong will be withdrawn, the city's leader announced Wednesday, bowing to one of the protesters' five key demands.
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Ramaphosa to pitch SA as investor destination of choice at WEF Africa
The three-day event in Cape Town has attracted more than 1,000 global and regional leaders from politics, business, civil society and academia.
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Bahamas toll rises to seven as Hurricane Dorian crawls along US coast
Weakening slightly but still packing a powerful punch, Hurricane Dorian churned along the southeastern coast of the United States on Tuesday as the storm's death toll in the Bahamas rose to seven.
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Hong Kong police fire beanbag rounds in overnight clashes with protesters
Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets since mid-June in sometimes violent protests calling for greater democracy in the former British colony, posing a direct challenge to the central Chinese government in Beijing.
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Kabul blast toll rises as US tries to finalise Taliban deal
In addition to the 16 killed, 119 were wounded in the attack.
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Eight dead, 26 missing as dive boat sinks in flames off California
Fire crews in helicopters, small boats and a Coast Guard cutter battled the fierce pre-dawn fire on the 23-metre Conception, which had been on a diving excursion around Santa Cruz Island, just west of Santa Barbara in southern California.
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Hong Kong leader says she would 'quit' if she could
At the closed-door meeting, Lam told the group that she now has 'very limited' room to resolve the crisis because the unrest has become a national security and sovereignty issue for China amid rising tensions with the United States.
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Hurricane Dorian kills at least five in Bahamas, turn to Florida expected
At least five people were killed in the Abaco Islands, in the northern Bahamas, Bahamian Prime Minister Hubert Minnis told a news conference on Monday.
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Palestinians demand women's protection after suspicious death
Social media posts have alleged that Israa Ghrayeb, 21, died following beatings by her family members in a supposed 'honour killing'.
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British PM faces Brexit rebellion, threatens election
Members of Johnson's own Conservative party are preparing to join opposition lawmakers to try to force a delay to Britain's exit from the European Union if he cannot secure a divorce deal with Brussels in the next few weeks.
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UK PM Johnson vows to purge those who try to clock no-deal EU divorce
Johnson insists he must keep the chaotic option open to try to persuade Brussels to relent at the last moment and agree a better economic deal for Britain.
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Johnson threatens to purge rebel Brexit MPs from party
A senior source in the whips office, responsible for party enforcement, said any Conservative lawmaker who votes against the government this week would be thrown out of the parliamentary party and banned from standing for the Conservatives in the next election.
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Denmark to retire its last four circus elephants
Highly regulated, though still controversial, elephants, sea lions and zebras are the only animals that can be used in circuses in Denmark.
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Hong Kong on edge after weekend of clashes, airport disruption
Protesters have called for a general strike on Monday but the city appeared to return to relative calm with shops open, trains operating and workers making their way to offices across the global financial hub.
