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Author Salman Rushdie on ventilator hours after New York stabbing, his agent says
Author Salman Rushdie is tended to after he was attacked during a lecture, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022, at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, N.Y., about 75 miles (120 km) south of Buffalo. (AP Photo/Joshua Goodman)
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Attack on Salman Rushdie leaves authors at B.C. writing festival horrified
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‘Attacked by grievous hate’: Attack on Salman Rushdie prompts reaction from writers, free-speech advocates
FILE PHOTO: Author Salman Rushdie gestures during a news conference before the presentation of his latest book 'Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights' at the Niemeyer Center in Aviles, northern Spain, October 7, 2015. REUTERS/Eloy Alonso /File Photo
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Video captures scene moments after Salman Rushdie stabbed on stage
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Heavy fighting rages near Donetsk as Putin’s forces advance in eastern Ukraine
FILE PHOTO: Smoke rises after explosions were heard from the direction of a Russian military airbase near Novofedorivka, Crimea, in this still image obtained by Reuters August 9, 2022. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY./File Photo
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Biden formalizes U.S. support for Finland, Sweden joining NATO
WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 09: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks before signing the agreement for Finland and Sweden to be included in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in the East Room of the White House on August 09, 2022 in Washington, DC. Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the Republic of Finland and Kingdom of Sweden applied for membership in the Cold War-era military alliance. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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Ukraine suggests partisans behind blasts at Russian airbase in Crimea
Smoke rises after explosions were heard from the direction of a Russian military airbase near Novofedorivka, Crimea August 9, 2022. REUTERS/Stringer
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Nigeria arrests suspects in connection with deadly church attack
FILE PHOTO: A police crime scene tape is seen in front of St. Francis Catholic Church where gunmen attacked worshippers during a Sunday mass service in Owo, Ondo, Nigeria, June 6, 2022. REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja
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Alex Jones ordered to pay Sandy Hook parents more than $4-million
Alex Jones steps outside of the Travis County Courthouse, to do interviews with media after he was questioned under oath about text messages and emails by lawyer Mark Bankston, in Austin, Texas, U.S. August 3, 2022. Briana Sanchez/Pool via REUTERS
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Suspect mistakenly freed in Lady Gaga’s dog theft recaptured
FILE - Lady Gaga sings the national anthem during President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 20, 2021. James Howard Jackson, a suspect mistakenly released from a Los Angeles County jail where he was being held on suspicion of shooting Lady Gaga’s dog walker and stealing her French bulldogs, has been recaptured, authorities said Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022. (Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP, File)
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Family of California shooting victims sue gun distributor
People gathered gathered outside the Gilroy Police Department for a vigil for the victims of a shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival, in Gilroy, Calif., on Monday evening, July 29, 2019. At least three people were killed when a gunman opened fire at the annual festival on Sunday afternoon. (Sarahbeth Maney/The New York Times)
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Red Cross requests access to Ukraine prison after POWS die
In this photo taken from video a view of a destroyed barrack at a prison in Olenivka, in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces, eastern Ukraine, Friday, July 29, 2022. Russia and Ukraine accused each other Friday of shelling a prison in a separatist region of eastern Ukraine, an attack that reportedly killed dozens of Ukrainian military prisoners who were captured after the fall of a southern port city of Mariupol in May. (AP Photo)
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Canadian lobbyist signs US$500,000 deal with Burkina Faso as Islamist insurgency worsens
ECOWAS mediator for Burkina Faso, Mahamadou Issoufou (L) leaves the presidential palace after a meeting with Burkina Faso President, in Ouagadougou, on July 24, 2022. (Photo by OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT / AFP) (Photo by OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT/AFP via Getty Images)
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Germany offers money to families of Israeli athletes killed in attack at 1972 Olympics
FILE - A member of the Arab Commando group which seized members of the Israeli Olympic Team at their quarters at the Olympic Village appearing with a hood over his face stands on the balcony of the building where the commandos held members of the Israeli team hostage in Munich, Sept. 5, 1972. The German government indicated Wednesday that it is willing to pay further compensation for the families of the Israeli athletes killed in an attack at the 1972 Munich Olympics following decades-long criticism from relatives over how Germany handled the attack and its aftermath. (AP Photo/Kurt Strumpf, File)
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City in southwestern Japan alarmed by surge in wild monkey attacks
This image from a video shows a monkey loitering around a home in Yamaguchi, Japan, Saturday, July 23, 2022. People in the southwestern Japanese city have come under attack from monkeys that are trying to snatch babies, biting and clawing at flesh, and sneaking into nursery schools. (Anonymous via AP)
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Trump deleted references to prosecuting Jan. 6 rioters in speech draft, congressional testimony shows
FILE - President Donald Trump speaks during a rally protesting the electoral college certification of Joe Biden as President in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. Whatever decision the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit reaches on whether Congress should receive former President Donald Trump’s call logs, drafts of speeches and other documents related to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, the battle over executive privilege will likely end up with the Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
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Two men charged in Whistler, B.C., shooting that left two dead
The RCMP logo is seen outside Royal Canadian Mounted Police "E" Division Headquarters, in Surrey, B.C., on April 13, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Man opens fire on Philippine campus, killing 3 people
Funeral workers carry a victim's body at the Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon city, Philippines, Sunday, July 24, 2022. At least three people, including a former Philippine town mayor, were killed and another was wounded in a brazen attack on Sunday by a gunman in a university campus in the capital region, officials said. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
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Iraq submits complaint to UN against Turkey after attack
FILE PHOTO: The United Nations headquarters building is pictured with a UN logo in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., March 1, 2022. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
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Turkey rejects accusations its military carried out deadly artillery strikes in northern Iraq
An ambulance transports a coffin of an Iraqi who was killed in what Iraqi officials claim was a Turkish attack on a mountain resort in Iraq's northern province of Dohuk, outside a hospital, in Dohuk, Iraq, July 21, 2022. REUTERS/Ari Jalal