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A moment shaping the map: News pulse 2026-08-29 · CBC: In volleyball, the Canadian women’s national team qualifies for the upcoming Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, U.S., their first qualification since 1996 following a victory against the Dominican Republic in the Women's NORCECA Volleyball Continental Championship. A perspective from Shanghai.
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A moment shaping the map: News pulse 2026-08-18 · Xinhua: At least eight people are killed and more than 20 others are injured after a vehicle rams into a truck in Madhya Pradesh, India. A perspective from Chicago.
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A moment shaping the map: News pulse 2026-09-10 · Al Jazeera: Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and defense minister Israel Katz say that the IDF has destroyed a Hezbollah tunnel in Ali al-Taher. A perspective from Vancouver.
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News pulse 2026-08-17 · Tribune: At least 22 people are killed in a mass shooting in Kebbe, Sokoto State, Nigeria.
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News pulse 2026-09-08 · The Guardian: A third-year student in the marching band at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, U.S., dies after collapsing during extreme heat at the Iowa Hawkeyes season opener at Kinnick Stadium. Temperatures reached at the time of the game.
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News pulse 2026-09-15 · Kurdistan 24: The United Nations reports that more than 100,000 people have fled their homes in western and southern Yemen due the ongoing Houthi offensive against Yemeni government forces, and that 2,400 refugees have arrived in Djibouti in the last four days alone.
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News pulse 2026-09-01 · France 24: The International Monetary Fund reaches a staff-level agreement with Senegal on a new US$2.2 billion, 36-month loan program supporting economic reforms after an earlier arrangement was suspended over previously unreported government debt.
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World brief 2026-09-15: ProRail services across northern and central parts of the Netherlands are disrupted by a sabotage operation after pipes are attached to tracks, resulting in the failure of railway signals.
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News pulse 2026-08-19 · BBC News: Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that a Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv killed at least 15 people and injured 40 others, damaging residential buildings, a children's hospital, and a school.
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World brief 2026-09-11: A Hong Kong court sentences pro-democracy activists Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung to seven years in prison each for inciting subversion under the national security law for leading the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China.
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News pulse 2026-09-06 · Al Jazeera: Exit polls show the far-right Alternative for Germany party winning the Saxony-Anhalt state election in Germany but failing to secure an absolute majority of seats.
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World brief 2026-09-11: A Hong Kong court sentences pro-democracy activists Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung to seven years in prison each for inciting subversion under the national security law for leading the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China.
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News pulse 2026-08-23 · Sudan Tribune: The SAF-allied Joint Forces says that they have destroyed a Rapid Support Forces convoy in the northern desert bordering Libya, along with capturing several vehicles and drone equipment.
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News pulse 2026-09-07 · Barron's: More than 300 people are killed amid the deadliest fighting in the war since 2022.
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News pulse 2026-09-05 · Dawn: Russia and Ukraine agree to halt strikes on Kyiv and Moscow, respectively, during United States-mediated peace talks, as U.S. envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff meet Russian president Vladimir Putin in Moscow before traveling to Kyiv.
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News pulse 2026-08-16 · TVP World: St. Nicolas' Church is completely destroyed by a fire at the Museum of Folk Architecture in Sanok, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Poland.
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News pulse 2026-08-21 · Reuters: A person is killed and three other people are injured in a mass stabbing, carried out with a sword, at a high school in Fagersta, Sweden. The perpetrator is arrested at the scene.
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News pulse 2026-08-29 · AP: Nigerien television confirms that dissenting elements of the Niger Armed Forces attempted a coup in the nation's capital, Niamey. Attacks are reported on Diori Hamani International Airport and the Presidential Palace.
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News pulse 2026-08-30 · RFI: Chinese leader Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan arrive in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, for the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit and a state visit.
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News pulse 2026-09-06 · Al Jazeera: Exit polls show the far-right Alternative for Germany party winning the Saxony-Anhalt state election in Germany but failing to secure an absolute majority of seats.
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News pulse 2026-09-11 · The Telegraph: In retaliation to British sanctions on goods from Israeli settlements earlier this week, the Israeli government orders a team of British soldiers who train and advise Palestinian Authority security forces in the West Bank to leave the country.
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News pulse 2026-09-12 · Philippine Daily Inquirer: The Philippine coast guard confirms that 41 more bodies have been discovered aboard the burned vessel MV June Aster off Coron, Palawan, bringing the death toll from the fire to 76.
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News pulse 2026-08-20 · Al Jazeera: Human Rights Watch reports that Africa Corps forces summarily killed nine civilians, including four children, in Mali last month.
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News pulse 2026-09-03 · Al Jazeera: Officials at a United Nations Security Council meeting say that Syria has started the process of destroying clandestine chemical weapons from former president Bashar al-Assad's regime.
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