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Thailand school shooting toll rises to nine after death of 12-year-old girl, police say
BANGKOK, Aug 8 (Reuters) - The death toll from a school shooting in Thailand rose to nine on Saturday, after police said a 12-year-old girl caught up in Friday's incident had died.
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Hungary's ruling party nominates former supreme court head Baka as president
BUDAPEST, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Hungary's ruling Tisza party nominated Andras Baka, a former head of the Supreme Court, as the country's next president, the party's parliamentary group said on Facebook on Saturday.
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'Mom, don't call me': Inside Thailand's deadly school shooting
BANG KRUAI, Thailand, Aug 8 (Reuters) - When a shot rang out at the Debsirin Nonthaburi School on the outskirts of Bangkok on Friday morning, 14-year-old Khim and her classmates peered over a balcony to see if the noise had come from a construction site.
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Bulgaria's Radev says drone exploded in Bulgaria's airspace
ATHENS, Aug 8 (Reuters) - A drone entered Bulgarian airspace from Romania's airspace on Saturday and exploded near the village of Kardam, Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev said in a statement, adding that there were no casualties or infrastructure damage.
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Fire at Russia's Ilsky oil refinery put out after Ukrainian drone attack
MOSCOW, Aug 8 (Reuters) - A fire at the Ilsky oil refinery in Russia's southern Krasnodar region has been extinguished, local authorities said on Saturday, adding that it had been caused by debris from a Ukrainian drone.
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Drones spotted above German military base two days after suspected drone attack
BERLIN, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Two drones were spotted above a military base in western Germany late on Thursday, two days after an explosive-laden drone was found near a runway at Leipzig/Halle Airport in the east of the country, authorities said on Saturday.
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Russian drones kill 3-year-old boy and grandparents near Kyiv, Zelenskiy says
KYIV, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Russian drones killed a three-year-old boy and his grandparents in a village in the Kyiv region, and another person was killed during an overnight ballistic attack on the capital, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday.
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Storm leaves 1 dead, 5 injured in southern Brazil
SAO PAULO, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- A storm accompanied by a tornado left one person dead, five injured and more than 2,300 people displaced in Brazil's southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, the state Civil Defense agency said Friday.
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1st LD Writethru: Firefighting helicopter crashes while battling wildfire in U.S. Utah
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- A firefighting helicopter crashed Friday while battling a large wildfire in the U.S. state of Utah, authorities said.
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Urgent: Firefighting helicopter crashes while battling wildfire in U.S. Utah
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- A firefighting helicopter crashed Friday while battling a large wildfire in the U.S. state of Utah, authorities said.
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Largest reservoir in U.S. falls to record low amid prolonged drought
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States, has fallen to its lowest water level since it was first filled in 1937, amid a prolonged drought, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.
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2nd LD Writethru: Spain to impose temporary border checks on arrivals from Italy
MADRID, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- Spain announced on Friday that it would temporarily restore internal border checks for travelers arriving from Italy in response to Rome's refusal to lift border controls on travelers arriving from Spain amid the recent migration crisis in the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta.
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Russia dismisses German drone incident as 'fabricated provocation'
BERLIN, Aug 7 (Reuters) - The Russian embassy in Berlin dismissed a suspected drone attack at a major German air freight hub this week as "fabricated provocation" on Friday, saying it was another example of accusations against Russia without evidence.
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1st LD: Spain to impose temporary border checks on arrivals from Italy
MADRID, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- Spain announced on Friday that it would temporarily restore internal border checks for travelers arriving from Italy in response to Rome's refusal to lift border controls on travelers arriving from Spain amid the recent migration crisis in the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta.
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Spain to establish border controls on travellers from Italy amid migration dispute
MADRID/ROME, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Spain's government said on Friday it would establish border controls for flights and ships from Italy from midnight on Saturday until September 7 in a dispute with the neighbouring country over irregular migration.
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US Senate confirms dozens of Trump nominees, filling gaps in diplomatic corps
WASHINGTON, Aug 7 (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Friday confirmed dozens of President Donald Trump's nominees for government positions, including some high-profile ambassadorships and top State Department posts that have been open for months.
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Iraqi PM, Saudi intelligence chief discuss regional security as militias delay response
Aug 7 (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi met Saudi general intelligence chief Khalid al-Humaidan on Friday to discuss coordination over regional security developments, the prime minister's office said.
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