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Putin meets Trump's envoy in St. Petersburg over a Ukraine peace plan

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Vladimir Putin and US envoy Steve Witkoff met for nearly three hours in St. Petersburg on Wednesday, the Kremlin said. The talks came a day after Witkoff met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Oslo.

UN says the world is heading for 2.6°C of warming this century

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Even if countries keep their pledges, global temperatures would be 2.6°C above pre-industrial levels by 2100, the UN Environment Programme's annual emissions gap report says. That is worse than last year's 2.3°C to 2.5°C, partly because the United States left the Paris Agreement.

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Two capsizings off Greek islands kill 12 migrants

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Six people died late Sunday when a speedboat carrying Syrian and Palestinian migrants hit a coast guard vessel south of Lesbos and capsized, Greece's coast guard said. An infant was among the dead, and eight people were rescued, including a suspected smuggler.

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Esther Rantzen is laid to rest, leaving a final message on assisted dying

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The Childline founder, 86, died at her home in England's New Forest on Sep 30, and her family held a private funeral last week.

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US airman dies after a rappelling fall at a Texas stadium

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Tech. Sgt. Ian Patterson fell while rappelling from the rafters of the Alamodome before a college football game on Saturday, and died in hospital.

A gold mine collapse in Colombia kills at least 14 people

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The collapse of an informal gold mine in southwestern Colombia killed 14 people and injured seven others, local authorities said on Monday.

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An exiled critic of Rwanda's president is found beheaded in Uganda

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Ugandan police are investigating the killing of Robert Kabera, 50, a former Rwandan army sergeant whose body was found in Luwala, a village near Kampala. His head has not been recovered.

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Drone strikes blamed on Sudan's army kill more than 200 people

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Strikes in two areas of West Kordofan state on Sunday evening killed 150 people, including dozens travelling to a funeral, sources told the Sudan War Observatory.