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Nearly 400 whales are dead in mass stranding off coast of Australia

BY: JULIA JACOBO, ABC News(SYDNEY) -- Nearly 400 pilot whales have died after they became stranded off the coast of Australia, wildlife officials announced Wednesday.The whales began piling up off Macquarie Harbour on Tasmania's West Coast earlier this ...
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Lukashenko sworn in as Belarus president in surprise, closed ceremony

By PATRICK REEVELL, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Belarus' authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko was sworn in as president in a surprise, secretive ceremony held Wednesday amid tight security and with no announcement beforehand.The ceremony was held without a live ...
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Rescue efforts underway for hundreds of pilot whales stranded off Australia’s coast

BY: JULIA JACOBO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A rescue team in Australia is attempting to save as many pilot whales as possible after more than 270 became stranded in waters off the coast of Tasmania.The whales are currently ...
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Over 330 elephants suddenly collapsed and died. Scientists now have an explanation

By DRAGANA JOVANOVIC, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- The mystery surrounding hundreds of sudden elephant deaths in Botswana seems to have been solved and the findings bring an end to months of speculation on why at least 330 elephants were found ...
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US reimposes Iran sanctions, setting up showdown with world that rejects them

BY: CONOR FINNEGAN, ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday, authorizing new sanctions on Iranian officials and entities, and those that buy or sell arms to them, because of the "snapped back" United Nations sanctions.
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New species of burrowing dinosaur found perfectly preserved in ‘Cretaceous Pompeii’

By JON HAWORTH, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Paleontologists in China have discovered a brand new species of burrowing dinosaur that dates back an estimated 125 million years ago.The newly found dinosaur species was discovered in the Lujiatun Beds, ...
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Iran’s Revolutionary Guard commander vows ‘hit’ on all involved in US killing of top general Qassem Soleimani

By SOMAYEH MALEKIAN, ABC News(TEHRAN) -- Iran officials again denied Saturday any plot to assassinate the U.S. ambassador in South Africa as an act of retaliation to the killing of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' top general, Qassem Soleimani. However, ...
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Israel goes on its second lockdown as Jewish High Holidays begin

By ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Israel's second COVID-19 lockdown started on Friday as the Jewish High Holidays began.The lockdown, which will last for three weeks, went into effect at 2 p.m. local time. Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new ...
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Death of George Floyd prompts reckoning over race, colonialism in Europe

By GUY DAVIES, ABC News(LONDON) -- The summer of protests following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis was not confined to the United States. Demonstrations featuring placards emblazoned with Floyd's face and his last words, "I can't breathe," spread ...
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Animal rescue group reunites pets with owners after Beirut explosion

By ANGELINE JANE BERNABE, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Beirut, Lebanon, is still devastated by the Aug. 4 explosion that ripped through the city, killing 190 people and destroying homes and businesses.More than a month after the blast, a ...
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Navalny’s team says nerve agent used to poison him found on hotel room water bottle

By PATRICK REEVELL, ABC News(MOSCOW) -- Traces of the Novichok nerve agent allegedly used to poison Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny were found in a water bottle in his hotel room in the Siberian city of Tomsk, where he was ...
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Lawmakers call for Russia to release jailed ex-US Marine

By PATRICK REEVELL, ABC News(MOSCOW) -- Top members of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs have submitted a resolution demanding that Russia free Trevor Reed, a former U.S. Marine jailed by the country who U.S. officials suspect is being used ...
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