An influential league of California cities is opposing a bill that would allow people to rest in public areas — a position that homeless activists argue is consistent with the group’s history of supporting abuses against marginalized groups. The Right …

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In a rare prisoner swap, a hard-line Syrian rebel group has released 25 women and children to Syrian government fighters in exchange for one of their captive commanders, a monitoring group said on Monday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights …

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Al-Shabab gunmen attacked a college campus in the town of Garissa in northeast Kenya on Thursday, killing at least 147 people in a bloody attack on students, authorities said. Masked men burst into the Garissa University College in the early …

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Machete-wielding assailants hacked to death a secular blogger in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka on Monday, the second attack in five weeks on a critic of religion in the South Asian nation. Authorities said Washiqur Rahman was killed on a busy …

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