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Israeli army bombs police and security buildings; Gaza authorities say 43 Palestinians killed, including 13 children.
Death toll surges past a grim milestone as the pandemic rages across the vast country of 1.35 billion people.
Robert Aaron Long, accused of killing eight, including six women of Asian descent, was indicted on murder charges.
At least seven children and two adults killed in attack in Kazan, Tatarstan’s capital city, local official says.
Country’s health ministry says a third of those diagnosed with COVID-19 in past week had had both doses of vaccine.
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