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Americas · June 24, 2021 · 11:14 PM UTCHundreds more unmarked graves found at erstwhile Canadian residential school

An indigenous group in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan on Thursday said it had found the unmarked graves of an estimated 751 people at a now-defunct Catholic residential school, just weeks after a similar, smaller discovery rocked the country.

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One of Haiti's most powerful gang leaders warned this week he was launching a revolution against the country's business and political elites, signaling a likely further escalation of violence in the impoverished Caribbean nation.

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AmericasVenezuela receives first shipment of Cuban coronavirus vaccine
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EuropePolish parliament passes bill to limit WW2 property restitution claims

Poland's parliament late on Thursday passed a draft bill which is expected to make it harder for Jews to recover property seized by Nazi German occupiers and kept by postwar communist rulers, in a move set to fuel tensions with Israel and the United States.