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Tasman Keith, whose debut album A Colour Undone released July 8, 2022.

Tasman Keith didn't come here to point fingers

6:12pm July 08, 2022

The First Nations rapper comes from "a place of understanding [that] at the end of the day everybody is human and we all have a lack of knowledge that we can expand on." His debut album is out today.

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Millions use Rogers for cellular, cable and internet services across Canada.

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A major internet outage in Canada disrupts ATMs and 911 services

5:55pm July 08, 2022

by Shauneen Miranda

Rogers, a leading telecom provider, suffered an outage Friday, creating disruptions to internet, cellular and cable services throughout Canada. The company has millions of customers.

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Japan grapples with the killing of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

4:24pm July 08, 2022

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Motoko Rich of 'The New York Times' about the killing of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

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One man's efforts to lighten the spirits of displaced children in western Ukraine

4:24pm July 08, 2022

by Eleanor Beardsley

In a western Ukraine town that's refuge to people from the war in the east, a clown who is a refugee himself tries to keep up children's spirits.

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'CryptoQueen' Ruja Ignatova's international scheme landed her on FBI's Most Wanted

4:24pm July 08, 2022

by Amanda Aronczyk

There is a new name on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list — Ruja Ignatova, known as the CryptoQueen. It's a story of international fraud at a scale rarely seen.

An employee of the Yomiuri Shimbun distributes extra editions of the newspaper in Tokyo with reporting on the shooting of Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday.

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Abe's assassination shocks Japan, where gun control is strict and shootings are rare

4:09pm July 08, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

Japan, with famously strict laws, has among the world's lowest rates of gun ownership and gun violence. In 2018 there were just nine firearm deaths reported in Japan, compared with 39,740 in the U.S.

People in Tokyo watch TV news reporting Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot on Friday.

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Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is assassinated at a campaign rally

12:58pm July 08, 2022

by John Ruwitch

Shinzo Abe had been Japan's longest-serving prime minister and remained a force in politics after stepping down in 2020.

Itinerante, un trío que revive la música andina de Colombia

12:35pm July 08, 2022

by Betto Arcos

Tocada en tres instrumentos de cuerda, esta música fue la banda sonora del país desde principios del siglo XX hasta la década de 1940.

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe makes a speech before he was shot from behind by a man in Nara, a city in western Japan, on Friday.

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Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was killed. Here's what the scene was like

11:00am July 08, 2022

by Catie Dull

Here are photos from the scene when Japan's former leader, Shinzo Abe, was assassinated while giving a campaign speech.

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What Shinzo Abe's assassination means for Japan's political landscape

10:00am July 08, 2022

Leila Fadel speaks with James D.J. Brown, associate professor of political science at Temple University's Japan Campus, about the death of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

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