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Group: Iran arrests reporter amid unrest over tower collapse

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Iranian authorities arrested a local journalist at a ceremony for the victims of a building collapse in the southwestern city of Abadan, an international press watchdog reported on Wednesday as the death toll from the disaster rose to 37. The collapse has provoked a national outpouring of grief and outrage, adding to a series of mounting political and economic crises facing the Islamic Republic. With talks to restore Tehran's tattered nuclear deal still deadlocked, the Iranian currency tumbled in value on Wednesday to its lowest level ever against the dollar. Traditional mourning ceremonies commemorating those killed when the still under-construction tower at the Metropol Building in Abadan collapsed last week have repeatedly turned turn into angry protests against top officials, according to footage shared widely online and analyzed by The Associated Press. Authorities have responded by dispersing demonstrations and disrupting internet access in an ...
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Canada Indigenous leaders want pope to visit more locations

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TORONTO -- Indigenous leaders met with Canadian bishops on Wednesday and were told Pope Francis won't add more stops, as they requested, to his trip to Canada, where he will apologize in person for the abuse suffered by Indigenous people at the hands of the Catholic church. Pope Francis, who has been using a wheelchair because of a bad knee, will head to Canada on July 24 and visit Alberta, Quebec and Iqaluit, a small town in the far north. The pope leaves on July 29. “Three locations were picked. The survivors had no say in that. We weren’t asked,” said Ken Young, a former regional chief of the Assembly of First Nations in Manitoba. “We asked the bishops if that could change to include other venues, perhaps Kamloops, and that answer was no.” Richard Smith, the archbishop of Edmonton, said the Vatican made it clear the trip had to be short, considering the pope’s health. Recent Stories from ABC NewsTop Articles READ MORE Chicago officer critically hurt when shots firedinto car “T...
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