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Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on October 9

Solomon Islands leader defends possible China security deal, calls backlash ‘very insulting’

By Hilary Whiteman, Caitlin McGee and Jessie Yeung, CNN The Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands on Tuesday defended the country’s possible security deal with China, hitting back at critics and calling their protests “very insulting.” The Pacific Island nation confirmed last week it would expand its security relationship with China — prompting alarm from

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Tyre Sampson

Teen who died at Florida amusement park was a football standout and a ‘gentle giant’ with a kind heart, loved ones say

By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN At the young age of 14, Tyre Sampson mapped out his future: play professional football and buy his mom a house, according to his father Yarnell Sampson. Those aspirations were cut short Thursday when Sampson died after falling from the FreeFall drop tower ride at ICON Park in Orlando, Florida. The

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Russian forces fire at an apartment building in Mariupol

Mariupol evacuation corridors ‘in the hands of the occupiers’ as mayor tells everyone to leave

By Nathan Hodge, CNN and Julia Presniakova in Lviv Ukrainian forces “continue to maintain circular defense” in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol, the Ukrainian general staff said early Tuesday, even as Russian forces consolidated control around the southeastern port city. On Monday, the mayor of Mariupol said that evacuation corridors had come largely under

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