More than 1,300 Hajj pilgrims have died this year amid scorching heat, Saudi Arabia says

More than 1,300 pilgrims died amid scorching heat during this year's Hajj pilgrimage, Saudi Arabia's health minister said Sunday.

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In Paris, police step up encampment evictions ahead of the Olympics

Human rights groups say that in the approach to the Paris Olympics, police have stepped up evictions and deportations of people living and working on the streets of the capital and surrounding suburbs. They say law enforcement is targeting the city’s most vulnerable, in what some activists describe as social cleansing.

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