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Dozens of Migrants Drown Off Lampedusa, Italy

Sixty people survived after two boats with nearly 100 migrants capsized. The causes of the shipwrecks were not clear, Italian officials and U.N. agencies said. The death toll is likely to grow.

© Elio Deisderio/Associated Press

Italian Coast Guards officers carrying a body bag on the dock of the Lampedusa harbor on Wednesday.
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New Video Shows Uvalde School Chief Trying to Negotiate With Gunman

The video, part of a trove of materials that authorities had refused to release, shows the minutes in which a commander tried to talk to a gunman barricaded in a room with dozens of children.

© Tamir Kalifa for The New York Times

A makeshift memorial outside Robb Elementary School, the site of the mass shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, in 2022.
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