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Philip Morris International began selling its IQOS heated tobacco device in Austin, Texas on Thursday for $60 a piece, an executive told Reuters, kicking off efforts by the world's largest cigarette maker to build a market for its flagship heated tobacco device in the United States.

Mia Love, the first Black Republican Congresswoman, has died after a three-year battle with brain cancer, her family wrote on social media. She was 49.

New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Monday he was available for a call with U.S. President Donald Trump but would do so "on our terms as a sovereign country".

Italy's Constitutional Court ruled on Friday that single people can adopt foreign children, overturning a 40-year-old law limiting adoption to married couples in a country historically marked by a traditionalist view of the family.

Italy's education ministry on Friday instructed schools to ban the growing use of gender-neutral symbols, saying they were unclear and flouted the rules of Italian grammar.

Last year was the deadliest on record for migrants, with nearly 9,000 people dying on perilous routes and one in 10 of those killed violently in incidents such as shootings, the U.N. migration agency said on Friday.

Britain beefs up travel warnings over US border enforcement

Around 400 teachers and students from EU schools in Brussels went on strike for half a day on Wednesday to protest against employment conditions for locally hired teachers, including the absence of union representation and a teachers' pension plan.

An earthquake of magnitude 6.0 struck Seram region in Indonesia on Tuesday, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said.

Entire families including women and children were killed in Syria's coastal region as part of a series of sectarian killings by rival groups, the U.N human rights office said on Tuesday.