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US Calls for Calm After Iraqi Forces Enter Kirkuk
Thousands of people fled the city ahead of the Iraqi advance.
The US State Department has called for calm after Iraqi government forces seized the northern city of Kirkuk and nearby oil fields from Kurdish control; more than a thousand people have taken part in a vigil in Malta for a journalist murdered on Monday by a powerful car bomb; wildfires in Portugal are now known to have killed at least thirty-six people.
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