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World news in one minute: Find out what happened around the world on 26 July

Monday, 27 July 2015, 07:50 Last update: about 10 years ago

SATAN STATUE-DETROIT

DETROIT — Several hundred people have attended a Mass at a Detroit Catholic church to protest an 8½-foot (2.6-meter)-tall bronze statue of Satan that hundreds of people also lined up to see. 

COLOMBIA-MASS GRAVE

MEDELLIN, Colombia — Authorities begin unearthing a landfill on Monday looking for dozens of people missing since right-wing militias took control of a slum in 2002 — what rights activists say could be Colombia's biggest mass grave. .

PLANNED PARENTHOOD

WASHINGTON — The president of Planned Parenthood says her organization's clinics never adjust the abortion procedure to better preserve fetal organs for medical research and that its charges cover only the cost of transmission to researchers. 

SENATE

WASHINGTON — Senior Senate Republicans line to rebuke Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz for attacking Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, an extraordinary display of intraparty division played out live on the Senate floor. 

WOMAN DEAD IN JAIL-WALLER COUNTY

HEMPSTEAD, Texas — The Texas county where a black woman died in jail after a traffic stop by a white state trooper has a long history of racial strife. 

SAN FRANCISCO-SODA WARNING

SAN FRANCISCO — The American Beverage Association has sued the city of San Francisco, claiming new legislation requiring health warning labels on sugary beverages and prohibiting advertisements of them on city property is unconstitutional.

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