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Modi visits Indian-controlled Kashmir amid tight security

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Himalayan Kashmir for his first public event on Sunday since New Delhi stripped the disputed region’s semi-autonomy and took direct control in 2019.Modi arrived amid massive security and is scheduled to speak in a public event and review devel...

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Tour boat in Mexico hits whale or whale shark, 6 injured

A small Mexican tour boat hit a whale or a whale shark off the Baja California Sur coastal city of La Paz, injuring a half dozen people, authorities said Saturday.The state civil defense office posted a video clip showing the open boat, which had an awning, hit something in the open water. The boat ...

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Militants in Afghanistan strike Pakistan army post, kill 3

Militants in Afghanistan fired heavy weapons across the border into a Pakistani military outpost overnight, killing three personnel, the army said Saturday, in the latest violence to rattle the volatile region.A firefight ensued with the militants firing toward the army post in Pakistan's rugged...

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UN chief to meet with Putin, Zelenskyy to press for peace

UN Secretary-General António Guterres is set to meet separately with the presidents of Russia and Ukraine next week to make urgent, face-to-face pleas for peace, the world body said Friday.Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that Guterres is to meet Tuesday with Russian Foreign Minister...

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Death toll in Afghan mosque bombing rises to 33: Taliban

A Taliban official says a bombing at a mosque and religious school in northern Afghanistan on Friday killed at least 33 people, including students of a religious school.Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban’s deputy culture and information minister, said the bombing in the town of Imam Saheb, in Kun...

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Aid group says tribal violence kills 8 in Sudan’s Darfur

Tribal violence between Arabs and non-Arabs in Sudan’s war-ravaged Darfur region killed at least 8 people including a woman and a child, an aid worker and activists said Saturday. The clashes erupted Thursday with the killing of two people by an unknown assailant around the Kreinik area o...

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Many flights canceled at Amsterdam’s airport due to strike

Dozens of flights were canceled or delayed Saturday at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport as a group of KLM baggage handlers went on strike on one of the busiest days of the year at the major aviation hub to protest working conditions and staff shortages. The strike by KLM baggage handlers coinci...

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Leaders of 2 Koreas exchange letters of hope amid tensions

The leaders of the rival Koreas exchanged letters expressing hope for improved bilateral relations, which plummeted in the past three years amid a freeze in nuclear negotiations and North Korea’s accelerating weapons development.North Korea’s state media said leader Kim Jong Un on Wednes...

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Israeli police storm Jerusalem holy site after rock-throwing

Israeli police in full riot gear stormed a sensitive Jerusalem holy site sacred to Jews and Muslims on Friday after Palestinian youths hurled stones at a gate where they were stationed.The renewed violence at the site, which is sacred to Jews and Muslims, came despite Israel temporarily halting Jewi...

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African wildlife, coasts suffer effects of flooding, drought

Devastating floods in South Africa this week, as well as other extreme weather events across the continent linked to human-caused climate change, are putting marine and terrestrial wildlife species at risk, according to biodiversity experts.Africa has already faced several climate-related woes in th...

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Global finance meeting focuses on war-driven food insecurity

Global finance leaders are putting the growing crisis over food insecurity and skyrocketing food prices at center stage as members of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank meet in Washington and grapple with the effects of Russia’s operation in Ukraine.Treasury Secretary Janet Yel...

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Blasts near Kabul schools kill at least 6 civilians, hurt 17

Explosions targeting educational institutions killed at least six people, including students, and injured 17 Tuesday in a mostly Shiite neighborhood of Afghanistan’s capital city, police said.The blasts, which occurred in rapid succession, were being investigated and more casualties were feare...

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Potential jurors for Kardashians air disdain to their faces

Talking trash about the Kardashians is a common pastime for many ordinary Americans. On Monday, a few got to do it to their faces.Kim Kardashian, her mother Kris Jenner and her sisters Khloe Kardashian and Kylie Jenner all sat in the front row of a Los Angeles courtroom as prospective jurors aired t...

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Turkey launches new ground, air offensive in northern Iraq

Turkey has launched a new ground and air cross-border offensive against Kurdish militants in northern Iraq,  that has left at least 19 suspected Kurdish rebels dead and has wounded at least four Turkish soldiers, Turkey’s defense minister said Monday.Turkish jets and artillery struck susp...

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2 minors dead, 8 wounded in shooting at Pittsburgh party

Shots fired at a house party in Pittsburgh early Sunday killed two 17-year-olds and wounded at least eight other people, police said.Hundreds of people — the “vast majority” of them minors — had gathered at a short-term rental property when some kind of altercation occurred a...

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Sri Lankan protesters demand justice for 2019 Easter attacks

Sri Lankans protesting for days near the president’s office criticized a lack of progress in finding those responsible for the deaths of more than 260 people in Islamic State-inspired bombings on Easter Sunday three years ago, piling pressure on the government already embroiled in a deep econo...

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Police arrest suspect in South Carolina mall shooting

Police have arrested a suspect in connection with a shooting at a busy shopping mall in South Carolina’s capital on Saturday that left 14 people injured.Columbia Police Chief W.H. “Skip” Holbrook said 22-year-old Jewayne M. Price, who was one of three people initially detained by l...

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Palestinians in Jenin evoke painful past as violence flares

The journey of the Palestinian who opened fire at a street-side bar in Tel Aviv last week, killing three young Israeli men and sending the city into lockdown, began a two-hour drive away in an impoverished refugee camp deep inside the occupied West Bank.Twenty years after Jenin saw one of the bigges...

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5,000 under evacuation orders as New Mexico wildfire rages

Douglas Siddens’ mother was among those who made it out with just the clothes on her back when a deadly, wind-fueled wildfire ripped through a mountain community in southern New Mexico.The RV park where she lived was reduced to “metal frame rails and steel wheels,” said Siddens, wh...

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Rwanda flights to start in weeks; critics slam plan: UK

The British government said Friday that it plans to start putting asylum-seekers on one-way flights to Rwanda within weeks, as it defended a deal that has outraged refugee groups and humanitarian organizations.Britain and Rwanda announced Thursday that they had struck an agreement that will see some...