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Eighteen people have been killed in three separate incidents Sunday as Indian troops conducted counterinsurgency operations in Indian Kashmir. State police director general S.P. Vaid said 11 militants, three soldiers and four civilians died during clashes. He said the militants killed in the operation belonged to the Hizbul Mujahideen (Party of Soldiers) and Lashkar-e-Tayaba (Army …
U.S. President Donald Trump called for tougher immigration laws Sunday, vowing that there would be no deal for DACA recipients. “Border Patrol Agents are not allowed to properly do their job at the Border because of ridiculous liberal (Democrat) laws like Catch & Release,” Trump wrote on Twitter Sunday morning. “Getting more dangerous. “Caravans” coming. …
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A final deal has been reached for Syrian rebel fighters and their families to leave the last opposition-held area of eastern Ghouta, paving the way for the government to recapture all of the one-time rebel enclave near Damascus. …
South Korea and the United States kicked off their annual joint military exercises Sunday after they were delayed about a month for the Winter Olympics and to help create conditions for a resumption of talks between North and South Korea. The Foal Eagle field exercise, which usually involves combined ground, air, naval and special operations …
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Russian boxer Aleksandr Povetkin put himself in place for another heavyweight world title fight after he knocked out Britain’s David Price in the fifth round of a WBA match. …
More than 41,000 rebels and their family members have left eastern Ghouta as Syrian government forces and their allies consolidate power in the region, a Russian general has said. …
Pope Francis on Saturday led an Easter vigil service, baptizing eight adults, including a formerly undocumented Nigerian migrant beggar who became a hero when he disarmed an Italian thief wielding a cleaver. The baptism took place during a long Holy Saturday, or Easter eve, Mass for 10,000 people in St. Peter’s Basilica. The church, the largest in Christendom, was …
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Students at a predominantly black university in Washington, D.C., continued their sit-in at the school’s administration building Saturday. The sit-in at Howard University began after news that six university employees had been fired for “gross misconduct and neglect of duties.” Students learned an investigation found financial aid funds for students in need had been misappropriated, …
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Turkey’s president has slammed Kosovo’s prime minister for being critical of the arrest and deportation of six Turkish citizens with ties to schools linked to the Fethullah Gulen movement that Ankara blames for a failed 2016 coup. …
Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai has visited her hometown in Pakistan for the first time since she was shot by Taliban militants in 2012. …
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for an “independent and transparent investigation” into the deadly clashes along the Israel-Gaza border Friday that killed at least 15 Palestinians and injured about 1,400 others, including more than 750 injured by live fire. The U.N. Security Council held an emergency meeting Friday to discuss the unraveling situation in …
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Space scientists keeping track of dysfunctional space equipment are closely monitoring the expected re-entry of the largest piece of space junk so far. The Chinese space station Tiangong 1 will re-enter the atmosphere Sunday, but experts say it will be traveling so fast that the resulting friction will cause it to disintegrate and burn. But …
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The Easter holiday is synonymous with symbols of spring, and for kids, it means candy in their Easter baskets. From Washington, VOA’s Jill Craig finds out how much sales increase over the holiday, and what the best sellers are. …
Russian authorities have declared a “high alert” and are distributing masks and respirators to residents of a town outside Moscow where toxic fumes have leaked from a landfill site. …
Russia has served expulsion notices to a slew of staff in Western embassies in a diplomatic tit-for-tat ignited by the poisoning of an ex-spy in Britain. …
Pilgrims from around the world packed into the narrow cobblestone alleyways of the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem’s Old City to take part in the traditional Good Friday procession. Singing hymns and reading passages from the Bible, they retraced the footsteps of Jesus to the 14 Stations of the Cross. “Oh, it’s an honor to be …
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A Gaza Health Ministry spokesman said a Palestinian farmer was killed and another man wounded early Friday by Israeli tank shelling near the town of Khan Yunis, just hours ahead of mass protests. Witnesses said the farmer was working his land when the shell hit, according to the French News Agency. An Israeli …
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Russia says it successfully deployed a new military satellite into orbit. Video issued by the Russian defense ministry showed a Soyuz-2.1V rocket carrying the satellite blasting off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on March 29. Russia did not say what the purpose of the new military satellite would be. …
Russian Foreign Ministry is summoning envoys of foreign states that expelled Russian diplomats to hand them notes of protest and inform them of Russia’s retaliatory measures. The Ambassador of Germany was seen leaving the Russian Foreign Ministry Friday, while the ambassadors of the Netherlands, Ukraine, France, Italy and Poland were seen arriving. The United States …
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The Czech Justice Ministry has announced that an alleged Russian hacker wanted by both Washington and Moscow has been extradited to the United States. …
Kosovar Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj has dismissed the interior minister and the secret-service chief after the arrest and deportation to Turkey of six Turkish nationals a day earlier. …
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A U.S. federal judge has rejected a bid by a lawyer for adult film actress Stormy Daniels to question President Donald Trump under oath about their alleged 2006 affair and a $130,000 hush payment to her just before the 2016 election to keep quiet about the alleged liaison. Judge James Otero said the request for …
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Ankara has launched new attacks and threats aimed at Washington for ongoing U.S. support of the Syrian-Kurdish militia, the YPG. The latest verbal salvo comes as diplomatic talks between the NATO allies continue to resolve their worst crisis in bilateral relations. The YPG is a key ally in Washington’s war against Islamic State militants, but …
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