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Fighters from Myanmar civil war aggravate bitter ethnic conflict in India

IMPHAL (India), Dec 20 (Reuters): Indian militant groups that took refuge in Myanmar and fought in its civil war have been streaming back across the border to Manipur state this year, Indian security officers said, inflaming the bitter 19-month ethnic conflict there with weapons and battle-hardened cadres.This has led to...

Rahul Gandhi faces police probe over parliament scuffle

NEW DELHI, Dec 20 (Reuters): India's Rahul Gandhi is under police investigation over a scuffle between opposition members of parliament and those from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, which injured two lawmakers, police said on Friday.Police were responding to a BJP complaint accusing Gandhi, the opposition leader,...

Biden to visit Italy during final days in office

WASHINGTON, Dec 20 (AFP): US President Joe Biden will travel to Italy next month to meet separately with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Pope Francis, the White House said Thursday, in what will likely be his last overseas trip before leaving office.The January 9-12 visit is aimed at strengthening US-Italy...

World must 're-evaluate' sanctions to help rebuild Syria: UN

GENEVA, Dec 20 (AFP): International sanctions imposed on Syria must be reassessed to help the country rebuild following the ousting of president Bashar al-Assad, the head of the UN's migration agency said Friday. "So to rebuild the situation, there will be a need to re-evaluate those sanctions," International Organization for...

Australian research sees bird flu fatal for vast majority of pregnant women

SYDNEY, Dec 20 (Xinhua): Contracting bird flu is fatal for a vast majority of pregnant women, an Australian research has said.The research, which was published on Friday by the Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) in Melbourne, systematically reviewed over 1,500 research papers and examined 30 reported cases of women who...

Sri Lanka navy rescues boat of 100 Rohingya refugees

COLOMBO, Dec 20 (AFP): Sri Lanka's navy said Friday it had rescued 102 Rohingya refugees from war-torn Myanmar adrift in a fishing trawler off the Indian Ocean island nation, bringing them safely to port.The group, including 25 children, were taken to Sri Lanka's eastern port of Trincomalee, a navy spokesman...

US Congress scrambles to try to avert looming shutdown after Trump demand rejected

WASHINGTON, Dec 20 (Reuters): The US Congress was scrambling to avert a partial government shutdown on Friday, hours after more than three dozen Republicans rejected a demand by President-elect Donald Trump to use the measure to lift the nation's debt ceiling.Republican House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson was trying to...

Palestinians accuse Israeli settlers of mosque arson in West Bank

NABLUS, Dec 20 (AFP): Palestinian officials reported on Friday that Israeli settlers had set fire to a mosque in the occupied West Bank, an act Israeli police said was under investigation.According to Abdallah Kamil, the governor of Salfit, the attack targeted the Bir al-Walidain mosque in the village of Marda."A...

Over 780 civilians killed in paramilitary siege in Sudan: UN

GENEVA, Dec 20 (AFP): At least 782 civilians have been killed and more than 1,100 wounded in a months-long paramilitary siege of the capital of Sudan's North Darfur, a United Nations report said Friday.Since April of last year, Sudan has been locked in a brutal conflict between the army, led...