VATICAN CITY, Apr 01 (Agencies): Pope Francis on Sunday said he hoped talks towards easing longstanding tensions on the Korean peninsula will "advance harmony and peace" in the region."May those who are directly responsible act with wisdom and discernment to promote the good of the Korean people and to build...
Read moreMOSCOW, Apr 01 (AFP): Russian diplomats expelled from the United States arrived in Moscow on Sunday, with post-Cold War tensions peaking in the wake of a nerve agent attack on a former spy in Britain.A deepening crisis in ties between Russia and the West has over the past weeks seen...
Read moreSRINAGAR, Apr 01 (AFP): Indian forces have killed eight suspected militants in disputed Kashmir, police said Sunday, in some of the fiercest fighting this year in the restive Himalayan region.A civilian was also killed and four soldiers injured in the region divided between India and Pakistan but claimed in full...
Read moreKUWAIT CITY, Apr 01 (AFP): Fifteen oil workers, most of them from the Indian subcontinent, were killed Sunday in a head-on collision between two buses in southern Kuwait, officials said.Seven of those killed were Indian nationals, five were Egyptians and the other three from Pakistan, said Mohammed al-Basri of the...
Read moreJERUSALEM, Apr 01 (AFP): Israel rejected calls for an independent probe on Sunday after its soldiers killed 16 Palestinians and wounded hundreds more when a major demonstration led to clashes along the border with the Gaza Strip.Israel's military has faced questions from rights groups over its use of live fire...
Read moreNEW DELHI, Apr 01 (AFP): Two people were arrested after an angry mob beat to death a man accused of raping an eight-year-old girl on the rural outskirts of New Delhi, police said Sunday.The man identified as Jitendra was set upon by a crowd after being accused of assaulting the...
Read moreGovernor resigns over deadly mall fireMOSCOW, Apr 01: Aman Tuleyev (73), the longtime governor of Russia's Kemerovo region, resigned on Sunday over a big mall fire that killed at least 64 people, most of them children, in the city of Kemerovo. Aman Tuleyev said in a video posted on the...
Read moreWINDSOR: Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Dean of Windsor, David Conner (left) leaving with Britain's Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Britain's Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge (right) after attending the Easter Mattins Service at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle on Sunday — AFP
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