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India says it has struck militants across Kashmir frontier
NEW DELHI - India said Thursday it carried out “surgical strikes” against militants across the highly militarized frontier that divides the Kashmir region between India and Pakistan, in an...
Sep 29, 2016
75,000 could starve to death in Nigeria after Boko Haram: UN
LAGOS, Nigeria - As many as 75,000 children will die over the next year in famine-like conditions created by Boko Haram if donors don’t respond quickly, the U.N. Children’s Fund is warning...
Sep 29, 2016

UN warns of 'merciless abyss' in besieged eastern Aleppo
BEIRUT - Syrian government forces continued their push into rebel-held districts of Aleppo on Thursday as international officials issued dire warnings of an ongoing humanitarian disaster in Syria̵...
Sep 29, 2016
Family of slain black man wants police to release full video
EL CAJON, Calif. - Angry protests flared again Thursday night after a family attorney charged that an unarmed black man was unjustly killed by San Diego police, and that officials were trying to sway ...
Sep 29, 2016

WHY IT MATTERS: Russia looms as key issue for United States
WASHINGTON - THE ISSUE: Russia cannot be ignored. Since the end of the Cold War, Russia has never posed such a vexing problem to U.S. policymakers as it does now. From Eastern Europe to the Middle Eas...
Sep 29, 2016

Brain freeze? Gary Johnson can't name favourite world leader
WASHINGTON - Call it a brain freeze or another “Aleppo moment,” but Gary Johnson has stumbled again in his quixotic presidential campaign. The third-party candidate, in a television appear...
Sep 29, 2016

Clinton vows to retaliate against foreign hackers
WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton is vowing anew to respond to foreign hacking the same as any other attack against the United States. When she openly blamed Russia for recent U.S. cyber break-ins, Donald ...
Sep 29, 2016

Cuba rejects Trump's call for negotiations on human rights
HAVANA - A top Cuban diplomat on Wednesday rejected Donald Trump’s threat to undo detente with Cuba unless the single-party government meets the Republican presidential candidate’s demands...
Sep 29, 2016
US defence chief calls alliance with Philippines 'ironclad'
HANOI, Vietnam - U.S. Defence Secretary Ash Carter has described the U.S.-Philippines alliance as ironclad, one day after the Philippine president said joint military exercises with the U.S. would end...
Sep 29, 2016
Hurricane Matthew strengthens brushing by Caribbean islands
ORANJESTAD, Aruba - People in the Dutch Caribbean islands reinforced their homes and stocked up on emergency supplies Thursday as a strengthening Hurricane Matthew took a rare turn through the souther...
Sep 29, 2016