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CHINA-INDIA China lashed out at India for hosting the Dalai Lama near their disputed border, warning yesterday that the Tibetan spiritual leader’s visit has touched on the political

David Letterman’s mom, who became unlikely star, dies at 95

David Letterman’s mother Dorothy Mengering, a Midwestern homemaker who became an unlikely celebrity in her 70s as she baked mystery pies and covered the Olympics for her son’s late-night

Pulitzer | Prizes Whitehead wins fiction, Chinese composer takes music award

Colson Whitehead’s “The Underground Railroad,” his celebrated novel about an escaped slave that combined liberating imagination and brutal reality, has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

G-7 ministers appeal to Russia on Syria but reject sanctions

The Group of Seven industrialized nations yesterday urged Russia to pressure the Syrian government to end the six-year civil war, but rejected a British call to impose new

Offbeat | Children’s Easter egg hunt nixed because of unruly parents

A Pennsylvania volunteer fire company says it has canceled this year’s Easter egg hunt for children because of “unruly” parents in past years. The Norco Fire Company in

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CHINA-US President Donald Trump says he tried to persuade China’s leader last week to pressure North Korea to stop its nuclear program in exchange for a good trade

The Buzz | Churches in southern Egypt will not celebrate Easter

Egyptian churches, in the southern city of Minya, said yersterday that they will not hold Easter celebrations next Saturday in mourning for 45 Coptic Christians killed this week

United passenger’s removal sparks outrage in China

Images of a bloodied man being forcibly removed from a United Airlines flight in Chicago drew widespread condemnation in China, where state media fueled the public’s

G-7 ministers aim to press Russia to stop backing Assad

Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven industrialized nations were gathering in Italy yesterday for a meeting given urgency by the chemical attack in Syria and the

UN refugee agency urges EU not to return migrants to Hungary

The U.N. refugee agency yesterday took the rare step of urging European Union members to suspend returns of asylum-seekers to their partner, Hungary, faulting its new policy

Offbeat | Riga mayor talks about potholes, interrupted by cat

The mayor of Latvia’s capital, Riga, was talking about the city’s efforts to fix potholes during his weekly online question-and-answer show when he got interrupted ...

This Day in History | 1957 – Britain agrees to Singapore self-rule

The British government is to allow the island colony of Singapore to govern itself under a new constitution agreed in London. The Singapore Constitutional

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SYRIA U.S. Senator John McCain has accused Russia of having cooperated with Syria in a chemical weapons attack that has killed more than 80 people, including more than

Venezuela | Thousands pour into Caracas streets in anti-Maduro protest

Venezuela’s government fired tear gas and rubber bullets at some of the thousands of opponents of President Nicolas Maduro who poured into the streets of Caracas Saturday

Egypt | Church bombings kill 37, wound dozens

Bombs tore through two Egyptian churches in different cities as worshippers were marking Palm Sunday, killing at least 37 people and wounding around 100 in an

Lithium reviving centuries-old Czech mining tradition

A surge in global use of lithium, a key component in electric batteries, is leading to the revival of a centuries-long mining tradition in the Czech Republic’s Ore

This Day in History | 1998 – Northern Ireland peace deal reached

The Northern Ireland peace talks have ended with an historic agreement. The accord - dubbed the Good Friday Agreement - was reached after nearly two years

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PHILIPPINES Back-to-back earthquakes cracked small buildings and blocked roads with minor landslides Saturday in a Philippine resort province south of Manila where jittery tourists left and patients were

The Buzz | Spanish hotel trashed by 1,200 partying Portuguese teens

Spanish police say 1,200 Portuguese students have caused tens of thousands of euros in damages during a stay at a hotel on the country’s southern coast. A

Nature | ‘BioBlitz’ scientists to survey California desert valley

Scientists will fan out across a California desert valley this weekend to take an inventory of everything there that flies, hops, runs, swims or grows in

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