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At least 22 members of Indian security forces were killed in a central Indian state by Maoist fighters, in one of the bloodiest attacks by the extreme left-wing insurgent group this year, officials said on Sunday.
Security personnel belonging to the Central Reserve Police Force's elite CoBRA
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Sofia, Bulgaria
Reuters
Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borissov will have difficulty holding onto power, after a surge of votes in an election on Sunday for anti-establishment and anti-corruption parties that want him out.
Parallel count of the vote by pollsters forecast his centre-right GERB party to remain the
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Nairobi, Kenya
Reuters
Eritrean forces have started withdrawing from the Tigray region in northern Ethiopia, the Ethiopian Foreign Ministry said, following mounting reports blaming the Eritreans for human rights abuses including rape, looting and killings of civilians.
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed also described an upsurge of fighting in
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Caracas, Venezuela
Reuters
Venezuela will ask the United Nations to help remove landmines in its territory that it says have been deployed by "irregular" armed groups near the Colombian border, President Nicolas Maduro said on Sunday.
Maduro's government on Thursday said two soldiers were killed by a land
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Jakarta, Indonesia/Dili, East Timor
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Flash floods unleashed by torrential rains killed 41 people on the Indonesian island of Flores on Sunday, the disaster management agency BNPB said, and at least three more were reported killed in neighbouring East Timor.
At least 49 families were hit on Flores,
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Jerusalem, Israel
Reuters
With Jerusalem emerging from COVID-19 curbs and the faithful flocking there again, Easter Sunday brought a message of renewal from the traditional site of Jesus' death and resurrection.
Deserted a year ago after the pandemic hit, the Church of the Holy Sephulchre was attended by
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Vatican City
AP
Pope Francis in his traditional Easter Sunday address denounced as “scandalous” how armed conflicts continue to rage even as the coronavirus pandemic has triggered severe social and economic suffering and swollen the ranks of the poor.
Francis tempered his “Urbi et Orbi″ address (Latin for
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London, UK
Reuters
Thousands of demonstrators joined rallies across Britain on Saturday against a proposed law that would give police extra powers to curb protests, with some scuffles breaking out following a march in London.
The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts bill aims to toughen measures officers can
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Pemba, Mozambique
Reuters
Luisa Jose, a 52-year-old mother of five, says she came face-to-face with Islamic State-linked insurgents when they attacked the gas hub town of Palma in northern Mozambique 10 days ago.
"I was running to save my life...they were coming from every street," she told Reuters
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London
Reuters
A Roman Catholic church in London said on Saturday it would complain to the police after officers shut down a Good Friday service on the grounds it broke COVID-19 lockdown rules limiting the size of congregations.
Footage on social media showed two officers entering the Christ
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Paris, France
AP
The rector of Notre Dame said on Friday that the burned-out Paris cathedral and its esplanade could remain a building site for another “15 or 20 years".
Rector Patrick Chauvet spoke to The Associated Press following Good Friday ceremonies, including venerating the “Crown of Thorns”
