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Paramedics assist an injured tourist at a hospital in Anantnag, south of Srinagar

No group has claimed responsibility for attack

'Like a storm': Witnesses describe deadly Kashmir attack

Top US diplomat Marco Rubio billed the plan as a major shake-up in the State Department

Rubio to cut positions, rights offices at US State Department

US President Donald Trump said he was united with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

'The call went very well'

Trump says 'on the same side of every issue' with Netanyahu after call

Israel continued to strike the Gaza Strip on Tuesday as negotiators sought again to secure a new ceasefire

Discussing 'new ideas'

Hamas team heads to Cairo for Gaza talks as Israel strikes kill 26

US Vice President JD Vance visited the Indian city of Jaipur on Tuesday

First tranche of a trade deal

US VP Vance says 'progress' in India trade talks

Trump's war against universities has seen him threaten to cut federal funding over policies meant to encourage diversity among students and staff

From Princeton to Brown

US universities issue letter condemning Trump's 'political interference'

The flag of the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) raised on a welcome arch in Lashio on April 9

Beijing-brokered deal

Myanmar rebels prepare to hand key city back to junta, China says

Pakistan launched a campaign to evict by the end of April more than 800,000 Afghans who have had their residence permits cancelled, including some who lived there for decades

Mass displacement

Fleeing Pakistan, Afghans rebuild from nothing

A bad apple in every bunch

EU assistant of Luxembourg MEP speaks out after French National Rally scandal

Morning Roundup

World mourns death of Pope Francis, smartphone ban in schools takes effect today, and PM Frieden in Japan

A nun visits the Mexico-US border fence in Tijuana

From South America to northern Mexico

Migrants mourn pope who fought for their rights

Pope Francis walks along with US President Donald Trump and US First Lady Melania Trump at the Vatican in May 2017

With Pope Francis death, Trump loses top moral critic

Pope Francis died aged 88

Collective grief

'Like orphans': Argentina mourns loss of papal son

Amid worldwide tributes to Pope Francis, Roman Catholic cardinals will meet Tuesday to start preparing his funeral and succession

Three-week transition

As world mourns, cardinals prepare pope's funeral

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the brief pause in hostilities on Saturday

Bilateral accusations

'I wanted it to work': Ukrainians disappointed by Easter truce

Harvard sues Trump over US federal funding cuts

A poster of the pope at his primary school, Nuestra Senora de la Misericordia School in Flores, Buenos Aires

'One isn't born a saint': School nuns remember Pope Francis as a boy

Haiti is battling crises on multiple fronts, with widespread gang-related violence, a shaky government and faltering economy

Between cholera and violence

Gang-ravaged Haiti nearing 'point of no return', UN warns

US President Donald Trump, pictured with Pope Francis at the Vatican in 2017, described the Argentine pontiff as a

Paying his respects

Trump says Pope Francis 'loved the world,' will attend funeral

Pete Hegseth (right) with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office

New allegations

Trump backs Pentagon chief despite new Signal chat scandal

Pope Francis, formerly Argentine cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio held membership of the San Lorenzo football club

Honorary club member

Messi, San Lorenzo bid farewell to football fan Pope Francis

Zelensky said the latest talks represented the 'right steps'

Pressing for halt

Ukraine delegation in London on Wednesday for peace talks: Zelensky

Russia resumes attacks on Ukraine after Easter truce

Brutal wave of attacks

Russia resumes attacks on Ukraine after Easter truce

Sri Lanka's Catholics marked the sixth anniversary of the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 279 people with a silent march and demands for justice

Went above and beyond

Sri Lanka recalls Pope Francis' compassion on Easter bombing anniversary

People pray in front of a portrait of Pope Francis after mass in Manila

Country in mourning

'The voice of god': Filipinos wrestle with death of Pope Francis

Francis was the first pope from the Americas and from the southern hemisphere

Champion of underdogs

Francis: radical leader who broke the papal mould

Jean-Claude Hollerich is a specialist in European-Asian cultural relations and German literature

Including Luxembourg’s Archbishop

The papabili – 15 potential successors to Pope Francis

Up to a million Catholics attended a mass given by Pope Francis in Kinshasa, DR Congo, in 2023

Energetic reformer

African leaders praise Pope Francis's 'legacy of compassion'

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