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Good Friday Agreement is a rare success story of 1990s U.S. diplomacy

Washington Post The 25th anniversary of the pact is a reminder of the relative failure of two other Clinton-era diplomatic agreements in the Middle East and the Balkans. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/11/good-friday-agreement-northern-ireland-diplomacy-united-states/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

India residents try to save a river, officials deny problems

Washington Post Eloor, a small island on the Periyar River in southern India, used to have rich farmland and be teeming with fish https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/10/india-pollution-river-biodiversity-chemicals/c847d3bc-d810-11ed-aebd-3fd2ac4c460a_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

Colombian who made racist comments to VP will be sentenced

Washington Post A 62-year-old woman has been convicted of discrimination and harassment on for making racist comments about Colombia’s first Black vice president during an antigovernment protest last year https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/10/colombia-vice-president-racism/7e0b9002-d80d-11ed-aebd-3fd2ac4c460a_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

Lebanon still proxy battleground, 50 years after Israel raid

Washington Post It was a cold night 50 years ago when an Israeli commando team led by a man disguised as a woman infiltrated a posh Beirut neighborhood and shot and killed three top officials from the Palestine Liberation Organization in their apartments https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/10/lebanon-israel-plo-beirut-ehud-barak/849c75f4-d80c-11ed-aebd-3fd2ac4c460a_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

The key countries and revelations from the Pentagon document leak

Washington Post The leaked documents contain references to countries all over the world, ranging from China to Haiti. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/10/pentagon-document-leak-russia-china-israel/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

Egypt planned to covertly send 40,000 rockets to Russia: report

Fox News Egyptian President Abdel Fatah el-Sisi hatched a plan with his top aides to produce and ship up to 40,000 rockets to Russia, which has depleted its supply of ammunition during the 13-month invasion of Ukraine, according to leaked U.S. intelligence documents obtained by the Washington Post. The top secret documents are part of…

US designates Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich as ‘wrongfully detained’ by Russia

Fox News The State Department designated Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich as “wrongfully detained” by Russian authorities on Monday, which will allow the U.S. officials to work collaboratively across agencies to secure his release. “Journalism is not a crime. We condemn the Kremlin’s continued repression of independent voices in Russia, and its ongoing war against…

Mexico charges 4 soldiers with killings in Nuevo Laredo

Washington Post Mexican prosecutors formally presented homicide charges against four soldiers implicated in the Feb. 26 shooting deaths of five men in the border city of Nuevo Laredo https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/10/nuevo-laredo-mexican-army-killings/cfa5fb76-d7f6-11ed-aebd-3fd2ac4c460a_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

Egypt secretly planned to supply rockets to Russia, leaked U.S. document says

Washington Post President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi in February planned to produce 40,000 rockets for Russia and instructed officials to keep production and shipment secret “to avoid problems with the West.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/04/10/egypt-weapons-russia/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

Death toll rises to 5 in French building explosion

Fox News Three bodies were found Monday in the rubble following an explosion that collapsed a building in the southern French city of Marseille, bringing the confirmed death toll to five as rescuers continued searching for three more people who are unaccounted-for. Two other bodies had previously been found overnight. The judicial authority will proceed…