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Police car firebombed during Northern Ireland protest

Fox News Demonstrators opposing the Good Friday peace agreement that ended three decades of hostilities in Northern Ireland firebombed a police car Monday in Londonderry during a march on the agreement’s 25th anniversary, officials said. NORTHERN IRELAND POLICE DISRUPT ALLEGED NEW IRA BOMB PLOT AHEAD OF BIDEN’S VISIT: REPORT Police called for calm and said…

What we’ve learned from the leaked Pentagon documents

Washington Post The sensitive subject matter and relative recency are major worries for U.S. officials. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/10/faq-leaked-pentagon-documents/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

Aid group says 2 workers killed in Ethiopia

Fox News Two aid workers with Catholic Relief Services were killed in Ethiopia’s Amhara region, the aid group said Monday, amid a wave of civil unrest linked to a government decision to dissolve the security forces of the country’s 11 federal states and fold them into the federal forces. Chuol Tongyik, a security manager, and…

Ivy league profs turn on each other after Columbia economist claims Ukraine war could be ‘next Afghanistan’

Fox News A group of hundreds of economics professors signed on to an open letter to Columbia University Professor Jeffery Sachs, arguing the Ivy League economist has pushed Russian propaganda in his writings about the war in Ukraine. “Your interventions present a distorted picture of the origins and intentions of the Russian invasion, mix facts…

Separatist Indian movement’s Twitter bots spread violent messages

Washington Post Backers of the Khalistani movement are using multiple networks of linked accounts to blast out videos and calls for action simultaneously, before Twitter’s reduced safety staff can respond. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/04/10/india-sikhs-punjab-khalistani-twitter/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

Israeli PM retracts firing of defense minister amid tension

Washington Post Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has retracted his decision to fire his defense minister over criticism of the government’s contentious plan to overhaul the judiciary https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/10/israel-netanyahu-judiciary/c373a53a-d7cc-11ed-aebd-3fd2ac4c460a_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

2 dead, 20 missing after migrant boat sinks off Tunisia

Fox News At least two migrants have died and about 20 others are missing after their boat sank over the weekend in the Mediterranean Sea between Tunisia and Italy, German aid group ResQship said on Monday. ResQship said its rescuers reached the area of the wreck on Saturday and found about 25 people in the…

Avalanche kills 6, including mountain guides in French Alps

Fox News The death toll from Sunday’s avalanche in the French Alps rose to six, including two mountain guides, local authorities said Monday. The prosecutor’s office in Bonneville, in the Haute-Savoie region, said the body of a sixth person was found after searches resumed on Monday morning. The prefecture of Haute-Savoie said one person was…

India asks other countries to increase COVID testing as cases climb

Fox News India’s federal government asked states to identify emergency hotspots and ramp up-testing for COVID-19, after the country recorded its highest daily case count since September, a Reuters tally showed on Friday. There were 6,050 new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, the federal health ministry said on Friday, continuing a sharp…

Slovenia’s emergency rescue teams save 4 French citizens who were stuck in bad weather in the Alps

Fox News Slovenia’s emergency mountain teams on Monday rescued four French citizens who were stuck in bad weather in the Alps, the rescue service said. The operation on the Skuta mountain came a day after dozens of emergency workers used helicopters to rescue another five people swept away by an avalanche in an Alpine region…