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Pakistanis living overseas sent $2.5 billion back home in March as country grapples with economic crisis

Fox News Pakistanis living abroad have sent $2.5 billion home in March, responding to the cash-strapped government’s appeal for more hard currency remittances, the country’s central bank said Monday. The sum represents a 27.4% increase compared to February and is the highest in seven past months, according to a tweet by the State Bank of…

India’s Indigenous groups allegedly driven out to save country’s dwindling tiger population

Fox News It was a celebratory atmosphere for officials gathered just hours away from several of India’s major tiger reserves in the southern city of Mysuru, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced Sunday to much applause that the country’s tiger population has steadily grown to over 3,000 since its flagship conservation program began 50 years…

Vladimir Kara-Murza condemns Russian treason case

Washington Post Longtime critic of President Vladimir Putin, facing up to 25 years in jail, tells judge that the war in Ukraine is the crime. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/10/vladimir-kara-murza-condemns-russian-treason-case/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

Ukraine rescue team brings back 31 children from Russia amid war

Fox News The head of a Ukrainian rescue organization said Saturday that the organization has brought back 31 children from Russia, where they had been taken during the war. Mykola Kuleba said at a news conference in Kyiv that the children were expected to arrive in the capital later in the day. Kuleba is the…

King Charles’s coronation: 2 carriages, 5 swords and a crown emoji

Washington Post The procession route will be shorter than the one Queen Elizabeth II took. But there will still be lots of pomp at the May 6 ceremonies. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/10/king-charles-coronation-procession-route/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

Ethiopia: Aid group says 2 workers killed amid violence

Washington Post An aid group says two of its workers have been killed in Ethiopia’s Amhara region https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/10/ethiopia-aid-workers-killed-amhara-violence/2f9b3f74-d7bf-11ed-aebd-3fd2ac4c460a_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

Taliban bans families, women from restaurants with gardens, green spaces in Afghanistan’s Herat province

Fox News The Taliban have banned families and women from restaurants with gardens or green spaces in Afghanistan’s northwestern Herat province, an official said Monday. The moves followed complaints from religious scholars and members of the public about mixing of genders in such places, he said. It was the latest in a slew of restrictions…

Dalai Lama says he was being ‘innocent and playful’ when asking young boy to ‘suck my tongue’

Fox News The Dalai Lama apologized for an interaction with a young boy on Monday after disturbed viewers saw the religious leader ask the boy to “suck my tongue.” The 87-year-old exiled religious leader of Tibet was holding a public event when the interaction occurred. His representatives say the boy approached the Dalai Lama and…

Dalai Lama apologizes for asking boy to ‘suck my tongue’ at temple

Washington Post His office says the 87-year-old Dalai Lama ‘often teases people he meets in an innocent and playful way’ but ‘regrets the incident’ caught on video. https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2023/04/10/dalai-lama-tongue-video/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

Pope Francis renews call to pray for peace on Easter Monday during celebration at St. Peter’s Square

Fox News Pope Francis renewed his call to pray for peace on Easter Monday, celebrating the Regina Coeli (Queen of the Heavens) prayer in St. Peter’s Square. At the end of the prayer, the pontiff recalled the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, which brought an end to decades of violent conflict between Catholics…