Young woman's horrific death in Delhi hit-and-run shocks India

NEW DELHI — The gruesome death of a 20-year-old woman in India's capital Delhi on 1 January has shocked the country.Media reports say the woman, who was an event manager, was returning from work

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Snow shortage in the Alps amid abnormally high temperatures

GENEVA — Much of the Alps does not look right for this time of the year, with sparse snowfall and unseasonably warm weather allowing grass to blanket the European mountain range.The lack of snowfall

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More than 60,000 pay final respects to Pope Benedict XVI

VATICAN CITY — Tens of thousands flocked to the Vatican on Monday to pay their final respects to Pope Benedict XVI, who died on Saturday at the age of 95.More than 60,000 people filed pasted the body

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UK health official warns of up 500 lives a week at risk amid NHS crisis

LONDON — A senior health official in the UK has warned that an ongoing crisis in the country’s National Health Service is putting up to 500 lives a week at risk.The President of the Royal College of

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Egypt retrieves green sarcophagus from United States

CAIRO — A recently recovered ancient Egyptian artefact known as the “Green Coffin” was returned on Monday from the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences in the United States after it had been smuggled

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Drone attacks continue on Kyiv and eastern Ukraine

KYIV — Air raid sirens sounded in Kyiv on Sunday night as the latest wave of drone and missile strikes from Russia continued.An attack which began shortly before midnight targeted critical infrastructure,

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Kim Jong Un calls for exponential increase in North Korea’s nuclear arsenal amid threats from South, US

SEOUL — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is calling for an “exponential increase” in his country’s nuclear weapons arsenal in response to what he claims are threats from South Korea and the United

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