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Death toll rises on the heels of deadly escalation between India and Pakistan

By Agence France-Presse Indian and Pakistani soldiers exchanged gunfire overnight in Kashmir, New Delhi said on Thursday, May 8, a day after the worst violence between the nuclear-armed rivals in two decades. Pakistani...

Colombia’s desert north feels the pain of Trump’s aid cuts

By Agence France-Presse For residents of Colombia's largest migrant camp, an already tough life is getting tougher thanks to Donald Trump's aid cuts. Eight months pregnant and 20 years old, Astrid lives on...

Black smoke: Cardinals fail to elect new pope on first try

By Agence France-Presse Thick black smoke emerged Wednesday from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel in a sign that cardinals had failed to elect a new head of the Catholic Church in...

Next pope faces ‘difficult, complex’ point in history, cardinals told

By Agence France-Presse The cardinal leading the last mass before a conclave to elect a new pope urged his peers Wednesday to choose someone able to protect the Catholic Church's unity and...

White smoke: Signalling a new pope down the ages

By Agence France-Presse When Catholic cardinals vote in the conclave, they then burn their ballots, sending up black smoke to signal no decision or white smoke to show they have chosen a...

Dozens killed as India, Pakistan clash in worst violence in decades

By Agence France-Presse India and Pakistan exchanged heavy artillery fire along their contested frontier on Wednesday after New Delhi launched deadly missile strikes on its arch-rival, in the worst violence between the...

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