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United Nations Security Council must end selectivity in resolutions on disputes like Kashmir, says Pakistan
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United Nations Security Council must end selectivity in resolutions on disputes like Kashmir, says Pakistan
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In a first, Chinese air force lands strategic bombers on disputed South China Sea island
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British royal wedding: More than six million tweets on Prince Harry, Meghan Markle's big day; thrice more than William-Kate wedding
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UN Security Council must end selectivity in implementing resolutions on disputes: Pakistan
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May 19, 2018
Decision on H-4 visas holders not final until rulemaking process is completed: US Immigration Services
No decision about H-4 visas is final until the rulemaking process is completed, a senior US official has said. -
May 19, 2018
Chile sex abuse scandal: All Catholic bishops offer resignation to Pope Francis after Vatican summit
In an unprecedented move in the modern history of the Catholic church every bishop in Chile has offered his resignation to Pope Francis, in a case involving sex abuse scandal. -
May 19, 2018
Georgia shooting: One killed, another injured in incident outside Mount Zion High School in Clayton County
A 40-year-old woman was killed and at least two others were wounded in a shooting incident in United States' Clayton County in Georgia, police said. -
May 19, 2018
Afghanistan blasts: Eight killed, dozens injured in multiple explosions at Jalalabad sports stadium
As many as eight people were killed and dozens more wounded by multiple explosions at a sports stadium in the eastern city of Jalalabad late on Friday -
May 19, 2018
Texas school shooting: Ten killed, two critically injured in Santa Fe incident; student assailant arrested
Ten people, mostly students, were killed when a teenage classmate armed with a shotgun and a revolver opened fire in a Texas high school Friday, the latest deadly school shooting to hit the United States. -
May 19, 2018
Cuba plane crash: Cubana de Aviacion aircraft with 110 on board crashes near Havana; three rescued
A Cuban state airways plane with 110 on board crashed shortly after taking off from Havana Friday, leaving a mass of twisted and smoldering fuselage -
May 19, 2018
Blasts at Afghan sports stadium kill as many as eight - officials
JALALABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) - As many as eight people were killed and dozens more wounded by multiple explosions at a sports stadium in the eastern city of Jalalabad late on Friday night, officials said. The blasts occurred at a football stadium in the city that was hosting a cricket match at the start of the holy month of Ramadan, Sohrab Qaderi, a member of the provincial council said. -
May 19, 2018
Two weeks on, Hawaii residents look for 'normalcy' amid ash, lava
By Terray Sylvester PAHOA, Hawaii (Reuters) - Two weeks after fountains of lava and poisonous gas from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano forced hundreds of people to flee their homes in the middle of the night, things were only getting worse for residents on Friday following one of its largest eruptions and worst sulfur emissions. As Kilauea simmered on Friday, oozing lava from 22 fissures on its eastern flank, residents of Pahoa on the Big Island, some wearing ash masks, hunkered down in shelters and waited for an expected resumption of major eruptions -
May 19, 2018
Trump suggests FBI may have infiltrated his campaign
By John Walcott WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday escalated his attacks on the Justice Department, suggesting that the FBI may have planted or recruited an informant in his 2016 presidential campaign. Trump stopped short of accusing the FBI of spying on his campaign, instead citing unnamed reports that at least one FBI representative was "implanted" for political purposes into his campaign. -
May 19, 2018
Cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's bloc wins Iraq election
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A political bloc led by populist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, a long-time adversary of the United States who also opposes Iranian influence in Iraq, has won the country's parliamentary election, the electoral commission said on Saturday. Sadr himself cannot become prime minister as he did not run in the election, though his bloc's victory puts him in a position to have a strong say in negotiations. His bloc captured 54 parliamentary seats. -
May 19, 2018
Passenger plane crashes in Cuba, killing more than 100 people
By Sarah Marsh and Nelson Acosta HAVANA (Reuters) - More than 100 people were killed in a fiery crash of a Boeing 737 passenger plane in Cuba on Friday, with just three seriously injured survivors in hospital after being pulled from the wreckage, officials and state media said. The aircraft, on a domestic flight to Holguin in eastern Cuba, crashed shortly after taking off from Havana at 11 a.m -
May 19, 2018
Accused Texas high school gunman described as bullied loner in a trench coat
SANTA FE, Texas (Reuters) - The teen accused of killing 10 people in a mass shooting at his Texas high school on Friday was described by fellow students as a quiet loner who played football but kept to himself and was reportedly the victim of some bullying. -
May 19, 2018
U.S. accuses Maduro, Venezuelan party official of drug trade profiteering
By Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Friday accused Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and the No. -
May 19, 2018
Muslim leaders call for international protection force for Palestinians
By Ali Kucukgocmen and Tulay Karadeniz ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Muslim leaders called on Friday for an international force to be deployed to protect Palestinians after dozens of protesters were shot dead by Israeli forces on the Gaza border this week. At a special summit in Turkey convened by President Tayyip Erdogan, they also pledged to take "appropriate political (and) economic measures" against countries that followed the United States in moving their Israel embassies to contested Jerusalem from Tel Aviv. -
May 19, 2018
More than 100 killed in passenger plane crash in Cuba
By Sarah Marsh and Nelson Acosta HAVANA (Reuters) - More than 100 people were killed in a fiery crash of a Boeing 737 passenger plane in Cuba on Friday, with just three seriously injured survivors in hospital after being pulled from the wreckage, officials and state media said. The aircraft, on a domestic flight to Holguin in eastern Cuba, crashed shortly after taking off from Havana at 11 a.m. -
May 19, 2018
Chilean bishops offer mass resignation over sex abuse scandal
By Crispian Balmer and Aislinn Laing VATICAN CITY and SANTIAGO (Reuters) - In an unprecedented move, all of Chile's bishops offered to resign on Friday after attending a crisis meeting this week with Pope Francis about the cover-up of sexual abuse in the South American nation. Several victims invited by the pope to Rome earlier this month said they wanted all 34 bishops sacked and replaced by more moral candidates, and for the Vatican to extend punishment to others implicated in the scandal. -
May 19, 2018
More than 100 killed in passenger plane crash in Cuba - state TV
By Sarah Marsh and Nelson Acosta HAVANA (Reuters) - More than 100 people were killed in a fiery crash of a Boeing 737 passenger plane in Cuba on Friday, Cuban broadcaster CubaTV reported. There were three seriously injured survivors among the 114 passengers and crew, Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel said. -
May 19, 2018
Many feared dead, injured in passenger plane crash in Cuba
By Sarah Marsh and Nelson Acosta HAVANA (Reuters) - At least three people possibly survived a fiery crash of a Boeing 737 plane in Cuba on Friday in which a number of the 114 passengers and crew were feared dead or injured, Reuters witnesses and officials said. The aircraft on a domestic flight to Holguin had 105 passengers plus nine crew, Cuban state-run media reported, adding that there were five children on board. -
May 19, 2018
Texas teen charged with killing 10 in high school massacre
By Liz Hampton and Erwin Seba SANTA FE, Texas (Reuters) - Texas officials charged a 17-year-old student with murder in the shooting of 10 people, including fellow pupils, at his high school on Friday in an attack similar to the massacre at a Florida high school earlier this year. Students said a gunman, identified by law enforcement as Dimitrios Pagourtzis, opened fire in a classroom at Santa Fe High School shortly before 8 a.m. -
May 19, 2018
Exclusive - In run-up to Venezuelan vote, more soldiers dissent and desert
By Girish Gupta and Anggy Polanco CARACAS/SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela (Reuters) - Arrests for rebellion and desertion are rising sharply in Venezuela's armed forces, a mainstay of President Nicolas Maduro's Socialist government, amid discontent within the ranks at food shortages and dwindling salaries, according to documents and interviews with army personnel. Internal military documents reviewed by Reuters showed that the number of soldiers detained for treason, rebellion and desertion rose to 172 in the first four months of the year, up three-and-a-half times on the same period of 2017. Former military officials said the figures reflected a dramatic increase in the level of dissent within Venezuela's once-proud armed forces. -
May 19, 2018
Exclusive - Special Counsel subpoenas another Stone aide in Russia probe: sources
By Mark Hosenball and Nathan Layne WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller has subpoenaed a key assistant of long-time Donald Trump adviser Roger Stone, two people with knowledge of the matter said, the latest sign that Mueller's investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election is increasingly focussing on Stone
