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  • NewsAFP

    PM Modi votes as India's marathon election heats up

    Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi cast his ballot Tuesday in India's ongoing general election after giving several inflammatory campaign speeches accused of targeting minority Muslims.Modi's brand of Hindu-nationalist politics has in turn made India's 220-million-plus Muslim population increasingly anxious about their future in the country. 

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  • PoliticsThe Independent

    Trump trial live: Prosecutors need two more weeks to make case as judge threatens jail over gag order breaches

    Former president back in Manhattan Criminal Court for further witness testimony

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  • NewsThe Independent

    Israel-Gaza - live: IDF announces strikes in eastern Rafah as Hamas accepts Gaza ceasefire plan

    Hamas accepted an Egyptian-Qatari brokered ceasefire deal which Israel rejected as ‘unacceptable’

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  • NewsFrance 24

    Putin's presidential inauguration set to prolong his two decades in power

    Russian President Vladimir Putin will be sworn into office at a lavish ceremony in the Kremlin on Tuesday, embarking on a record-breaking fifth term with more power than ever before. The 71-year-old Kremlin chief has ruled Russia since the turn of the century, securing a fresh six-year mandate in March after winning presidential elections devoid of all opposition.The inauguration will be broadcast live on most major Russian television channels from around midday (0900 GMT), when a luxury motorca

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  • NewsSky News

    Prospect of ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas soon evaporated

    The prospect of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, which had seemed possible during the weekend, ebbed away as Sunday turned to Monday. When President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke by phone late on Monday morning, hope for a deal, being hashed out thousands of miles away in the Qatari capital, Doha, seemed slim. Instead the focus was on what Mr Netanyahu planned to do with the troops he had ordered to amass in southern Israel just over the Israeli border fence f

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  • NewsThe Guardian

    Hundreds protest across Israel calling for Netanyahu to accept ceasefire deal

    Police cleared a large protest in Tel Aviv, where hundreds were urging Benjamin Netanyahu to accept the terms of a Hamas truce deal in Gaza

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  • NewsThe Guardian

    Can Modi finally win over the southern states and reshape India’s electoral map?

    Making a breakthrough in Tamil Nadu and Kerala is crucial to the BJP’s ambitions to gain an even larger parliamentary majority – but it won’t be easy

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