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A top Maoist leader has been killed fighting with Indian security forces in the central state of Chhattisgarh. Nambala Keshava Rao, who is also known by several alias, including Basavaraju, was among 27 rebels killed, Indian Home Minister Amit Shah said. One police officer was also reported to have...

Britain signed an agreement handing sovereignty over the contested and strategically located Chagos Islands to Mauritius, a move the government says ensures the future of a U.S.-U.K. military base that is vital to British security. The Indian Ocean archipelago is home to a strategically important...

A bomb attack on a school bus in Pakistan's Balochistan region has killed at least five people and injured dozens. The bus was carrying around 40 school children when it exploded at about 07:40 local time just outside the remote town of Khuzdar, police told the BBC. Three of the five people killed...

Kyiv’s European allies slapped new sanctions on Moscow, a day after a phone call between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin failed to produce a breakthrough on ending the 3-year-old war in Ukraine. “We have made clear again and again that we simply expect one thing from...

The first few aid trucks entered Gaza following nearly three months of Israel’s blockade of food, medicine and other supplies, Israel and the United Nations said, as Israel acknowledged growing pressure from allies including the United States. Five trucks carrying baby food and other desperately...

Hundreds of Rwandan refugees who were living in eastern Congo since the 1994 genocide in Rwanda were repatriated on May 17, the UNHCR said, after Rwandan-backed rebels seized key parts of the region. Most of the refugees were women and children, and 360 of them crossed the border in buses provided...

Chad’s former prime minister and opposition leader Succès Masra was taken into custody by security forces on May 16, in what his party called an “abduction.” Public prosecutor Oumar Mahamat Kedelaye said Masra was arrested in connection with an intercommunal clash in Chad’s southwest province of...

Delegations from Russia and Ukraine have sat down for their first direct talks in three years, but hopes for a breakthrough at the meeting in Turkiye remain dim. Officials from Russia, Ukraine, and the United States arrived in Istanbul on Friday morning for the talks, the first since shortly after...

Indian security forces have killed 31 Maoist rebels in what the country’s home minister called the “biggest operation against Naxalism”. Amit Shah said on social media that the operation took place on Karreguttalu Hill on the border of Chhattisgarh and Telangana. “The hill on which the red terror...

President Donald Trump's senior adviser for Africa said he spoke with the presidents of Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo about a draft peace deal this week, as Washington seeks to end a decades-long conflict in the region. The United States is awaiting final feedback due this weekend from...