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Azerbaijan claims full control of breakaway region and holds initial talks with ethnic Armenians

AP News UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Azerbaijan regained control of its breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh in a deadly two-day military offensive and held initial talks with representatives of its ethnic Armenian population on reintegrating the area into the mainly Muslim country, Azerbaijan’s top diplomat told the U.N. Security Council Thursday.

Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov reaffirmed Azerbaijan’s determination to guarantee Nagorno-Karabakh’s residents “all rights and freedoms” in line with the country’s constitution and international human rights obligations, including...
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Nigerians protest mysterious death of Afrobeat star as police exhumes body for autopsy

AP News ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Thousands marched across Nigeria on Thursday over the mysterious death last week of an Afrobeat star whose body has been exhumed for an autopsy as authorities investigate the cause of his demise.

Lagos police said the body of the late Ilerioluwa Aloba, better known as MohBad, was exhumed Thursday afternoon in response to complaints about the unclear circumstances surrounding his death.

Aloba, widely known as one of Nigeria’s fastest-rising young pop stars, died last week in a Lagos hospital at the age of 27 after being admitted for an unknown...
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Surveillance of Indian diplomats in Canada led to allegations around Sikh killing, official says

AP News TORONTO (AP) — The allegation of India’s involvement in the killing of a Sikh Canadian is based on surveillance of Indian diplomats in Canada, including intelligence provided by a major ally, a Canadian official familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Thursday.

The official said the communications involved Indian officials and Indian diplomats in Canada and that some of the intelligence was provided by a member of the “Five Eyes” intelligence-sharing alliance, which includes the U.S., Britain, Australia and New Zealand, in addition to Canada.

The...
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Tears of joy after Brazil's Supreme Court makes milestone ruling on Indigenous lands

AP News RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Indigenous people celebrated Thursday after Brazil's Supreme Court ruled to enshrine their land rights, removing the imminent threat those protections could be rolled back.

The justices had been evaluating a lawsuit brought by Santa Catarina state, backed by farmers, seeking to block an Indigenous group from expanding the size of its territorial claim. Nearly all of the high court's justices voted to support the Indigenous group, which has far-reaching implications for territories nationwide.

Dozens of Indigenous people in traditional yellow...
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Brazil’s firefighters battle wildfires raging during rare late-winter heat wave

AP News RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Firefighters on Thursday were battling flames in Brazil’s northeastern Bahia state, fanned by strong winds and abnormally high temperatures for the season, authorities said.

While it is still technically winter in Brazil, with spring due to start in a couple days, a heat wave prompting record temperatures has swept across much of the country since the beginning of the week.

Faced with a growing number of hot spots caused by high temperatures, Bahia's association of forestry-based companies this week launched a campaign to prevent — and combat...
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Top Stories in International News

  • Azerbaijan claims full control of breakaway region and holds initial talks with ethnic Armenians
  • Nigerians protest mysterious death of Afrobeat star as police exhumes body for autopsy
  • Surveillance of Indian diplomats in Canada led to allegations around Sikh killing, official says
  • Tears of joy after Brazil's Supreme Court makes milestone ruling on Indigenous lands
  • Brazil’s firefighters battle wildfires raging during rare late-winter heat wave
  • Zelenskyy delivers upbeat message to US lawmakers on war progress as some Republican support softens
  • Haiti's government to oversee canal project that prompted Dominican Republic to close all borders
  • King Charles III makes a stop at the fire-damaged Notre Dame Cathedral on his state visit to France
  • Guinea’s leader defends coups in Africa and rebuffs the West, saying things must change
  • Behind all the speechmaking at the UN lies a basic, unspoken question: Is the world governable?

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  • Guinea’s leader defends coups in Africa and rebuffs the West, saying things must change
  • 3 South Africa navy personnel die after they are swept off a submarine deck during supply operation
  • Oscar Pistorius is eligible for parole after serving half of his murder sentence, new documents say
  • Italian leader Giorgia Meloni vows to take 'extraordinary measures' to deal with a migrant influx
  • Big Pharma's Johnson & Johnson under investigation in South Africa over 'excessive' drug prices

Asia

  • The Versailles Palace celebrates its 400th anniversary and hosts King Charles III for state dinner

Europe

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  • Grain spat drags Ukraine's ties with ally Poland to lowest point since start of Russian invasion
  • Pope goes to Marseille to talk migration, but will Europe listen as it scrambles to stem an influx?
  • Ukraine complains to WTO about Hungary, Poland and Slovakia banning its food products
  • Germany seeks answers from Poland in a visa fraud scandal involving migrants from Asia and Africa
  • UN chief says people are looking to leaders for action and a way out of the current global 'mess'
  • Turkey's Erdogan says he trusts Russia as much as he trusts the West
  • Italy approves new migrant detention as talk turns to naval blockade to prevent launching of boats
  • As Slovakia's trust in democracy fades, its election frontrunner campaigns against aid to Ukraine
  • EU pledges crackdown on 'brutal' migrant smuggling during visit to overwhelmed Italian island
  • Erdogan says Turkey may part ways with the EU. He implied the country could end its membership bid

Middle East

  • Nearly 100 migrants rescued from a yacht off southwestern Greece
  • Top US Air Force official in Mideast worried over possible Russia-Iran 'cooperation and collusion'
  • A daughter of long-detained activist in Bahrain is blocked from traveling to the island kingdom
  • Britain, France and Germany say they will keep their nuclear and missiles sanctions on Iran
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