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Cyprus’ Interior Ministry said Thursday 76 Afghans and Syrians seeking international protection have been relocated to France under a European Union program to ease the burden on Mediterranean countries receiving large numbers of migrants. CYPRUS TO CRACK DOWN ON FAN VIOLENCE AT SPORTING EVENTS The ministry said in a statement …

Britain’s police watchdog asked prosecutors Thursday to decide whether to charge a police officer over the fatal shooting of an unarmed Black man in London last year. Chris Kaba died after an officer fired a single gunshot through the windshield of the car the 24-year-old was driving in a residential …

U.S. troops diagnosed with traumatic brain injury were being treated at their bases following attacks in Syria last week by Iranian-backed militants, officials said Thursday.  Pentagon spokesman Brig. General Patrick Ryder said four service members suffered traumatic brain injuries at a U.S. base near Hasaka during a March 23 drone …

Air strikes by Myanmar’s military on a village in the country’s northwest on Thursday killed at least eight civilians, including two children, according to members of a rebel ethnic minority group and independent media reports. The attack on Khuafo village, just north of Thantlang, a major town in Chin state …

China spoke out in favor of nuclear disarmament Thursday in a Foreign Ministry press conference, counter-signaling the U.S. assessment of its expanding nuclear programs. Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Mao Ning touched on the topic Thursday after being asked about the steep increase in China’s nuclear arsenal. “As a …

Two Jewish settlers have been charged with terrorism for an axe attack earlier this month on a Palestinian family in the occupied West Bank, Israel’s Shin Bet security agency said Thursday. The Shin Bet said the attack occurred in the northern West Bank town of Hawara – the same town …

Elián González made headlines in 1999 as the boy found floating on an inner tube near Florida shores and became the center of an international custody battle between the U.S. and Cuba. Now 29 years old, González is set to become a legislator in the Latin American country following Sunday’s …

New Delhi will ramp up testing for COVID-19 and encourage the increased use of masks, a local minister said on Thursday, after India recorded its highest daily case count in nearly six months. India recorded 3,016 new cases of the coronavirus in the last 24 hours, the federal health ministry …

A prolific sperm donor from the Netherlands who allegedly fathered over 500 children worldwide now faces a lawsuit over the potential increased risk of accidental incest.  “If I had known that he had already fathered more than a hundred children, I would never have chosen this donor,” Eva, a mother …

The deaths of at least 39 migrants at a Mexican migrant facility just south of the U.S. border are being investigated as homicides and arrest warrants are expected Thursday.  At a press conference Wednesday, Mexico’s Security Minister Rosa Icela Rodriguez said prosecutors identified eight people suspected of being responsible for …