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Maha Kumbh Mela, or Great Pitcher Festival, is held every 12 years in the northern city of Prayagraj, as Hindus believe bathing in sacred rivers brings salvation from the cycle of birth and death, and the absolution of sins. Uttar Pradesh state Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said 35 million people took part this week.
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The most immediate risk after next week's U.S. presidential transition isn't to residents of those nations Donald Trump has mused about invading. It's to the millions of undocumented migrants he vows to deport, including young people who don't remember life anywhere else.
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The Biden administration on Tuesday is expected to lift the U.S. designation of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism, according to U.S. officials familiar with matter. The officials were not authorized to comment and insisted on anonymity to discuss the yet to be publicly announced move.
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Weary and anxious from a week of massive infernos burning around Los Angeles and now facing dire new warnings, residents gathered up their pets and family photos and prepared to flee at a moment's notice as fire-fuelling winds blasted Tuesday across Southern California.
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U.S. president-elect Donald Trump's choice for defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, vowed Tuesday to foster a 'warrior culture' at the Pentagon, portraying himself as a 'change agent' during a testy Senate confirmation hearing that drew an outburst of protest but also veterans supporting the pick.
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Weary and anxious from a week of massive infernos burning around Los Angeles and now facing dire new warnings, residents gathered up their pets and family photos and prepared to flee at a moment's notice as fire-fuelling winds blasted Tuesday across Southern California.
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Republican president-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the Pentagon, former Fox News host Pete Hegseth, came under fire early at a Senate confirmation hearing on matters ranging from diversity in the military to allegations of defending accused war criminals.
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Hamas has accepted a draft agreement for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and the release of dozens of hostages, two officials involved in the talks said Tuesday. Mediator Qatar said Israel and the Palestinian militant group were at the "closest point" yet to sealing a deal that would bring them a step closer to ending the war.
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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's choice for defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, calls himself a "change agent” heading into a potentially explosive confirmation hearing Tuesday as senators question whether the former combat veteran and TV news show host is fit to lead the U.S. military.
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Donald Trump engaged in an "unprecedented criminal effort" to "unlawfully retain power" after losing the 2020 election, special counsel Jack Smith said in a report published early Tuesday by the U.S. Justice Department, expressing confidence in the prospect of a conviction at a trial that will not happen now that Trump is returning to the White...
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Special counsel Jack Smith said his team 'stood up for the rule of law' as it investigated U.S. president-elect Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, writing in a much-anticipated report released Tuesday that he stands fully behind his decision to bring criminal charges he believes would have resulted in a conviction...
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Additional water tankers and scores of firefighters arrived at the Los Angeles area on Monday ahead of fierce winds that were forecast to return and threaten the progress made so far on two massive infernos that have destroyed thousands of homes and killed at least 24 people.
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A new toll on drivers entering the core of Manhattan brought modest but measurable traffic reductions to New York City's heavily-gridlocked streets in its first week of operation, according to preliminary data released Monday by the state's transit authority.
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The criminal charges against Hunter Biden 'were the culmination of thorough, impartial investigations, not partisan politics,' the prosecutor who led the probes said in a report released Monday that criticized President Joe Biden for having maligned the Justice Department when he pardoned his son.
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A growing force of firefighters moved into the Los Angeles area Monday as more powerful winds were expected to trigger new wildfires that could set back the recent progress made in containing blazes that have destroyed thousands of homes and killed at least 24 people.
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A growing force of firefighters moved into the Los Angeles area Monday as more powerful winds were expected to trigger new wildfires that could set back the recent progress made in containing blazes that have destroyed thousands of homes and killed at least 24 people.
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President Joe Biden spoke Sunday with relatives of three Americans the U.S. government is looking to bring home from Afghanistan, but it was unclear from the call if a deal to bring them back that is now on the table could be completed before the he leaves office next week.
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Vice President-elect JD Vance says people responsible for the violence during the Capitol riot "obviously” should not be pardoned, as President-elect Donald Trump is promising to use his clemency power on behalf of many of those who tried on Jan. 6, 2021, to overturn the results of the election that Trump lost.
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U.S. special counsel Jack Smith has resigned from the Justice Department after submitting his investigative report on president-elect Donald Trump, an expected move that comes amid legal wrangling over how much of that document can be made public in the days ahead.
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President-elect Donald Trump's border czar Tom Homan has privately told Republican lawmakers to temper their expectations for the incoming administration's initial deportation operation, citing limited resources, according to multiple sources involved in the conversations.
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Even as flames in Southern California continued to carve a destructive path on Friday and fire officials sought to assess the damage and determine how the fires began, a larger question loomed: Could this level of devastation somehow have been minimized, or is this simply the new normal in an era of climate-related calamities?
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The black boxes of a Boeing jetliner that crashed in South Korea last month stopped recording about four minutes before the accident, South Korean officials said Saturday, possibly complicating investigations into the cause of the disaster that killed 179 people.
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The black boxes of a Boeing jetliner that crashed in South Korea last month stopped recording about four minutes before the accident, South Korean officials said Saturday, possibly complicating investigations into the cause of the disaster that killed 179 people.
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U.S. President Joe Biden's administration announced Friday that it's expanding sanctions against Russia's critically important energy sector, unveiling a new effort to inflict pain on Moscow for its grinding war in Ukraine as president-elect Donald Trump gets set to return to office vowing to quickly end the conflict.
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Rudy Giuliani was found in contempt of court Friday for the second time in a week, as a federal judge warned him he could be sent to jail if he doesn't stop spreading lies about two former Georgia election workers who won a US$148-million defamation judgement against him.
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U.S. president-elect Donald Trump was sentenced Friday in his hush money case, but the judge declined to impose any punishment, an outcome that cements his conviction while freeing him to return to the White House unencumbered by the threat of a jail term or a fine.
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An official Palestinian tally of direct deaths in the Israel-Hamas war likely undercounted the number of casualties by around 40 per cent in the first nine months of the war as the Gaza Strip's healthcare infrastructure unraveled, according to a study published on Thursday.
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