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India Says It Killed 300 Militants in an Airstrike, Pakistan’s Military Disagrees

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02/26/2019

02/26/2019

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India Says It Killed 300 Militants in an Airstrike, Pakistan’s Military Disagrees

Top News: India carried out an airstrike on Tuesday that allegedly killed 300 militants after hitting a training camp for Jaish-e-Mohammed, the group that claimed responsibility for the terrorist attack in Kashmir on Feb. 14. Pakistan has denied any casualties, saying instead that Indian aircraft were forced to drop their payloads in the forest.

Mauritius: In the Hague on Tuesday, the International Court of Justice, a body of the U.N. that handles interstate disputes, ruled that Britain acted unlawfully when it split the Chagos Island away from the rest of Mauritius before that country’s independence in the 1970s. The court focused on the impact of this decision, which forced residents to relocate so that Britain could lease the island to the U.S. government, which set up a military base there. The Judge said that Britain is “under obligation to bring to an end the administration of Chagos Islands as rapidly as possible.”

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AFRICA

•  After millions voted in a delayed election on Feb. 23, Nigeria’s electoral commision is set to release the final results on Tuesday. President Muhammadu Buhari appears to have taken an early lead after ballots from 12 of 36 states were counted amid allegations of fraud and vote-rigging.

•  Botswana has reportedly offered Zimbabwe $600 million in loans to support its diamond industry and private sector. The foreign ministers of both countries expected to sign an agreement on Thursday.

•  In Kenya, a group of seven men have been arrested for defrauding a renowned businessman on a call by impersonating Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta’s voice.

AMERICAS

•  In the United States, Congress is expected to pass a resolution that would block U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to declare a national emergency in order to enact his vision for a wall on the U.S.-Mexican border.

•  In the aftermath of an unflattering interview with Venezuela’s embattled president, Nicolás Maduro, a television crew from Univision, the leading Spanish-language channel in the United States, are set to be deported on Tuesday.

•  In Argentina, Gabriel Davidovich, the country’s top rabbi, was attacked in his Buenos Aires home, where intruders told him they knew who he was. He suffered a punctured lung and fractured ribs. The assault occurred the day after Jewish graves were defaced elsewhere in the country.

ASIA

•  North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrived in Vietnam on Tuesday, in preparation for two days of meetings with U.S. President Donald Trump to discuss the future of nuclear weapons on the Korean peninsula.

•  Two crewmembers of a Russian tanker allege that they helped refuel North Korean vessels between October 2017 and May 2018, in defiance of U.S. sanctions.

•  In Taiwan, campaigns for the 2020 election have begun, and are placing a great deal of emphasis on the United States and China.

EUROPE

•  British Prime Minister Theresa May, under pressure from moderates within her party and the opposition, has proposed a mid-March vote in Parliament to rule out a “no-deal” Brexit and another to extend the deadline for leaving the EU if her revised Brexit deal fails to pass by March 12.

•  Russia’s state-backed telecommunications company, Rostelecom, has set up fiber-optic cable infrastructure connecting Russia’s Sakhalin island to three other islands that are disputed territories, claimed by both Russia and Japan.

•  Ukraine's Eurovision contestant has been dropped by the national broadcaster after she hesitated to sign a contract that would ban her from performing in Russia. Anna Korsun, who performs as Maruv, said on Facebook, “I am a musician, rather than a bat at the political stage.”

MIDDLE EAST

•  Mohammad Javad Zarif resigned from his post as Iran’s foreign minister. In an interview with the Jomhuri Eslami newspaper, he called political infighting in the country a “deadly poison.”

•  Danny Burch, a U.S. citizen who had been detained in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, since 2017, has been released and reunited with his family, according to U.S. President Donald Trump.

•  Iran is set to start importing sugar from India for the first time in five years, as the country contends with U.S. sanctions.

- By Jefcoate O'Donnell

(Sam Panthaky/AFP/Getty Images)

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