Pakistan says it has ‘credible intelligence’ that India is planning an imminent military strike

The massacre set off tit-for-tat diplomatic measures between India and Pakistan that included cancellation of visas and a recall of diplomats. New Delhi also suspended a crucial water-sharing treaty with Islamabad and ordered its border shut with Pakistan. Indian and Pakistani troops have also exchanged gunfire along the Line of Control that divides Kashmir into…

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Supreme Court considers endorsing country’s first religious public charter school

WASHINGTON — A case that could weaken the separation of church and state goes before the Supreme Court on Wednesday as the justices consider whether Oklahoma can approve the first-ever religious public charter school. Although the oral argument concerns only St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, which would operate online throughout the state with…

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China’s Shenzhou-19 spacecraft lands in country’s north

HONG KONG — China’s Shenzhou-19 crewed spacecraft landed in the north of the country on Wednesday, state broadcaster CCTV reported, after a one-day delay due to weather conditions at the landing site. The spacecraft and its three crew were sent into space in October last year to work on China’s “Tiangong” permanently inhabited space station. Shenzhou crewed spaceflights…

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Hotel blaze in India’s Kolkata kills 14

KOLKATA, India — At least 14 people, including two children, died in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata late Tuesday when a fire blazed through a six-story hotel in a congested neighborhood, authorities said. The fire was reported around 8:15 p.m. (10:45 a.m. ET) and was first detected in a room close to the kitchen on the first floor of the Rituraj Hotel,…

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