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WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday urged India and Pakistan to work with each other to de-escalate tensions after last week’s Islamist militant attack in India-administered Kashmir that killed 26 people, the State Department said. Rubio spoke separately with Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif while expressing support to India in combating extremism and urging Pakistan to cooperate in investigating the attack, the State Department said after Rubio’s…

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Before this week’s federal election in Canada, Derek Ouellette and his wife, Yecenia Ouellette, could never have imagined voting for anyone but a Conservative. “We were both raised Conservative and we both kind of thought, Conservative is just what you do,” Derek Ouellette, a 46-year-old insurance broker from Belle River, near Windsor, Ontario, said in…

Israel said it carried out a warning strike against an extremist group that was preparing to attack a Druze community in Syria, following through on its pledge to protect the minority group as violence spread Wednesday in Druze areas near Damascus. It was the latest Israeli strike in Syria, where Israel views the Sunni Islamists who seized power in…

Ukraine is ready to sign an agreement that would give the U.S. access to its valuable rare minerals in the hopes of ensuring continued American support for Kyiv in its grinding war with Russia, senior Ukrainian officials said Wednesday. Ukraine’s economy minister, Yulia Svyrydenko, was headed to Washington on Wednesday to help finalize the deal,…

When it roamed the Earth 80 million years ago, a 40-foot-long Tyrannosaurus rex was one of nature’s most terrifying prospects. Soon, it could be a purse. A group of researchers and bio-engineers in the U.K. say they’re working to produce high-end clutches and totes with T. rex skin grown from fossilized remains of the ancient…

The man accused of killing 11 people when he allegedly plowed his vehicle into a crowded Vancouver, British Columbia, festival had been receiving mental health treatment, but was on an “extended leave” at the time of the attack. The suspected driver, Kai-Ji Adam Lo, was under the care of a mental health team, Vancouver Coastal…

France’s foreign ministry explicitly accused Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency on Tuesday of mounting cyber attacks on a dozen entities including ministries, defense firms and think tanks since 2021 in an attempt to destabilize France. The accusations, levelled at GRU unit APT28, which officials said was based in Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia, are not the first by a Western power, but it is the first time Paris has blamed the Russian state on the…

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…

SEOUL, South Korea — About 600 North Korean troops have been killed fighting for Russia against Ukraine out of a total deployment of 15,000, South Korean lawmakers said Wednesday, citing the country’s intelligence agency. North Korea has suffered some 4,700 casualties so far, including both injuries and deaths, though its troops have shown signs of improved combat capabilities over about six months by using modern weapons…