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- India’s government said it had evidence the group Jaish-e-Mohammad, had the backing of Pakistan and demanded Islamabad take action
- India has for years accused Muslim Pakistan of backing separatist militants in divided Kashmir
- President Donald Trump said the White House will make an announcement about Syria on Saturday
- Groups said that some 200 Daesh gunmen surrendered Friday
- The sailor was suffering from internal bleeding and was 112 kilometers east of the Farasan Islands, a group of 84 coral islands that form an archipelago in the Red Sea
- Maritime units were deployed to provide medical assistance and coordinate the rescue effort
- Jeremy Hunt, the UK foreign secretary, said that Assad is likely to remain in his position “for the short-term and possibly longer”
- Hunt added that the UK has “no plans” to reopen diplomatic relations with Syria
- The meeting is the first between ministers from the two countries following the poisoning of a former Russian spy in the English city of Salisbury on March 4
- The attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal, which Britain said was done using a Soviet era nerve agent Novichok, plunged relations to their lowest ebb in decades
- ‘If these cars ... suddenly spell a threat to US national security, then that is frightening to us’
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