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By Fayaz Bukhari, Asif Shahzad and Tariq Maqbool CHURANDA, India/CHAKOTHI, Pakistan (Reuters) – Nestled between mountains in Indian-administered Kashmir, teachers lead school children in the village of Churanda in morning prayers, asking that the sound of swaying walnut trees and cooing birds not be replaced by the roaring of artillery. Though children attended class as …

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BERLIN (Reuters) -At least eight people were injured, three of them seriously, after a car drove into a crowd in the centre of the southwestern German city of Stuttgart on Friday in what police said was a “tragic” traffic accident. The driver of the car has been detained, police said, adding that there was no …

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By Susan Heavey and Jonathan Allen WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday his administration will revoke Harvard University’s tax-exempt status, returning to a threat he issued against the Massachusetts school last month as part of his wider attack on elite universities. “We are going to be taking away Harvard’s Tax Exempt Status. …

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By Sarah Marsh and Friederike Heine BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany’s spy agency on Friday classified the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) as “extremist”, enabling it to step up monitoring of the country’s biggest opposition party, which decried the move as a “blow against democracy”. A 1,100-page experts’ report found the AfD to be a racist and …

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By Andrew Gray and Lili Bayer BRUSSELS (Reuters) -NATO chief Mark Rutte has proposed alliance members boost defence spending to 3.5% of GDP and commit a further 1.5% to broader security-related spending to meet Donald Trump’s demand for a 5% target, people familiar with the proposal told Reuters. Rutte’s proposal could allow the U.S. president …

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By Christopher Scicluna and Ilze Filks VALLETTA (Reuters) -A ship bound for Gaza carrying humanitarian aid and activists was bombed by drones in international waters off Malta early on Friday, its organisers said, alleging that Israel was to blame. The Israeli foreign ministry did not respond to a request for comment on the allegation by …

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