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In a verdict unsealed late Wednesday night, US District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson concluded the Syrian military had deliberately targeted the makeshift media center in the city of Homs where Colvin and other journalists were working. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2CTOC20

Officials across multiple states linked numerous deaths to the frigid air. It has been more than 20 years since a similar blast of frigid air covered a swath of the US Midwest and Northeast, according to the National Weather Service. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2RxtOmB

In an interview Thursday, Guaido told The Associated Press that the move will be a "new test" for Venezuela's military, whose top brass has sided with socialist President Nicolas Maduro since protests against his rule broke out last week. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2WxYw2x

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The fragments were sent with a forensic expert to a Miami-based laboratory this week to determine when those buried had died, a senior official from the office on missing persons (OMP) said. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2TqX2oM

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A brutal cold wave moved eastward on Thursday after bringing temperatures in the US Midwest lower than those in Antarctica, grounding flights, closing schools and businesses and raising fears of hypothermia. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2RtyVDY

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India's foreign secretary Vijay Gokhale on Wednesday summoned Pakistan's envoy Sohail Mahmood in New Delhi and categorically told him that foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi's telephonic conversation with separatist Kashmiri leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was a "brazen attempt" to subvert India's unity and violate its sovereignty and territorial integrity. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2sWdm5r

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Ten armed groups run the Shan State border town of Muse, which is separated by a shallow river from the gleaming towers of its Chinese counterpart, Ruili. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2WwyyfN

In a hate crime, a Hindu temple has been vandalised in the US state of Kentucky by miscreants who sprayed black paint on the deity and left a knife stabbed into a chair in the main hall. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2RqRg4H

Classes were canceled for Wednesday and Thursday for students across the Midwest, including Chicago, home of the nation's third-largest school system, and police warned of the heightened risk of accidents on icy highways. Michigan said all state offices would remain closed through Thursday from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2G09fOg

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Britain is scheduled to exit the EU on March 29 — the first country ever to do so — but an agreement governing its departure is held up in British Parliament, mostly due to a border measure known as the Irish "backstop." On Tuesday, PM May won backing from Parliament to reopen negotiations over the withdrawal deal. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2FVWXq5

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"I am ready to sit down at the negotiating table with the opposition so that we could talk for the good of Venezuela," Maduro told the Russian state news agency in an interview in Caracas. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2Scsn18

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The FBI is investigating Chinese economic espionage in nearly all of its 56 field offices around the country, underscoring the depth of the threat to US business, Director Christopher Wray told Congress Tuesday. "China writ large is the most significant counterintelligence threat we face," Wray told the Senate Intelligence Committee in a hearing on foreign threats. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2sUk2kr

Venezuela's Supreme Tribunal of Justice barred self-declared president Juan Guaido from leaving the country and froze his bank accounts Tuesday, as leader Nicolas Maduro seeks to neutralize the American-backed opposition chief. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2FXhhaI

The world's two largest economies are battling for nothing less than future dominance in critical high-tech industries, according to US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, the lead US negotiator. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2Ga26dt

Temperatures plunged as low as minus 26 (negative 32 degrees Celsius) in North Dakota with wind chills as low as minus 62 (negative 52 degrees Celsius) in Minnesota. It was nearly that cold in Wisconsin and Illinois. Governors in Wisconsin, Illinois and Michigan declared emergencies as the worst of the cold threatened on Wednesday. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2FWRr6r

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President Donald Trump is backing Venezuelan congress leader Juan Guaido, who has proclaimed himself interim president in the opposition's confrontation with President Nicolas Maduro. Colombia, which shares a 1,370-mile (2,200-kilometer) border with Venezuela, is also backing Guaido. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2FYJde0

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The UK Parliament will vote on a crucial set of amendments later on Tuesday to determine the future course of Brexit as British Prime Minister Theresa May agreed to go back to the European Union (EU) to reopen negotiations on a legally-binding withdrawal agreement. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2DGzaYX

"We continue to assess that North Korea is unlikely to give up all of its nuclear weapons and production capabilities, even as it seeks to negotiate partial denuclearization steps to obtain key US and international concessions," US Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said in a report to Congress on threats to the United States. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2DFHnN5

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The EU's executive commissioners said that while the US internet giants have made some progress, they need to pick up the pace of their work fighting disinformation and if their efforts are unsatisfactory, they could face regulation. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2MFIkHK

Aasia Bibi, the Christian woman who spent nearly a decade on death row for a false blasphemy accusation, is free at last. The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday dismissed a review petition against its October 2018 verdict that had overturned the conviction of Aasia Bibi. The rejection of the petition has removed the last legal hurdle in the years-long fake blasphemy case and potentially paved the way for Bibi to leave the country to join her family in exile in Canada. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2DI82Jb

Thousands of labourers walked out of factory floors across the country in days-long protests that disrupted the $30 billion industry -saw police fire rubber bullets and tear gas at demonstrators. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2UoG7TN

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The traditional annual speech by President Trump was initially scheduled for January but had to be postponed because of the largest government shutdown due to differences between the White House and the Opposition Democrats on the issue of the wall. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2CSY3Pc

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The sweeping indictments accuse the company of using extreme efforts to steal trade secrets from American businesses — including trying to take a piece of a robot from a T-Mobile lab. The executive charged is Huawei's chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, who was arrested in Canada last month. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2sVMTEN