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World News - Authorities investigate after fire at house owned by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer - May 12 (UPI) -- Counter-terrorism police are investigating a fire described as "suspicious" at a house owned by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer early Monday.

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World News -- Food security group warns Israeli blockade raises famine threat in Gaza -- Gaza is under the threat of widespread famine as nearly 500,000 Palestinians are facing catastrophic food insecurity, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification reported on Monday.

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World News -- Pope Leo XIV tells media to help promote global peace by 'disarming' words -- Pope Leo XIV called for a kinder, gentler mass media, one that speaks up for those with no voice and in defense of free speech, and urged regimes around the world that jail journalists to set them free.

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World News -- Poland shuts another Russian consulate, expels diplomats as relations worsen -- Poland said Monday it would closea second Russian consulate over a May 2024 blaze that destroyed the largest shopping mall in the capital, Warsaw, saying the evidence showed Moscow was behind it.

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World News -- India, Pakistan hold conference call to solidify fragile cease-fire -- Indian and Pakistani officials were scheduled to hold direct talks Monday to build on a U.S.-brokered cease-fire between the nuclear-armed Asian rivals that came into force over the weekend.

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Israelis gather to mourn fallen soldiers on Yom HaZikaron

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Charity kitchen provides meals to displaced Palestinians in Gaza

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Pope Francis lies in state at St. Peter's Basilica

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World News -- Hamas to release U.S.-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander -- Hamas has announced it will release the man believed to be the last living U.S. citizen held hostage in Gaza, the group announced Sunday.

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World News -- PKK says it is dissolving and ending its conflict with Turkey -- The Kurdistan Workers Party, a militant organization that seeks an independent Kurdistan, announced it was disbanding, a move that is expected to have wide-ranging consequences throughout the region.

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U.S. News -- U.S. and China agree to pause most tariffs for 90 days to allow for talks to continue -- The United States and China said Monday that they have reached an agreement to cut most of their tariffs for 90 days to allow more time for continued economic and trade discussions.

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World News -- Pope calls for 'no more war' during first papal prayer -- Pope Leo XIV Sunday called for world peace, an end to conflicts across the globe and "no more war" during his first papal prayer in Rome as the new pontiff.

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World News -- Zelensky vows to meet 'personally' with Putin for talks to end war -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he is willing to meet face to face with Russian President Vladimir Putin following a demand by the Trump administration for the leaders to meet.

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U.S. News -- U.S., China reach agreement after second day of trade negotiations -- The United States and China have reached a trade agreement amid the second day of high-level negotiations, senior officials said Sunday.

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World News -- Iran, United States complete 'difficult but useful' nuclear talks -- A fourth round of nuclear talks between the United States and Oman have produced encouraging results for the Trump administration, a senior official told reporters Sunday.

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U.S. News -- Lutnick: Trump administration to keep 10% tariffs for 'foreseeable future' -- U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Sunday that the administration of President Donald Trump would keep the 10% baseline tariffs on global imports for the "foreseeable future."

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World News -- European leaders, Zelensky press Russia for 30-day cease-fire; Putin proposes talks with Ukraine -- European leaders from Britain, France, Germany and Poland joined Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv in urging Russian President Vladimir Putin to accept a 30-day ceasefire or face more sanctions.

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Science News -- Soviet-era spacecraft hits ocean after 50 years in orbit -- A Soviet-area spacecraft that orbited Earth for more than 50 years crashed into the Indian Ocean on Saturday, Russian officials confirmed.

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World News -- Pakistan accused of violating cease-fire with India -- Pakistan is accused of violating a cease-fire with India just hours after agreeing to halt hostilities on Saturday.

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U.S. News -- U.S., China start trade talks in Geneva -- The United States and China are carrying out high-level diplomatic talks in Geneva, Chinese state-run media reported from the Swiss capital on Saturday.

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U.S. added to int'l human rights watchlist over Trump attacks on democratic norms

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Reports: Qatar to gift luxury plane to Trump for use as Air Force One

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Equipment issues grind air traffic to a halt in Newark and Atlanta

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Trump signs executive order to align U.S. drug prices with other countries

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Justice Dept. officials tapped to fill Library of Congress roles after Trump firings

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