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ISLAMABAD - Police in eastern Pakistan say they ve arrested seven men accused of sexually abusing children and distributing videos of the abuse.Kasur district regional police chief Shahzad Sultan says investigators are sifting through evidence Sunday, including 18 or 19 videos seized so far. It was not yet known how many children we
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Russian forces on Thursday launched massive missile strikes on Ukraine s Kyiv and Chernihiv regions, areas that haven t been targeted in weeks, while Ukrainian officials announced an operation to liberate an occupied region in the country s south. Kyiv regional governor Oleksiy Kuleba said on Telegram that a settlement in the Vyshgorod district of the region was targeted early on Thursday morning and an infrastruc
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Iran is close to clinching a deal to clandestinely import 1,350 tons of purified uranium ore from Kazakhstan, according to an intelligence report obtained by The Associated Press on Tuesday. Diplomats said the assessment was heightening international concern about Tehran s nuclear activities.Such a purified uranium ore deal would be significant because Tehran appears to be running out of the material, which it needs to feed its uranium enrichment program.The report was drawn up by a member
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