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Partition key battleground in India, Pakistan textbook wars
Pakistani high school student Noman Afzal knows "traitorous" Hindus are to blame for the bloodshed that erupted when British India split into two nations 70 years ago. Students across the border in India are taught a starkly different version of events, the result of a decades-long effort by the nuclear-armed rivals to shape and control history to their own nationalistic narrative. August marks 70 years since the subcontinent was divided into two independent states -- Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan -- and millions were uprooted in one of the largest mass migrations in history.
In blustery call, Trump pressured Mexico on border wall payment
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By Ayesha Rascoe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump pressured the Mexican president to stop voicing opposition in public to his plan to have Mexico pay for a border wall, according to transcripts of phone calls published on Thursday that gave an insight into Trump's attempts to influence foreign leaders in his first days in office. The Washington Post published texts of sometimes fraught calls with Mexico's Enrique Pena Nieto and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull just days after the Republican took office on Jan. 20. The substance of the calls has previously been reported but the lengthy transcripts reveal Trump, whose first elected office is the presidency, trying to use a mixture of bluster, tough talk and charm as he fully enters the world of diplomacy.
Hacker who helped stop global cyberattack arrested in US
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Marcus Hutchins, a young British researcher credited with derailing a global cyberattack in May, was arrested for allegedly creating and distributing malicious software designed to collect bank-account passwords, U.S. authorities said Thursday.
Records: 2 Colorado teens killed execution-style over purse
DENVER (AP) — Two Colorado teenagers who were found dead along a rural road were forced into an "execution position" and shot at close range after a feud over a stolen purse, according to documents released Thursday.
Mueller convenes grand jury in Russia investigation
The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that Special Counsel Robert Mueller has impaneled a grand jury for the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. The White House responded to the story, stating ““The White House favors anything that accelerates the conclusion of his work fairly.”
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