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The United States is preparing to sign a deal with the Taliban on February 29, building on an agreement on reducing violence across Afghanistan, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday. ​​"Upon a successful implementation of this understanding, signing of the US-Taliban agreement is expected to move forward," he said in a statement released after visiting Saudi Arabia. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/39PT8h1

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is jailed in Britain fighting extradition to the United States for espionage and computer hacking, may seek asylum in France, his lawyer Eric Dupond-Moretti said on Friday. His lawyer, Dupond-Moretti said the French asylum request would be based on humanitarian and health grounds, arguing that Assange was showing signs of "psychological torture". from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2PsLUIf

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The United States is preparing to sign a deal with the Taliban on February 29, building on an agreement on reducing violence across Afghanistan, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday. ​​"Upon a successful implementation of this understanding, signing of the US-Taliban agreement is expected to move forward," he said in a statement released after visiting Saudi Arabia. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/39PT8h1

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The agreement was struck during protracted negotiations between US and Taliban representatives that began in Qatar in 2018, and could lead to a withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, they said. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3bQ1s2d

Deliberating for a third day, the jury at Harvey Weinstein's trial continued Thursday to focus a lot of attention on actress Annabella Sciorra's linchpin allegation that the once-heralded Hollywood mogul raped and sexually assaulted her in the mid-1990s. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2ug3WFZ

Containment of the illness has been a struggle far from the epicenter in central China. South Korea's capital banned street rallies and the government sent help to a city where cases have surged. Hong Kong reported a new infection in a police officer. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2Pej1z4

Hubei, the hard-hit central province where the virus emerged late last year, said Friday that 271 cases were reported by its prisons on Thursday, including 220 that had previously not been known to provincial authorities. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2SMnv2j

The leader and self-proclaimed messiah of a South Korean religious movement at the centre of the country's largest coronavirus outbreak on Friday called the disease the "devil’s deed" and a test of faith. "This disease case is seen as the devil’s deed to stop the rapid growth of Shincheonji," he wrote in the message. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3bXLq6b

"I'm going to India next week, and we're talking about —you know, they have 1.5 billion people. And Prime Minister Modi is number two on Facebook, number two. Think of that. You know who number one is? Trump. You believe that? Number one. I just found out," Trump said. As per official estimates, India's population currently is 1.3 billion people. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2SJgAH8

Donald Trump replaced his intelligence chief as reports emerged that the US president was furious with the official over a briefing given to lawmakers about Russian interference in the 2020 election campaign. Trump erupted in anger at acting director of national intelligence Joseph Maguire when he learned of the February 13 session with the House Intelligence Committee. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/32eVRhs

Intelligence officials have warned lawmakers that Russia is interfering in the 2020 election campaign to help President Donald Trump get reelected. The disclosure raises questions about the integrity of the presidential campaign and whether Trump's administration is taking the proper steps to combat the kind of interference that the US saw in 2016. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2Pf3hvY

Intelligence officials have warned lawmakers that Russia is interfering in the 2020 election campaign to help President Donald Trump get reelected. The disclosure raises questions about the integrity of the presidential campaign and whether Trump's administration is taking the proper steps to combat the kind of interference that the US saw in 2016. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2Pf3hvY

South Korea confirmed 52 more cases of novel coronavirus on Friday, taking its overall figure to 156 and making it the worst-infected country outside China. Altogether 39 of the new cases were linked to the Shincheonji Church of Jesus in the southern city of Daegu, the Korean Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/38OGBKO

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