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• Dozens killed in India ethnic riots
GAUHATI, India - Clashes between ethnic groups in India's remote northeast have left at least 49 people dead in four days, including 19 killed on Monday, officials said. The fighting in Assam state began Friday when a group of young ethnic Bodo men ...
• Study: Georgia villages 'torched' after invasion
A Georgian man examines his burned property in the village of Ergneti some 62 miles west of Tbilisi on Thursday. Hundreds of houses in ethnic Georgian villages in South Ossetia were torched in August, after Russian troops took control of the area ...
• Military: Suicide bomber kills 27 in Sri Lanka
A police officer frisks an ethnic Tamil man for explosives and weapons outside a census center in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Sunday. Oct. 3: Pakistan is struggling to maintain power in the Taliban stronghold of Bajour, where 8,000 Pakistani soldiers have ...
• Pope creates 4 new saints, including Indian
Peter's Basilica to receive Mass gifts during the ceremony. Many people associate Mother Teresa, a Nobel Peace Prize-winning nun, with India. The ethnic Albanian came to India as a young woman to work with India's most desperately poor. She died in ...
• Montenegro, Macedonia recognize Kosovo
Montenegro split from Serbia only in 2006, and its officials sided with Serbia during the region's ethnic wars in the 1990s. However, pro-Serb officials are not a part of the current government in Montenegro, a tiny Adriatic Sea state almost equally ...