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The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces are trying to confirm if dozens of bodies found in a mass grave in territory recently captured from Islamic State are Yazidis who were held captive by the jihadists, an SDF commander said on Thursday. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2UcM3jc

A captured Indian pilot is to be freed on Friday as a peace gesture, Pakistani PM Imran Khan says, amid tensions over Kashmir. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2XqXi9D

Prosecutors say the driver left the train to argue with a colleague, but he blames corroded brakes. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2XsJgV8

Members of the ruling elite of China's governing Communist Party have written to President Xi Jinping to tell him of their efforts to "strengthen education" of their families, state media said on Thursday, part of Xi's stringent anti-graft campaign. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2TeeWhR

If the government can bring a revised Brexit deal back to parliament for its approval before March 12 it will do so, the leader of the House of Commons, Andrea Leadsom, said on Thursday. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2IG05s9

Thousands of travelers were stranded in Bangkok on Thursday when Thai Airways International canceled more than a dozen flights to and from Europe after Pakistan closed its airspace amid rising tensions with India. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2Tnpz1Q

Pakistan said on Thursday that it was considering returning a captured Indian pilot, as U.S. President Donald Trump said American mediation was helping to defuse a crisis between the two nuclear powers a day after both downed enemy jets. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2UdklCL

Russia is prepared to offer India and Pakistan a platform to talk after tensions between the two nuclear powers flared, Russian news agencies cited Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying on Thursday. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2tI00tZ

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he had walked away from a nuclear deal at his summit with Kim Jong Un because of unacceptable demands from the North Korean leader to lift punishing U.S.-led sanctions. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2Ted0WD

Kim Jong Un's summit with U.S. President Donald Trump may have ended without progress on removing economic sanctions or ending the Korean War, but at least in his dealings on the world stage, the young North Korean leader took another step forward. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2UcAWH3

Britain's opposition Labour Party will back a new referendum on Brexit after parliament defeated its alternative plan for leaving the European Union, its eurosceptic leader Jeremy Corbyn said, softening his reservations about a second popular vote. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2TrkOo4

Britain is due to leave the European Union at 2300 GMT on March 29, 2019. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2IGdQHx

Libya's internationally recognized Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj and the eastern commander Khalifa Haftar agreed at a meeting in United Arab Emirates on the need to hold elections, the U.N. Libya mission said on Thursday. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2TndYjb

Israel rejected as a "theater of the absurd" on Thursday a U.N. report that accused its forces of possible war crimes in killing scores of Palestinians during Gaza border protests last year. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2Tih7Rw

A helicopter crashed in bad weather in eastern Nepal on Wednesday, killing all seven people on board, including the tourism minister, a home ministry official said. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2NvAQrq