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Prominent Buddhist monk arrested over alleged sexual abuse in Sri Lanka

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Sri Lankan authorities arrested a senior Buddhist monk on Saturday for the alleged sexual abuse of an underage girl, police said, marking the highest-profile case involving clergy in the country. Pallegama Hemarathana, 71, was arrested at a private hospital in the capital Colombo where he had sought treatment over the weekend amid an investigation into … Read more

From Sri Lanka to Europe, the war spreads far beyond Iran

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In its retaliatory attacks, Iran has struck its U.S.-allied neighbors in the region, including the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan, Oman, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. The war has also drawn in European powers, after a drone strike Sunday hit a British military base on Cyprus, a European Union member state off the coast of … Read more