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Federal judge extends order blocking Trump administration ban on foreign students at Harvard

U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs extended the block she imposed last week with a temporary restraining order, which allows the Ivy League school to continue enrolling international students as a lawsuit proceeds from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/5euWTiZ

Sri Lankan actor Malini Fonseka dies 

Ms. Fonseka was also a Member of Parliament representing President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s alliance from 2010 to 2015, through the ‘National List’, which allots seats to political parties based on their share of votes as per Sri Lanka’s proportional representation system from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/fyWw3Oi

The humble beginnings of Salvation Army from Tamil Nadu’s Putheri

The international charitable organisation runs many hospitals worldwide. Its first hospital was established at Putheri. In 1893, Major William Stevens set up a dispensary at the modest bathroom on the veranda for Captain Henry John Andrews to treat the poor. Captain Andrews laid the foundation for Salvation Army Catherine Booth Hospital from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/jAi8vad

Russia outlaws Amnesty International in latest crackdown on dissent and activists

The decision by the Russian Prosecutor General’s office, announced in an online statement, is the latest in the unrelenting crackdown on Kremlin critics, journalists and activists that intensified to unprecedented levels after Moscow invaded Ukraine in February 2022 from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/DoxpUTY

Israel open to 'ending the fighting' as part of Gaza deal: PM office

Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip killed at least 103 people overnight and into May 18, and prompted the main hospital in northern Gaza to close as Israel intensifies its war in the territory that, after more than 19 months, shows no signs of abating. from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/GqPiCBW

U.S. Embassy in India warns people staying beyond their authorised period to face deportation or ban on travelling to U.S.

Earlier in April, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem reminded all foreign nationals present in the country for over 30 days that the deadline to register under the Alien Registration Act is April 11 from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/lxjZ2Mc

Kremlin says a Putin-Trump meeting is essential but needs advance preparation and must yield results

It is necessary both primarily from the point of view of bilateral Russian-U.S. relations and from the point of view of having a serious conversation at the highest level about international affairs and on regional problems, including, of course, about the crisis over Ukraine, says Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/Ms3u9Rp

Ukraine, allies push for 30-day ceasefire starting May 12

The leaders of France, Germany, Poland and the United Kingdom arrived together at the train station in Kyiv, and met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shortly after to join a ceremony at Kyiv’s Independence Square marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/K132a4y

The Hindu Huddle 2025: Ranil Wickremesinghe moots idea of India taking a lead in ensuring emergence of South Asia as most powerful region

Mr. Wickremesinghe observed that the South Asian region would be a larger commonwealth than British commonwealth and that it had several common threads in terms of religion, culture, civilisation, literature and philosophy among other things from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/MvDZf9u

Shocking defeat for Germany’s Friedrich Merz as bid to become Chancellor fails in Parliament

CDU leader Merz needed a majority of 316 out of 630 votes but only received 310 despite his coalition holding 328 seats; a candidate for Chancellor has never failed to win on the first ballot since the end of World War II from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/XBsxt3d

Nobody wants another centralised regime in Syria, says Kurdish leader Salih Muslim Muhammad

Salih Muslim Muhammad, Syria’s main Kurdish leader in an interview with The Hindu, spoke about the role of Turkey in the Kurdish question, the resurgence of the Islamic State (ISIS) and the Syrian Kurds’ ties with Israel from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/FslmECn