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Protests, counter-protests as Indian sectarian feud erupts

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Protests have spread across India and set off counter-protests as students and professors demand the release of a student leader jailed on sedition charges. Violence at a courthouse in Chennai led to at least 40 arrests.

Pope Francis urges governments to ‘open hearts’ to migrants

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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — In a moment filled with powerful political symbolism, Pope Francis prayed Wednesday at Mexico’s dusty northern border for the thousands of migrants who have died trying to reach the United States and appealed for governments to open their hearts, if not their borders, to the “human tragedy that is forced migration.”…