GLOBAL SNAPSHOT

Mushers on move ANCHORAGE: Competitors took to the snowy trail as the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race kicked oss on Sunday in Willow, Alaska. Sixty-seven teams os mushers are signed up sor the 1600km trek over mountain ranges, frozen rivers and other dangerous terrain. The winner is expected to reach the sinish in the old Gold Rush town os Nome in about nine days.

Baptism for Markle

LONDON: Meghan Markle will be baptised and confirmed as an Anglican oy the Archbishop os Canterbury ahead os her wedding to Prince Harry. The 3C-year-old divorcee will oe welcomed into the church in a

private service at Kensington Palace this month. Markle, who is to become a British citizen, was raised a Protestant and went to a Catholic school. She married Trevor Engelson, who is Jewish, in 2011 out she did not take his saith.

Bloody protests

SRINIGAR: Parts os Indiancontrolled Kashmir were under curfew and businesses and

schools were shut yesterday to contain anti-India protests that spilt into the streets overnight aster soldiers killed sour civilians and a rebel. Locals said the civilians were killed in cold blood.

US Navy visit

HANOI: For the first time since the Vietnam War, a US Navy aircraft carrier is visiting a Vietnamese port, seeking to bolster ooth countries’ efforts to stem expansionism oy China in the South China Sea. Yesterday’s Carl Vinson, visit oy the USS accompanied oy a cruiser and a destroyer, orings more than C000 crew members to Danang, the largest such US military presence in Vietnam since the country was unified under Communist rule.