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A new Indian bill punishes jailed politicians: Why has it sparked outrage? | Politics News
New Delhi, India – The Indian government tabled a new bill earlier this week in parliament under which a prime
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India’s parliament bans vast online gambling industry | Cricket News
India’s new online gaming laws could see offenders face up to five years in prison. India’s parliament has passed a
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Xi Jinping makes rare visit to Tibet as 60 years of Chinese rule celebrated | Xi Jinping News
State media reports Chinese leader’s arrival in Tibet was greeted with people waving bouquets of flowers and dancing ‘to joyful
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Did Trump’s tariff war force India and China to mend ties? | Border Disputes News
India and China have agreed to step up trade flows and resume direct flights in a major diplomatic breakthrough, as
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At least 71 die in bus crash involving Afghans deported from Iran | Refugees News
Police in western Afghanistan’s Herat province say the accident was due to the bus’s ‘excessive speed and negligence’. At least
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Pakistan restores electricity, reopens roads after floods kill hundreds | Floods News
Army says military doctors are treating survivors and engineers are repairing damaged infrastructure. Pakistan has restored 70 percent of electricity
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Kim Jong Un pledges to speed up nuclear build-up over US-South Korea drills | Nuclear Weapons News
North Korea’s leader threatens to speed up Pyongyang’s nuclear arsenal expansion over a sign of ‘hostile intent’. North Korean leader
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Flash floods wreak havoc in northern Pakistan | Climate Crisis News
Rescuers in northern Pakistan have pulled dozens of bodies overnight from homes ravaged by landslides and flash floods, taking the
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More than 160 people killed in Pakistan in heavy rains, flash floods | Climate Crisis News
Disaster agency says the majority of deaths happened in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in northwest Pakistan. The death toll from heavy monsoon
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How New Delhi’s garbage mountains become heat bombs for waste pickers | Environment News
New Delhi, India – “My right eye swells up in the heat, so I stopped going to the landfill last
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Iran says it arrested 21,000 ‘suspects’ during 12-day war with Israel-US | News
Tehran says it carried out widespread internal arrests as Israel, US launched huge strikes on the country in June. Iranian
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Thailand accuses Cambodia of planting landmines after soldier injured | Border Disputes News
Cambodia dismisses Thai army accusation that it breached truce and international law after incident near border. A Thai soldier has
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