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India’s only transgender political candidate reappears after kidnapping fears0
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- November 29, 2018
Chandramukhi Muvvala had disappeared on Tuesday morning She is ‘extremely disoriented’ but details about her disappearance are unknown Thursday, 29 Nov, 2018 Chandramukhi Muvvala. Photo: Twitter A transgender candidate in state elections in southern India has presented herself at a police station after her disappearance prompted fears of a kidnapping, police said on Thursday. Chandramukhi
READ MOREPakistan Wants To ‘Move Forward Toward Friendship,’ Khan Tells India0
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- November 28, 2018
November 28, 2018 By RFE/RL Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan speaks during the groundbreaking ceremony of the Kartarpur border corridor, which will officially open next year, on November 28. Prime Minister Imran Khan said that all Pakistani institutions want to mend ties with India, as officials from both countries attended the groundbreaking ceremony for a
READ MOREAt Least 30 Afghan Civilians Killed In Air Strike0
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- November 28, 2018
November 28, 2018 15:02 GMT An Afghan boy receives treatment at a hospital after an air strike in Helmand Province on November 28. Afghan officials say at least 30 civilians have been killed in a U.S. air strike in the southern province of Helmand, a Taliban stronghold. The NATO-led Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan said
READ MOREAfghanistan’s Ghani Presents ‘Road Map’ For Peace Talks At UN Conference0
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- November 28, 2018
Last Updated: November 28, 2018 17:46 GMT Afghan President Ashraf Ghani delivers a speech next to his wife, Rula, during a United Nations conference on Afghanistan in Geneva on November 28. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani says his government has formed a 12-strong negotiating team to seek a peace agreement with the Taliban, as he laid
READ MOREInternational lawmakers seek global regulations for social media0
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- November 28, 2018
PRI’s The World November 27, 2018 By The World staff A campaigner from a political pressure group wears an oversized mask of founder and CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg after he failed to attend a meeting on fake news held by Parliament’s Digital, Culture Media and Sport committee in London Nov. 27, 2018. Credit: Toby Melville/Reuters For the
READ MORESri Lanka’s top military officer detained in deaths of 110
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- November 28, 2018
By Editor on November 28, 2018 Colombo, – A Sri Lankan court has ordered the detention of the country’s top military officer for investigation in connection with the abduction and disappearance of 11 young people during the country’s civil war that ended nine years ago, the Associated Press reported.
READ MOREIndia’s Dangerous New Curriculum0
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- November 27, 2018
Alex Traub December 6, 2018 Issue Ian Berry/Magnum Photos Schoolgirls in Udaipur, Rajasthan, 1999 From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, the Mughal Empire did much to create modern-day India. It consolidated the country into a sovereign political
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Indian Officials, Rights Groups Express Alarm over Assam Residents’ Suicides0
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- November 27, 2018
By Jhumur Deb on Nov 27, 2018 Nirupama Das’ voice quivered as she spoke about seeking justice for her father. Nirod Baran Das, a respected lawyer, took his own life last month, about three months after relatives said he began talking about the humiliation of being treated as a foreigner in the land where he was
READ MOREChina’s Most Popular App Is Full of Hate; WeChat groups have become a major vector for anti-Muslim conspiracy theories0
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- November 27, 2018
By Frankie Huang | November 27, 2018, 10:05 AM A Trump supporter holds up a sign during an anti-sharia law rally organized by ACT for America on June 10 2017 in New York. (KENA BETANCUR/AFP/Getty Images) The last two years have seen a crackdown on Islamic practices by the Chinese government, from the incarceration of
READ MOREIndian Islands Andaman and Nocober: Search for slain American missionary could ‘wipe out’ Sentinalese0
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- November 26, 2018
Reuters November 26, 2018 An American self-styled adventurer and Christian missionary, John Allen Chau, has been killed and buried by a tribe of hunter-gatherers on a remote island in the Indian Ocean where he had gone to proselytize, according to local law enforcement officials, in this undated image obtained from a social media on Nov. 23,
READ MOREBangladesh: Trial Opens for Suspects in Café Terror Attack0
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- November 26, 2018
By Kamran Reza Chowdhury on Nov 26, 2018 The trial of eight men accused of having a role in Bangladesh’s bloodiest terrorist attack – the July 2016 siege of a café in Dhaka’s diplomatic quarter – began on Monday with their indictment before a special court, officials said. An anti-terrorism tribunal brought charges of conspiring
READ MOREQatar Airways to expand Iran flights despite US sanctions0
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- November 26, 2018
AFP November 26, 2018 0 A Qatar Airways airplane is seen during take-off. — File Qatar Airways announced on Monday it is expanding operations in Iran, despite US sanctions on the Islamic republic and a Gulf diplomatic rift over accusations Doha was too close to Tehran. The carrier will begin twice-weekly flights to Isfahan in February
READ MOREMaldivian opposition leader alleges President Solih has “secret” deal with India on mega project0
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- November 26, 2018
By Editor on November 26, 2018 Male, November 27 (AVAS): The Maldivian opposition party, Progressive Party of the Maldives (PPM) led by former President Abdulla Yameen,has charged that the Ibrahim Solih government has entered a “secret” deal with India to increase the Indian military presence in the archipelago and also to give the I-haven Special Economic Zone project
READ MOREBook review; THUG – This Terrifying Indian Gang Strangled 105 People in One Winter0
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- November 26, 2018
Hard cover 356 pages, Publisher: Granta Books (April 30, 2005) Language: English, ISBN-10: 1862076049,ISBN-13: 978-1862076044 Stranglers from the Thuggee sect in Aurangabad prison, drawn by Alphonse de Neuville. SourceComposite: Sean Culligan/OZY. Image: Getty Why you should care Suave, disciplined and ruthless — highwaymen don’t come more effective than Feringeea. Some people are too evil to forget
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