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    Bangladesh removes Mujib from banknotes, bans Hasina’s speeches

    Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal on Thursday ordered a ban on disseminating deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s hate speeches in the mainstream media and social media networks as the tribunal is set to try

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    Freight train to link Pakistan with Russia; trial in March

    Russia and Pakistan are set to be linked by freight train line that will pass through Iran and Azerbaijan with the first trial run likely to take place in March next year, a Pakistan minister has said in an interview...

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    Fear grips Pakistan’s Kurram district as 50 killed in cold blood

    Fear gripped Pakistan’s northwestern Kurram district on Friday as the death toll from two terror attacks rose to 50, with authorities imposing a curfew and suspending mobile phone services in the remote region

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    Air emergency in Delhi: smog halts life, schools closed

    India’s capital New Delhi switched schools to online classes on Monday until further notice as worsening toxic smog surged past 60 times the World Health Organisation’s recommended daily maximum.

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    Sri Lanka’s leftist ruling coalition wins election in landslide

    Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s leftist coalition has achieved a landslide victory in snap elections, delivering the Marxist-leaning leader a powerful mandate to ease punishing austerity measures

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    Suicide Bomber Kills 26 At Pakistan Railway Station 

    Saturday’s assault came a little over a week after a powerful bomb attached to a motorcycle exploded near a vehicle carrying police officers assigned to protect polio workers in the province

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    India & Canada expel envoys in Sikh separatist killing row

    India on Monday asked Canadian diplomats in Delhi to leave country by Saturday after Ottawa said it was investigating its Indian ambassador and other diplomats as "persons of interest", after killing of a Sikh leader

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    All 11 Life Imprisonment Convicts In Bilkis Bano Gang Rape Case Released

    All the eleven convicts sentenced to life imprisonment for the 2002 post-Godhra Bilkis Bano gang rape and murder of seven members of her family on Monday walked out of Godhra sub-jail.

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    Droupadi Murmu takes oath as India’s first tribal president

    The former school teacher and state governor was elected to the largely ceremonial position last week with 64 percent of the vote by members of India’s parliament and state assemblies.

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    Sri Lanka: Presidential Secretariat Begins Operations After 100 Days of Unrest

    Sri Lanka's Presidential Secretariat, which was stormed by a sea of anti-government protesters in early July, resumed operation from Monday amidst tight security, 107 days after the building's entry gate was blocked

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    Worshippers Attacked During Friday Prayers in Pakistan, 56 Killed

    One witness saw the attacker clad in black Shalwar-Kameez rush into the mosque during Friday prayers and open "fire with a pistol", picking out the worshippers "one-by-one". He "then blew himself up", Ali Asghar said.

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    Stuck In Ukraine Varsity, 600 Indian Students Await Evacuation Amid Shortage Of Food, Water

    More than 600 Indian students are currently stranded in a university located in Sumy, a city in north-eastern Ukraine, hoping that they will soon be evacuated as "continuous firing and bombing" by the Russia continues.

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    India to sell shares of people who migrated to Pakistan

    India’s government is to sell more than US$400 million (RM1.7 million) worth of shares left behind by people who fled to Pakistan or China after wars with those countries.

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    Modi hails India's 'successful establishment of nuclear triad'

    "Today is historic because it marks the completing of the successful establishment of the nuclear triad. India's nuclear triad will be an important pillar of global peace and stability," said Modi on Twitter.

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    Pakistani religious scholar Maulana Samiul Haq assassinated in Rawalpindi

    Maulana Samiul Haq, a Pakistani religious scholar and a former senator, has been assassinated, Pakistani media reports say. Samiul Haq was the chief of the Jamiat Ulema Islam-Sami (JUI-S).

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    Imran Khan lands in Beijing on four-day visit, to hold talks with Xi Jinping

    Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan landed in Beijing Friday morning on a four-day visit. His first visit to China since taking over as PM, Khan is expected to hold bilateral talks with President.

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    Sri Lanka crisis: president’s party makes u-turn on parliament suspension

    The Sri Lankan president’s party on Thursday reignited a constitutional crisis over which of two rival prime ministers heads the government by insisting that parliament will remain suspended.

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    Massive protest in Pakistan for second day after women acquitted of blasphemy

    Protesters blocked roads in Pakistan's major cities for a second day on Thursday, opposing a Supreme Court decision the previous day to acquit a Christian woman on death row for blasphemy allegations, media said.

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    Modi unveils towering statue of India's independence leader

    India's prime minister on Wednesday unveiled a towering bronze statue of Sardar Vallabbhai Patel, a key independence leader and the country's first home minister after British colonialists left in 1947.

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    Pakistan court overturns christian woman's death sentence in blasphemy case, protests erupt

    Pakistan's Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned the conviction of Asia Bibi, a Christian mother facing execution for blasphemy, in a landmark case which has incited deadly violence.

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    Afghan Army helicopter crashes, killing 25 on board: Officials

    The aircraft crashed due to "bad weather" in Anar Dara district, Farah provincial governor spokesman Nasir Mehri said, but the Taliban claimed its terrorists brought it down.

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    Korean NGOs protest against conferment of Seoul Peace Prize to Modi, call it a 'disgrace'

    At least 20 South Korean nonprofits, including human rights groups, have raised strong objections to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi being awarded the prestigious Seoul Peace Prize.

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    Nationwide protests in India over police agency turmoil

    India’s main opposition staged nationwide protests Friday, accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of removing the head of the premier investigation agency in order to scuttle a probe into.

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    Pakistan secures $6 billion rescue package from Saudi Arabia

    Pakistan said Saudi Arabia will provide a $6 billion package of loans and deferred payments in an effort to resuscitate Islamabad's flagging economy, struggling under the weight of a whopping $18.

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