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  Asia Bibi's lawyer leaves Pakistan citing threats to his life

  Agence France-Presse . Islamabad | Updated at 02:37pm on November 03, 2018

  The Pakistani lawyer who saved a Christian woman convicted of blasphemy from the gallows left the country on Saturday, saying his life was under threat....

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  Sri Lankan speaker defies president to call parliament

  Agence France-Presse . Colombo | Updated at 01:12am on November 03, 2018

  Sri Lanka’s speaker Friday summoned parliament to meet next week in defiance of the president as a constitutional crisis darkened with an MP saying he...

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  Myanmar by-elections a test for leader buffeted by crises

  Reuters . Myitkyina | Updated at 01:11am on November 03, 2018

  Asked what Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has changed since becoming Myanmar’s leader two years ago, most residents of Kachin state in the far...

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  Killings in India’s northeast raise tension over citizenship survey

  Reuters . New Delhi | Updated at 12:24am on November 03, 2018

  Suspected Indian militants shot dead five Bengali-speaking Hindu men in a sensitive border state late on Thursday, police said, as tension grows over a controversial...

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  ULFA denies involvement in killing of five Bengali-speaking workers in Assam

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:16pm on November 02, 2018

  A day after five Bengali-speaking daily wage workers were killed in Bisonimukh village of Tinsukia in Assam of India, allegedly by ULFA (I), the outfit...

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  Pakistan PM praised for stand against hardliners, as blasphemy protests persist

  Agence-France-Presse . Islamabad | Updated at 02:01am on November 02, 2018

  Pakistan’s Imran Khan won praise for his stance against religious hardliners Thursday, as demonstrators blocked major roads to protest the Supreme Court’s overturning of a...

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  Maldives ex-leader Nasheed ends exile

  Agence France-Presse . Colombo | Updated at 01:57am on November 02, 2018

  Former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed returned home from exile Thursday, two days after the country’s Supreme Court withdrew a warrant for his arrest.Nasheed, who had...

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  President’s party u-turns on parliament suspension

  Agence France-Presse . Colombo | Updated at 12:17am on November 02, 2018

  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...

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  Pak Islamists protest for second day after Asia Bibi acquitted of blasphemy

  Reuters . Karachi | Updated at 04:04pm on November 01, 2018

  Islamist 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...

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  Sri Lanka attorney general refuses to endorse sacking of PM

  Agence France-Presse . Colombo | Updated at 12:18am on November 01, 2018

  Sri Lanka’s attorney general Wednesday refused to endorse the president’s dismissal of the prime minister for a former strongman accused of rights abuses, the clearest...