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  Toxic alcohol kills 93 in India

  Agence France-Presse . Guwahati | Updated at 01:56am on February 24, 2019

  Ninety-three workers have died and at least 200 others have been hospitalised in northeastern India after drinking toxic liquor, officials said Saturday, in the latest...

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  Indo-Pak standoff very dangerous: Trump

  Agence France-Presse . Washington | Updated at 12:38am on February 24, 2019

  US president Donald Trump voiced alarm Friday at the ‘very dangerous situation’ between India and Pakistan, warning that New Delhi was considering ‘very strong’ action...

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  Myanmar army warns against changing essence of constitution

  Agence France-Presse . Yangon | Updated at 12:33am on February 24, 2019

  Myanmar’s military Saturday said they would thwart attempts by leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party to alter the ‘essence’ of the country’s controversial constitution, putting...

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  India, Pakistan crank up war of words

  New Age Desk | Updated at 12:15am on February 24, 2019

  Pakistan army chief General Qamar Bajwa, during a visit to the Line of Control on Friday, warned India against aggression, saying any misadventure would receive...

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  Fire at Indian airshow destroys hundreds of cars

  Reuters . New Delhi | Updated at 06:43pm on February 23, 2019

  A fire at an airshow in India destroyed three hundred cars on Saturday, a senior fire official said, the latest accident to mar the government-run...

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  Bootleg liquor kills 84 in Assam, 200 hospitalised

  Reuters . Guwahati | Updated at 11:51am on February 23, 2019

  At least 41 Indian tea plantation workers have died from drinking toxic bootleg liquor after receiving their weekly wages, and 20 are critically ill in...

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  Suu Kyi drops off UN agenda in Geneva next week

  Reuters . Geneva | Updated at 12:55am on February 23, 2019

  Myanmar will be represented by a government minister at a UN conference in Geneva next week, and not by the country’s de facto leader Aung...

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  Suu Kyi woos investors to crisis-hit Rakhine

  Reuters . Ngapali Beach | Updated at 12:42am on February 23, 2019

  Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi called for investment in the crisis-hit western state of Rakhine on Friday, saying the world had ‘focused narrowly on...

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  Kashmiri students flee Indian backlash after suicide attack

  Agence France-Presse . Srinagar | Updated at 01:44pm on February 21, 2019

  Junaid Ayub Rather cowered alongside 30 other students in a small room for two nights while mobs chanted for their blood outside, before finally escaping...

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  UN, US for steps to defuse tensions

  Agence France-Presse . New York | Updated at 11:27pm on February 20, 2019

  UN secretary general Antonio Guterres on Tuesday called on India and Pakistan to take immediate steps to defuse tensions and offered to help broker a...