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  Myanmar civil society groups condemn conviction of Reuters reporters

  Reuters . Yangon | Updated at 12:10am on September 05, 2018

  Seventy-six Myanmar civil society groups called on Tuesday for the release of two jailed Reuters reporters, denouncing their conviction as unfair and an assault on...

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  Founder of militant Afghan Haqqani network dies

  Reuters . Kabul | Updated at 10:31am on September 04, 2018

  Jalaluddin Haqqani, founder of the militant Haqqani network, one of the most powerful and feared groups in the Afghan insurgency, has died after a long...

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  Bihar govt takes over children's shelters after finding abuse

  Reuters . Mumbai | Updated at 06:49pm on September 03, 2018

  Government authorities will take over all shelters in India's northern state of Bihar after an audit found that children were being verbally, physically and sexually...

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  Myanmar army apologises for ‘mistaken’ photos in book

  Reuters . Yangon | Updated at 11:50pm on September 03, 2018

  The Myanmar military issued a rare apology on Monday, acknowledging that two photographs it published in a book on the crisis over the Rohingya Muslim...

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  India's billion-dollar battle to build the world's biggest statue

  Agence France-Presse . Sardar Sarovar Dam | Updated at 02:07pm on September 03, 2018

  The world's biggest statue is rising in a remote corner of India to honour an independence hero but it could quickly be outdone by a...

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  Reuters reporters jailed for seven years in Myanmar secrets case

  Agence France-Presse . Yangon | Updated at 12:05am on September 04, 2018

  Two Reuters journalists accused of breaching Myanmar’s state secrets law while reporting on a massacre of Rohingya Muslims were jailed for seven years Monday, fuelling...

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  Life upended for those left off Indian citizenship list

  Agence France-Presse . Guwahati | Updated at 12:54am on September 03, 2018

  Nimai Hajong remembers almost nothing of the hills of eastern Bangladesh where he was born more than half a century ago, having fled as a...

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  Life upended for those left off Indian citizenship list

  Agence France-Presse . Guwahati | Updated at 10:31am on September 02, 2018

  Nimai Hajong remembers almost nothing of the hills of eastern Bangladesh where he was born more than half a century ago, having fled as a...

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  Myanmar seizes empty, abandoned ship

  Agence France-Presse . Yangon | Updated at 01:19am on September 02, 2018

  A stranded vessel empty of crew and goods that was found in Myanmar’s waters this week was being towed by a ship with 13 Indonesian...

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  Asian Art Biennial opens in Dhaka

  United News of Bangladesh. Dhaka | Updated at 07:05pm on September 01, 2018

  Bangladesh president Abdul Hamid said cultural activities had an important role to play in promoting the tradition of communal harmony including the development of the...