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  Lanka cancels election rallies over new coronavirus wave

  Agence France-Presse . Colombo | Updated at 11:44pm on July 12, 2020

  Sri Lanka’s ruling party Sunday called off its rallies ahead of upcoming parliamentary elections and delayed the international airport’s reopening over a surge in virus...

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  23 killed in Nepal floods, landslides

  New Age Desk | Updated at 11:40pm on July 11, 2020

  Heavy rains triggered flash floods and landslides that killed at least 23 people and displaced thousands in western Nepal, officials said on Saturday, reports The...

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  Nepal cable operators ban Indian news

  Agence France-Presse . Kathmandu | Updated at 12:31am on July 11, 2020

  Nepal’s cable television operators have suspended Indian news channels for ‘objectionable’ reporting on the country’s prime minister as tensions between the neighbours rise over a...

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  US bans PIA over licence scandal

  Agence France-Presse . Karachi | Updated at 11:55pm on July 10, 2020

  The United States has banned Pakistan International Airlines from operating chartered flights to the country, the airline said, after it announced nearly 150 pilots would...

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  Furore after Indian police shoot gangster dead

  Agence France-Presse . Lucknow | Updated at 02:31pm on July 10, 2020

  Indian police shot dead one of the country’s most wanted gangsters Friday just a day after his dramatic arrest, sparking accusations of a staged extra-judicial...

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  Fair and unlovely: India confronts dark-skin bias

  Agence France-Presse. New Delhi | Updated at 01:42pm on July 10, 2020

  When Chandana Hiran was a child, strangers would urge her to lighten her skin. Today the Indian student is leading a campaign against whitening creams...

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  Kashmir BJP leader, family members shot dead

  Online Desk | Updated at 01:59pm on July 09, 2020

  A senior leader of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and his father and brother were shot dead Wednesday by suspected militants in north Kashmir’s Bandipora...

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  They’re going to kill me: last words of George Floyd

  Agence France-Presse . Washington, United States | Updated at 10:49am on July 09, 2020

  George Floyd said that he couldn’t breathe more than 20 times, called out for his children and late mother and said that officers would ‘kill’...

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  Ex-India navy officer refuses to appeal against death sentence

  Agence France-Presse. Islamabad | Updated at 10:42am on July 09, 2020

  A former Indian naval officer on death row in Pakistan for alleged spying has refused to lodge an appeal against his conviction and will try...

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  Sri Lanka rangers spot possible rare baby elephant twins

  Agence France-Presse. Colombo | Updated at 04:03pm on July 08, 2020

  A pair of baby elephants feeding from the same mother have been spotted in a Sri Lankan national park, with officials speculating Wednesday the two...