BEIJING — Police shot dead 14 people in China's far west region of Xinjiang — an area where many Muslims are resentful of the Chinese government — after a group of assailants attacked officers with explosive devices and long knives, state media reported Monday.
The attackers killed two...
Sheeba Rani has been ostracised by many friends and relatives for marrying Nigerian Sambo Davis
Africans staying in and around India's commercial capital, Mumbai (Bombay), complain of indiscriminate racism and constant police harassment, reports the BBC's Zubair Ahmed.
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India makes headway with ELF site construction
By James Hardy
3/4/2013
Imagery taken by DigitalGlobe in January 2013 provides an update on the construction of India's new Extremely Low-Frequency (ELF) facility in the south of the country.
The construction began in March 2012, when Admiral...
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Celebrating their number-one ranking at Copacabana Beach is way cooler than reading this article.
Without Brazilians we wouldn't have samba and Rio carnival; we wouldn't have the soccer beauty of Pele and Ronaldo; we wouldn't have...
Centre has given the nod to setup Counter Insurgency and Anti Terrorism Schools (CIATS) in Nagaland and nine other states in the country.
Informing this, union minister of sate for Home Affairs Jitendra Singh told the Rajya Sabha in a written reply, Wednesday that the government of India has...
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has suspended humanitarian activities in two of Pakistan's largest cities, Peshawar and Karachi.
The move follows the killing of Khalil Dale, a British nurse working for the group.
His beheaded body was found on 29 April, after he was...
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India's Dalit icon Mayawati has quit as the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh state after her party's poor showing in crucial assembly elections.
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