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Monsoon deluge in Indian cities causes traffic chaos, sewage swirls
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Monsoon deluge in Indian cities causes traffic chaos, sewage swirls

Persistent heavy rains have caused widespread disruption in India's major cities and severe floods in the rugged northeast have killed…
India searches for missing air force plane, no wreckage found
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India searches for missing air force plane, no wreckage found

Indian ships and aircraft searched on Saturday for an air force plane that went missing over the Bay of Bengal…
Spiritual head of Shia sect offers LE10 million to Tahya Masr Fund
Egypt

Spiritual head of Shia sect offers LE10 million to Tahya Masr Fund

Mufaddal Saifuddin, spiritual head of the Dawoodi Bohra Muslim community, made a LE10 million donation to the Tahya Masr Fund…
India’s Kerala imposes ‘fat tax’ on junk food to counter obesity
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India’s Kerala imposes ‘fat tax’ on junk food to counter obesity

India’s peaceful tourist hotspot Kerala has become the first state in the country to impose a “fat tax” on junk…
Huge shipment of banned painkiller Tramadol seized in Ain Sokhna harbor
Egypt

Huge shipment of banned painkiller Tramadol seized in Ain Sokhna harbor

The Egyptian Customs Authority and Al-Ain al-Sokhna investigations department, affiliated to the general department for Suez Canal security, has confiscated…
India arrests five suspected of plotting Islamic State attacks
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India arrests five suspected of plotting Islamic State attacks

Indian counter-terrorism officials on Wednesday arrested five men on suspicion of plotting a series of attacks across the country on…
Egypt becomes world’s fourth-biggest weapons importer: report
Egypt

Egypt becomes world’s fourth-biggest weapons importer: report

Egypt became the world’s fourth-biggest weapons importer, spending almost US$2.3 billion, in 2015 the consulting company IHS Inc. said in…
Forest fires and logging threaten India’s progress on climate goals
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Forest fires and logging threaten India’s progress on climate goals

Since the end of April, fires in parts of India's northern states of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh have destroyed or…
Dam completion signifies growing Indian influence in Afghanistan
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Dam completion signifies growing Indian influence in Afghanistan

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Afghanistan on Saturday to mark the completion of a nearly US$300 million hydroelectric dam…
India cancels visa to exiled Uighur leader, draws opposition rebuke
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India cancels visa to exiled Uighur leader, draws opposition rebuke

India said on Monday it had withdrawn a visa to an exiled Uighur leader whom China has long branded a…
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