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India’s ruling party has seized on the chaotic handling of football legend Lionel Messi’s appearance in Kolkata to attack the government in West Bengal, turning the Argentinian’s visit into an election-season test for one of the country’s most politically consequential states. The visit descended into chaos as crowd unrest prompted arrests and an apology from West Bengal’s Chief...

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Three men had to be rescued after they fell into a 15-metre (50ft) deep well in India on December 5. The accident happened after the men were involved in a drunken brawl at a funeral ceremony in India’s southern state of Kerala.

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The United States and Pakistan are reviving defence and minerals cooperation in a bid to reset their uneasy ties, marking a policy shift that has stirred anxiety in India even as Washington seeks to reassure New Delhi. Washington has approved hundreds of millions of dollars in upgrades for Pakistan’s ageing F-16 fighter jets and opened the door to more than US$1 billion in finan...

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Bangladesh’s interim government said it would fly a leader of the 2024 uprising, a candidate in coming elections, for treatment in Singapore after an assassination attempt that left him critically wounded. Masked attackers shot student leader Sharif Osman Hadi on Friday as he left a mosque in the capital Dhaka, wounding him in the ear. The shooting took place one day after autho...

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One of India’s poorest states is facing scrutiny over its public health performance after data showed thousands of registered HIV cases in a single district of Bihar, including hundreds of children, despite years of national progress against the disease. Local media reports said around 7,400 people in Sitamarhi district had been registered as HIV-positive, including more than 40...

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