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Modi remains roundly popular after a decade in office that has seen India rise in diplomatic clout and economic power

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Modi the favourite as India readies for election marathon

India begins voting Friday in a six-week election, with Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s victory all but assured, raising concerns for the health...

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Yellow ribbons are displayed near the main gates at a port in South Jeolla Province, near where the salvaged Sewol ferry sits

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South Korea mourns 10th anniversary of ferry disaster

South Korea on Tuesday marked the 10th anniversary of the country’s worst-ever maritime disaster, when hundreds of schoolchildren died after the overloaded Sewol ferry...

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The Quai Branly Museum in Paris contains 79,000 African art objects

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‘Titanic’ task of finding plundered African art in French museums

With tens of thousands of African artworks in French museums, curators face a huge task in trying to identify which of these were plundered...

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Author Salman Rushdie lost sight in one eye in the near-fatal attack in 2022

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Salman Rushdie recounts stabbing in new memoir ‘Knife’

British-American author Salman Rushdie recounts the near-fatal stabbing at a public event in 2022 that left him blind in one eye and his journey...

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$US President Joe Biden (R) shakes hands with the Prime Minister of Iraq Mohammed Shia al-Sudani in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on April 15, 2024. Sudani's trip to Washington, his first since taking office in October 2022, was originally expected to focus on the presence of US troops in Iraq as part of an anti-jihadist coalition. But the meeting will now be dominated by the fractious situation in the region after Iraq's neighbor Iran launched a massive missile and drone assault on Israel on April 13, 2024.$ $US President Joe Biden (R) shakes hands with the Prime Minister of Iraq Mohammed Shia al-Sudani in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on April 15, 2024. Sudani's trip to Washington, his first since taking office in October 2022, was originally expected to focus on the presence of US troops in Iraq as part of an anti-jihadist coalition. But the meeting will now be dominated by the fractious situation in the region after Iraq's neighbor Iran launched a massive missile and drone assault on Israel on April 13, 2024.$

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Biden, Iraqi PM agree on talks for US-led coalition withdrawal

US President Joe Biden and Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohamed Shia al-Sudani said Monday they would keep working towards the withdrawal of a US-led anti-jihadist...

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