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India vote resumes with Kashmir poised to oppose Modi
India's six-week election resumed Monday including in Kashmir, where voters are expected to show their discontent with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's cancellation of their disputed territory's semi-autonomy and the security crackdown that followed."What we're telling voters now is that you have to make your voice heard," said former chief minister Omar Abdullah, whose National Conference party is campaigning for the restoration of Kashmir's former semi-autonomy.
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Joe Biden Says Donald Trump Is ‘Clearly Unhinged’ After 2020 Election Loss
“He just can’t accept the fact he’s lost, and he’s lost it when he lost," the president told donors on Saturday.
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Indonesia's Mount Ibu erupts again, spews huge ash tower
A volcano in eastern Indonesia erupted on Monday, spewing a huge ash tower more than five kilometres (three miles) into the sky after authorities raised its alert level to the second-highest last week.The alert level remained at the second-highest of a four-tiered system on Monday after authorities raised it last week, with an exclusion zone between three and five kilometres (two to three miles) around the volcano's crater.
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China accused of targeting overseas citizens for political activism
China is targeting citizens studying abroad for their political activism, rights group Amnesty International said Monday, with some students reporting harassment of family members back home.Amnesty International on Monday said Beijing's targeting of students has "engendered a 'climate of fear' on university campuses across Western Europe and North America, negatively impacting upon students' human rights."
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Johns Hopkins University Strikes Deal With Pro-Palestine Student Protesters
The agreement comes as protests and encampments against the war in Gaza have popped up across university campuses nationwide.
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Indonesia flood death toll rises to 41 with 17 missing
The number of people killed by flash floods and cold lava flow from a volcano in western Indonesia over the weekend has risen to 41 with 17 more missing, a local disaster agency official told AFP Monday.But from this morning it has grown again, the figure reached 41 (dead)," Ilham Wahab, West Sumatra disaster mitigation agency official, told AFP. Rescuers were searching for 17 still missing, three in Agam district and 14 in Tanah Datar, both the worst-hit areas of the flood and home to hundreds
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Asian markets mixed as traders pause ahead of US inflation data
Equities fluctuated Monday as traders took a breather after the past weeks' healthy run as they absorbed weak Chinese data and reports that the United States planned to ramp up tariffs on clean energy products from the Asian country.That came as the Wall Street Journal reported that the White House is looking at almost quadrupling tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles as part of a plan that will also target batteries and solar cells.
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