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Present: Centre for Experiential, Immersive Learning. Past: Reuters, AFP, The Indian Express. Reported in South Asia, Afghanistan, Iran. @Columbiauniversity

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France Election 2024 Live: Left and centre leading far right, pollsters say reuters.com/world/france/fra…
France Election 2024: Left leads as far right stunned by loss - as it happened

France Election 2024: Left leads as far right stunned by loss - as it happened

France was on course for a hung parliament with a leftist alliance ahead of Macron's centrist alliance, and the far right pushed into third.

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India's far-right cow vigilantes bolster clout before high-stake elections | Reuters reuters.com/world/india/indi…
India's far-right cow vigilantes bolster clout before high-stake elections

India's far-right cow vigilantes bolster clout before high-stake elections

Vishnu Dabad attributes his rise from poverty to powerful local politician to an animal: the cow.

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India's BJP, the world's biggest party, plots election drive of epic scale

India's BJP, the world's biggest party, plots election drive of epic scale

Indian activist Partha Chaudhury is on a war footing as he strides out of the ruling BJP's regional headquarters in Kolkata armed with passion and pages of voter lists.

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Top Indian wrestler accuses government of silence over sexual harassment probe

Top Indian wrestler accuses government of silence over sexual harassment probe

An Olympic wrestler on Saturday criticised the pace of a police inquiry into sexual harassment accusations against the chief of India's national wrestling body.

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Women's turnout in national elections edged ahead of men for the first time in 2019 and is projected to rise further next year. According to Reuters interviews, winning women voters is central to BJP's growth strategy. More from @Reuters @rupamjn: reut.rs/3NeNMTo
Insight: Modi's BJP courts India's rising election power: Women

Insight: Modi's BJP courts India's rising election power: Women

Ranika Jaiswal's family in Varanasi has boasted a string of officials in India's ruling BJP party over the last four decades. Now she wants a piece of the action.

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Indian judges concerned as government seeks bigger role in judicial appointments

Indian judges concerned as government seeks bigger role in judicial appointments

Senior officials in India's government have said they want to have a bigger role in choosing judges, a demand several lawyers and judges say threatens the independence of the judiciary.

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For the first time in her life, Asha, a street cleaner in the Indian city of Jammu will be allowed to vote in upcoming local elections. And she's in no doubt who will get her ballot - Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party reut.rs/3vYgdLs
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The BJP is counting on the addition of up to a million mostly Hindu voters as it pushes to take control of the region of Jammu and Kashmir that is hotly contested by Pakistan and has been governed almost exclusively by Muslim chief ministers reut.rs/3vXmA1K
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Four gay couples in India ask Supreme Court to legalise same-sex marriage, setting the stage for a legal face-off with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government which has in the past refused to legalise such marriages. By @arpanc_ @rupamjn @Reuters reuters.com/world/india/gay-…
Gay couples in India ask Supreme Court to legalise same-sex marriage

Gay couples in India ask Supreme Court to legalise same-sex marriage

Four gay couples have asked India's Supreme Court to recognise same-sex marriages, setting the stage for a legal face-off with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government which has in the past refused...

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reuters.com/world/asia-pacif… Indian traders have started loading 40,000 tonnes of rice for prompt shipment to Sri Lanka in the first major food aid since Colombo secured credit line from New Delhi. @MayankBhardwaj9 @DevjyotGhoshal @krishnadas56 @j_uditha #SriLankaCrisis #SriLanka
India starts supplying rice to Sri Lanka in first major food aid

India starts supplying rice to Sri Lanka in first major food aid

Indian traders have started loading 40,000 tonnes of rice for prompt shipment to Sri Lanka in the first major food aid since Colombo secured a credit line from New Delhi, two officials told Reuters...

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U.S. congressman posts family Christmas picture with guns, days after school shooting reut.rs/3Gibesq
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Omar’s story is one of the most detailed accounts of how the Taliban vowed no revenge. One Afghan family tells a different story reut.rs/3CQKFbV
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One month since the Taliban captured the capital of Kabul, bankers fear fewer dollars could inflate the cost of food or electricity and make it harder to afford imports, spelling further misery for Afghans. @johnodonnell21 @rupamjn report reut.rs/2XiXDQn
Running out of dollars, Afghan banks ask Taliban for more cash

Running out of dollars, Afghan banks ask Taliban for more cash

Afghanistan's banks are running out of dollars, and may have to close their doors to customers unless the Taliban government releases funds soon, three people with direct knowledge of the matter said.

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Serum Institute, the world’s top vaccine maker, is under heavy pressure. @ugalani explains why India’s flawed procurement policy is straining fraught ties with the private sector: reut.rs/2QP3tpB
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Exclusive: Scientists say India government ignored warnings amid coronavirus surge reut.rs/2ShcUP4
EXCLUSIVE: EXCLUSIVE Scientists say India government ignored warnings amid coronavirus surge

EXCLUSIVE: EXCLUSIVE Scientists say India government ignored warnings amid coronavirus surge

A forum of scientific advisers set up by the government warned Indian officials in early March of a new and more contagious variant of the coronavirus taking hold in the country, five scientists who...

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