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Sri Lankan navy retrieves debris of aircraft gunned down in 1998
Sri Lankan navy personnel and police officers look at the debris of a Russian-built Antonov passenger aircraft they retrieved from the sea in Iranativu, off Mannar coast, about 180 kilometers (110 miles) north of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sunday, May 5, 2013. Sri Lankan police and navy began salvaging the passenger…
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An Indian polling officer applies indelible ink mark on voter’s finger
An Indian Muslim woman arrives with her child at a polling station to caste her vote in Bangalore, India, Sunday, May 5, 2013. The southern Indian state of Karnataka which has 41.8 million voters including 21.3 million women headed to the polls Sunday. There are 2948 candidates contesting for 224…
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Pakistan’s opposition supporters cheer Nawaz Sharif at election campaign
In this Monday, April 29, 2013 photo, Pakistani villagers listen to an activist from the Association for Gender Awareness & Human Empowerment lecturing about the benefits of voting in Mateela village near Sargodha, Pakistan. As the country gets set to vote in the upcoming nationwide election that will see a…
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Bangladeshi activists throw stones in protest against anti-blasphemy law
Bangladeshi protesters throw stones at policemen during a protest in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday, May 5, 2013. Police in Bangladesh’s capital fired rubber bullets to disperse stone-throwing Islamic activists Sunday during a protest to demand that the government enact an anti-blasphemy law. <AP Photo/Ashraful Alam Tito>
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India celebrates 100 years of filmmaking
New Delhi – Four top Indian filmmakers have come together to make “Bombay Talkies,” a film that celebrates 100 years of Indian cinema. The film hits theaters Friday. India’s first full-length feature film, “Raja Harishchandra” or “King Harishchandra,” was released in 1913. That film was produced and directed…
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The Indian free school founder teaches slum children under bridge
Underprivileged boys take down notes from a blackboard painted on a concrete wall at a free school run under a mass transit bridge in New Delhi, India on Dec. 11, 2012. Rajesh Kumar Sharma, the founder of a free school for slum children, teaches a class at a free school…
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Elderly Indian widows pray on bank of Ganga river
An elderly Indian widow cleans rice sitting in the front of her small living quarters in an Ashram, on the bank of Holy river Ganges in Varanasi, India , Sunday, April 28, 2013. In India, being a widow remains one of the worst stigmas. When her husband dies, the widow…
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Bangladesh’s garment industry hit by building collapse
EU considers action as Pope condemns condition of workers as ‘slave labour’ The European Union is considering trade action against Bangladesh, which has preferential access to EU markets for its garments, to pressure Dhaka to improve safety standards after a building collapse killed more than 400 factory workers. Pope Francis…
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Pakistani supporters observe 2nd anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death
Supporters of Pakistan’s religious party Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI) receive food distributed at a rally to pay tribute to al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Quetta, Pakistan on Thursday, May 2, 2013. Hundreds of JUI supporters observed the second anniversary of bin Laden’s death on May 2, 2011 in a secret…
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Convicted Indian spy dies from Pakistani jail blow
Pakistani policemen carry the coffin of Sarabjit Singh, the Indian prisoner who was injured in an attack inside jail last week and died of wounds early Thursday. Singh spent more than 21 years in Pakistan after being convicted of spying for India and involvement in a series of bomb blasts…
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