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Protestor's death fuels fresh tension in Modi’s home state
Police claim 28-year-old Shwetang Patel died on way to hospital after falling unconscious while in custody
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Medical charity MSF takes legal action against makers of Bollywood film 'Phantom'
MSF says misrepresentation of the medical group could put its aid workers deployed in conflict zones at risk
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Two British journalists detained in southeast Turkey
Police detained Jake Hanrahan and Philip Pendlebury for filming clashes between Turkish forces and Kurdish militants
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Qatar Airways 'shamed' into altering marriage, pregnancy policies
No amount of hiding behind ‘best airline’ awards has kept the truth about the airline from emerging
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British Library rejects Taliban trove fearing terror laws
The British Library was reluctant to discuss the decision, referring queries to the government
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Woman tries selling college diploma on eBay to pay off $50,000 student loan
Why waste four years of your life for a piece of paper when you can just buy mine, Ritter writes on eBay
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China investigates executives at party newspaper's website
Chairman and vice chairman of People.cn Co Ltd are being inspected for suspected crimes relating to bribery
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Pentagon teams up with Apple, Boeing, Harvard to develop wearable tech
Innovation will create flexible electronics to be worn by soldiers and embedded on warplanes
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Sweden to tighten anti-terrorism to stem Islamic State recruitment
Around 250-300 people have travelled from Sweden to Syria or Iraq to join Islamic State
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Austria police says 71 migrants, including children, found dead in truck
Authorities found a "Syrian travel document" in the truck among the decomposing bodies
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Landslides kill five in Nepal quake zone
Rescuers are still searching for a nine-year-old boy missing since an overnight landslide
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Australian visa check operation dumped after community outrage
Under the Migration Act, an officer may ask a person they know or suspect, is a non-citizen to show their ID
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Rare grey pearls to fetch up to $7 million in Hong Kong
The necklace already holds the world record at auction after it was sold for $3.35m at Christie's in London 2012
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Tel Aviv's 'Iranian embassy' turns out to be atomic hoax
Turns out to be the upcoming launch of new film 'Atomic Falafel', an atomic comedy
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Student dies after shooting at Georgia university
The person was struck by a bullet near or inside the student union
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Boeing gets $1.49 bln order to build 13 surveillance planes
Nine planes were being built for the US Navy, while the four others were designed for the Royal Australian Air Force
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Fears grow for Nepal's pregnant women after quake
More than 30,000 women have given birth in the worst-hit districts since the disaster
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Saudi King Salman to meet Obama at White House on September 4
It will be Salman's first visit to US since ascending the throne in January
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Migrant crisis forcing divided Europe to look ahead
Four months ago, EU leaders were jolted into action when 800 people drowned in a single boat
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Islamic State struggle to make progress in Afghanistan
The group has been trying for months to establish itself in Afghanistan's eastern badlands
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Thailand issues arrest warrant for suspect in second blast
Fourteen foreigners were among the 20 people killed in the attack at the famous Hindu shrine in Bangkok
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Iran premieres big-budget epic film 'Muhammad' (pbuh)
Director says the aim of his work is to reclaim the rightful image of Islam, which he said extremists have distorted
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Asia extends global stocks rally as upbeat US GDP soothes sentiment
On Thursday, the S&P 500 recovered about half of its 11% drop over six days. Japan's Nikkei stock index was up 2.4%
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Apple event set for Sept 9 in San Francisco
In trademark enigmatic style, the emailed invitations provided little more than the time and place of the event
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Record one billion people used Facebook in a single day
This was the first time that the social network has reached this milestone
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Pakistan's sincere efforts for peace being misconstrued: Nisar
Interior minister says Pakistan expects that there would be no discrimination at international level on this issue
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Instagram images no longer just squares
The formats will be available in the apps latest updates on both, Android and iOS devices
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Too loud: Nigeria to shut down Churches, Mosques because of 'noisy worship'
Residents complaining in unprecedented number that they can barely hear themselves think among church, mosque speakers
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Nigeria shuts down churches over noisy worship
Neighbours of one church say they are disturbed by a congregation of mainly pregnant women, young mothers & children
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What's in a name? The debate over labelling 'migrants' and 'refugees'
Deciding how to label huge numbers of people moving around the globe has proved thorny and politically-loaded question
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North Dakota permits police taser drones
The state has become the first to permit police drones with weapons
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Saudi Arabia executes Pakistani for drug trafficking
It brought to 128 the number of executions so far this year in Saudi Arabia
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Poland warns rumoured Nazi 'gold train' may be booby-trapped
Two men claimed to have found an armoured train car in the southwestern city of Walbrzych
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Not lovin' it: Can’t have it your way, McDonald’s tells Burger King
Burger King had proposed McDonalds to create a hybrid “McWhopper” burger to celebrate International Peace Day
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In Afghanistan's Helmand, the Taliban are talking war, not peace
Taliban are undefeated and making gains but are still far from their goal of retaking Kabul
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US to deploy heavy weapons to Poland in 2016
Polish Defence Minister Tomasz Siemoniak says we expect this deployment to take place in mid-2016
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Pakistan unable to release ‘mentally ill’ Indian prisoners who can't remember who they are
Ministry of Home Affairs has decided to put up their pictures on social media, inviting people to identify them
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London police using social media-savvy Muslims to counter extremist propaganda
Top counter-terrorism officer admits his department did not engage effectively with Muslim community in past
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Kazakhstan to host IAEA nuclear fuel bank to assist non-proliferation
The storage facility will become fully operational in 2017
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Three children killed in police raid on house in Toba Tek Singh
Security forces carried out the raid following a tip-off that a terrorist was seeking refuge in the house
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Dutch air safety body to publish final MH17 crash report in October
Two thirds of the 298 victims were Dutch
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Suicide bomber kills two Iraqi generals in Anbar
The bomber killed major general and a staff brigadier, says military spokesman
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China arrests 12 over Tianjin blasts as toll rises
Those arrested include include the chairman and senior managers of the firm whose chemical storage facility exploded
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Moroccan model competes to become first Muslim Miss Italy
Ahlam El Brinis, 20, defies critics who say she is insulting Islam by taking part in the pageant
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Woman in China robbed, molested by Uber driver: report
Driver molests woman, takes pictures and warns her he would make the pictures public if she went to the police
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Net migration to Britain hits record high
a net 330,000 people moved to Britain in the year ending March 2015
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US shooting video shocks Internet in 'new frontier'
Internet users had a first-person view of his horrific crime after the killer fired off tweets while on the run
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US agrees to sell AH-1Z attack helicopters to Pakistan
US Department of Defence states sale to government of Pakistan is valued at approximately $57.9 million
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Muslim leaders in Indonesia ask man to change ‘inappropriate' name
Muslim scholars appeal to govt to revoke Banyuwangi’s identity card until he agrees to change his name
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NASA tests spacecraft 'Orion' that will take man to Mars
In the mock flight test engineers deliberately failed two different parachutes to test how it would arrive on Earth