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The vital isolation of indigenous groups
Jan 19, 2019 00:09After the American missionary John Allen Chau ignored successive warnings, the isolated Sentinelese people killed him. But the threat the world's isolated tribes face is far from neutralized, as some have taken Chau’s death as an opportunity to argue that policies protecting them should be reversed.
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Hundreds of Rohingya families flee India for fear of deportation, persecution
Jan 17, 2019 15:08Some 2,000 Rohingya Muslims, who had fled to India from death and violence in Myanmar, have reportedly left the South Asian country too, fearing continued harassment there and possible deportation.
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Emirati boss cages Asian migrant workers ‘until they supported The Whites’: Report
Jan 13, 2019 03:25An Emirati man has reportedly confined a number of Asian migrant workers inside in a bird cage, and forced them to declare support for the United Arab Emirates national football team, nicknamed The Whites, during the 17th edition of the AFC Asian Cup in order to be set free.
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India making inroads in Central Asia
Jan 12, 2019 18:11The year 2018 has ended on a high note for India. With the recent visits of Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev to New Delhi and Indian President Ram Nath Kovind’s to Tajikistan, as well as Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev expected arrival in New Delhi early this years, India is clearly showing its keenness to engage with the landlocked Central Asian countries, with whom the only safe and sure connection is through the land bridge provided by the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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India rejects Pakistani accusations of involvement in Chinese consulate attack in Karachi
Jan 12, 2019 15:25India has rejected as "fabricated and scurrilous" accusations that its intelligence agency was involved in a November terrorist attack on the Chinese consulate in the Pakistan’s southern city of Karachi.
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India probes opposition to granting citizenship to non-Muslims
Jan 11, 2019 11:23Indian police on Friday said they are investigating an academic, a journalist and a peasant leader for possible sedition for publicly opposing a proposal to grant citizenship to non-Muslims from neighboring Muslim-majority countries.
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India will receive S-400 systems without delay: Russia
Jan 10, 2019 08:17Russia says India will receive “without any delays” the advanced Russian-built S-400 air defense missile systems under a contract signed between Moscow and New Delhi some four months ago.
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Iran, India can counter US' illegal sanctions, bullying, says Zarif
Jan 10, 2019 03:59Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has lauded ties, especially economic relations, with India, expressing confidence that Tehran and New Delhi will counter the US’ “illegal” measures, sanctions and bullying.
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India begins settling Iran oil debt after US sanctions
Jan 09, 2019 12:16Indian refiners have begun clearing their oil debt to Iran under a new payment mechanism which they put in place after the US reimposed sanctions on the Islamic Republic.
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India sees Chabahar Port as gateway to Central Asia
Jan 08, 2019 11:00Indian Minister of State for External Affairs Vijay Kumar Singh, addressing the Iran-India Business Forum on Tuesday, highlighted the importance of Chabahar Port for India as the gateway of trade ties of the country with the Central Asia.