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India to provide $450 million to cyclone-ravaged Sri Lanka

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The cyclone killed more than 640 people when it swept across the South Asian island last month, causing floods and landslides that inflicted about $4 billion in damage, according to the World Bank, or 4 per cent of the country's GDP.
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Bangladesh summons Indian High Commissioner over its Mission...

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Bangladesh on Tuesday expressed grave concern over attacks on its diplomatic missions in India, summoning the Indian High Commissioner to protest incidents in New Delhi and Siliguri, according to Bangladesh Foreign Ministry statement.
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Right group calls for probe into mysterious death of Bhutane...

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A global rights group has demanded an independent probe into the death of Bhutanese political prisoner Sha Bahadur Gurung in custody and called for the immediate release of all remaining political detainees in Bhutan.
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Five killed after Mexican Navy plane crashes off US coast

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Eight people were traveling aboard the aircraft, which was on a humanitarian mission, the Mexican Navy Secretariat said in a statement.
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'Call of Duty' co-creator Vince Zampella killed in car crash

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“Call of Duty” co-creator and gaming pioneer Vince Zampella has died at 55 after his Ferrari crashed on a road north of Los Angeles, Electronic Arts confirmed.
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India's Bollywood counts costs as star fees squeeze profits

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Bollywood has long been unpredictable at the box office and the pandemic compounded problems, but producers argue that today's losses stem less from creative failure and more from top artists' runaway expenses.
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Italy fines Apple nearly 100m euros over app privacy feature

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The AGCM said in a statement that Apple had violated privacy regulations for third-party developers in a market where it "holds a super-dominant position through its App Store".
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Ukraine is leveraging its powerful – and cheap – new drone k...

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Antennas and sensors are clipped to a light stand. Monitors and controls are pulled from hard cases, and a game-changing new weapon is readied for deployment.
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Moscow car blast kills Russian general hours after US talks

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Kyiv has not commented on the incident, but Russian investigators said they were probing whether the blast was "linked" to "Ukrainian special forces".
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EU says China's planned dairy duties 'unjustified'

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"Our assessment is that the investigation is based on questionable allegations and insufficient evidence, and that the measures are therefore unjustified and unwarranted," a European Commission trade spokesman said.
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