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Indonesian then-Defense Minister and President-elect Prabowo Subianto salutes journalists in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, April 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim, File)

BRICS beefs with Southeast Asian partners in 2025

By Andrew Salmon - The Washington Times

FILE - O.J. Simpson sits at his arraignment in Superior Court in Los Angeles on July 22, 1994. (AP Photo/Pool/Lois Bernstein, Pool, File)

The year in review: Influential people who died in 2024

By Bernard McGhee - Associated Press

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh greets the crowd during an election campaign rally at Khumtai, in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, Saturday, March 29, 2014. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath, File)

Manmohan Singh, India’s former prime minister and architect of economic reforms, dies aged 92

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Phalneivah Khonsai, 35, talks to Associated Press in a relief camp in Imphal, Manipur, Monday, Dec. 16, 2024. Khonsai ran for her life when violence struck her neighbourhood in India's restive northeast, carrying just the bare essentials in the hope that her family would return soon. Khonsai, her husband and three children left behind their house, which was torched by a mob, and made for the hills where thousands of people from their community were heading for safety. (AP Photo/Rishi Lekhi)

Tens of thousands displaced by ethnic violence in northeast India suffer squalid conditions in camps

By Rishi Lekhi - Associated Press

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina checks her watch as she waits for the official opening time to cast her vote in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Jan. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Bangladesh seeks extradition of ousted leader Sheikh Hasina from India

By Abdur Rehman Jahangir - Associated Press

In this May 23, 2019, file photo, a Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket, with a payload of 60 satellites for SpaceX's Starlink broadband network, lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, seen from Cocoa Beach, Fla. It’s a 21st-century space race: Amazon, SpaceX and others competing to get into orbit and provide internet to the earth’s most remote places. (Malcolm Denemark/Florida Today via AP, File)

Musk: Starlink never was active over India despite its army’s seizure

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Indian Southern film actor Allu Arjun, center, greets his fans in Hyderabad, India, Friday, Dec. 13, 2024, as he leaves a hospital where he was taken for medical checkup by policemen before arresting him after his appearance at a film screening allegedly led to a crush of fans in which a woman died. (AP Photo)

Popular actor in southern India is freed on bail after spending a night in jail in a stampede case

Associated Press

Supporters of Bangladesh's former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia and her Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) denouncing attacks in India on a diplomatic mission and alleged desecration of Bangladeshi flags, participate in a protest in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. (AP Photo)

Supporters of Bangladesh Nationalist Party hold protest march as tensions continue with India

By Julhas Alam - Associated Press

In this photo obtained from the Indian Reserve Bank of India, or RBI page on X, formerly known as Twitter, shows new RBI Gov. Sanjay Malhotra, center, is welcomed by his colleagues at an office in Mumbai India Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. (Reserve Bank of India via AP)

India’s new central bank governor takes over as economic growth slows and inflation rises

By Ashok Sharma - Associated Press

People shout slogans condemning reported attacks on Hindu and other minorities in Bangladesh during a protest near the Bangladesh diplomatic mission in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Hundreds protest in New Delhi against reported attacks on Hindus in Bangladesh

Associated Press

Supporters of Bangladesh's former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia and her Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) shout slogans during an anti-India protest outside the Indian High Commission in Dhaka, Bangladesh Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024. A banner, rear, reads "One People, One Country, Bangladesh." (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

Bangladesh and India hold talks aimed at defusing escalating tensions

By Julhas Alam - Associated Press

Supporters of Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia and her Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) march towards the Indian High Commission in Dhaka, Bangladesh during an anti-India protest Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

Supporters of Bangladesh Nationalist Party march in protest at attacks in India

By Julhas Alam - Associated Press

Participants wear paper masks in the likeness of Amazon's Jeff Bezos as warehouse workers and delivery drivers stage a protest against the Seattle-based company demanding higher wages and better working conditions, in New Delhi, India, Friday, Nov. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Amazon workers in India join Black Friday strike action for better wages and working conditions

By Shonal Ganguly - Associated Press

Bangladeshi Hindu leader Krishna Das Prabhu shows a victory sign as he is taken in a police van after court ordered him detained pending further proceedings in Chattogram in southeastern Bangladesh, Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024. (AP photo)

Lawyers in southeastern Bangladesh boycott courts after violence kills 1

By Julhas Alam - Associated Press

A vehicle burns during a clash between protesters and police in Sambhal, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024. (AP Photo)

4 killed after a survey of a mosque sparks clashes in a northern Indian city

By Biswajeet Banerjee - Associated Press

Police detain a Congress party supporter during a protest against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi after Adani was indicted by U.S. prosecutors for bribery and fraud, in New Delhi, India, Monday, Nov. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Shonal Ganguly)

India’s opposition protests against billionaire facing U.S. bribery and fraud charges

By Shonal Ganguly and Manish Swarup - Associated Press

Bharatiya Janata Party supporters shower confetti and flower petals as Indian prime minister Narendra Modi, center, arrives to address them at the party headquarters after wining the state elections in politically significant Indian state of Maharashtra, in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024. (AP Photo)

Modi’s party heads for victory in Maharashtra state election while opposition wins Jharkhand

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A Buddha statue sits on an altar at the Anchorage Zen Community in Anchorage, Alaska, Saturday, Oct. 8, 2022. Being Buddhist in Anchorage is both universal in practice and unique to life in Alaska. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Sharing the gospel amidst Buddhism’s stronghold

By Don Shenk – Special to Higher Ground

Nigeria's President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, right, welcomes Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, prior to a meeting in Abuja, Nigeria, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Azeez Akunleyan)

Indian and Nigerian leaders pledge stronger security ties and support for Global South

By Chinedu Asadu - Associated Press

Equipment damaged by fire lies inside a neonatal intensive care unit at Jhansi Medical College hospital in Jhansi, India, Friday, Nov. 15, 2024. (AP Photo)

Fire engulfs hospital ward in northern India, killing 10 newborn babies

Associated Press