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Police forces drive to Elmau near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany Monday, June 27, 2022. The G-7 leaders will begin Monday's session of their three-day summit with a focus on Ukraine. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Live updates | Erdogan adamant on Sweden, Finland NATO bids

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A man stands at the doorway of his flooded shop in Sylhet, Bangladesh, Monday, June 20, 2022. Floods in Bangladesh continued to wreak havoc Monday with authorities struggling to ferry drinking water and dry food to flood shelters across the country’s vast northern and northeastern regions. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

South Asia floods hampering access to food, clean water

By JJulhas Alam and Wasbir Hussain - Associated Press

National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel rescue flood-affected villagers in Korora village, west of Gauhati, India, Friday, June 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Floods in India, Bangladesh leave millions homeless, 18 dead

By Julhas Alam and Wasbir Hussain - Associated Press

In this photo provided by Indian Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar's Twitter handle, Jaishankar, center, stands with Southeast Asian foreign ministers at the start of a meeting in New Delhi, India, Thursday, June 16, 2022. Jaishankar said India and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations face geopolitical headwinds from the war in Ukraine and its knock-on effects on food and energy security as well as fertilizer and commodities prices and logistics and supply chain disruptions. (Indian Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar's Twitter handle via AP)

India, ASEAN seek to boost ties amid U.S.-China rivalry

By Ashok Sharma - Associated Press

Muslims shout slogans against Nupur Sharma, a spokesperson of India's governing Hindu nationalist party as they react to the derogatory references to Islam and the Prophet Muhammad made by her, during a protest outside a mosque in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, June 10, 2022. Thousands of people marched in Bangladesh's capital on Friday to urge Muslim-majority nations to cut off diplomatic ties with India and boycott its products unless it punishes two governing party officials for comments deemed derogatory to Islam's Prophet Muhammad. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

Anger erupts in Bangladesh, India over comments about Islam

By Julhas Alam - Associated Press

A Taliban fighter stands guard as people receive food rations distributed by a South Koren humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, May 10, 2022. Afghanistan is expected 1.1 million children under the age of 5 will face malnutrition in the country by the end of this year, as hospitals wards are packed with sick children for sever hunger and malnutrition. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Indian officials hold 1st talks with Taliban in Afghanistan

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Bollywood megastar Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan, center, is escorted by law enforcement officials from the Narcotics Control Bureau office for a medical check in Mumbai, India, Friday, Oct. 8, 2021. On Friday, May 27, 2022, Khan was cleared by authorities in a drugs-on-cruise case with no possession and corroborative evidence suggesting his involvement in a drug network, the investigating agency said. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade, File)

Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan’s son cleared of drug charges

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From left, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, U.S. President Joe Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi attend the Japan-U.S.-Australia-India Fellowship Founding Celebration event in Tokyo Tuesday, May 24, 2022. (Yuichi Yamazaki/Pool Photo via AP)

Chinese and Russian aggression looms large over ‘Quad’ summit in Tokyo

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol visit the Samsung Electronics Pyeongtaek campus, Friday, May 20, 2022, in Pyeongtaek, South Korea. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

China, North Korea cast shadow over Biden Asia mission

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

A laborer seals sacks filled with wheat in Gurdaspur, in the northern Indian state of Punjab, April 30, 2014. (AP Photo/Channi Anand, File)

India bans exports of wheat, citing threat to food security

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A man captures video as Muslims offer Eid al-Fitr prayers in Gauhati, India, Tuesday, May 3, 2022. Eid al-Fitr marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

India’s Muslims mark Eid al-Fitr amid community violence

By Aijaz Hussain - Associated Press

President Joe Biden meets virtually with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus in Washington, Monday, April 11, 2022. India's Defense minister Rajnath Singh, is center, and India's foreign minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, is right (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Biden presses a wary India on Russia as Ukraine crisis deepens

By Tom Howell Jr. and Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden meets virtually with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus in Washington, Monday, April 11, 2022. India's Defense minister Rajnath Singh, is center, and India's foreign minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, is right (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Biden, Indian prime minister meet to discuss differences on Russia

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden meets virtually with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus in Washington, Monday, April 11, 2022. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, left, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, second left, and Indian Minister of Defense Rajnath Singh, second right, Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar is right. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Neutral on Russia, India still crucial to U.S. plans in Asia, Pentagon officials say

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this photo provided by Indian Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar's Twitter handle, Jaishankar and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov sit for a meeting in New Delhi, India, Friday, April 1, 2022. (Indian Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar's Twitter handle via AP)

Russia praises India’s neutral stance on Ukraine fighting

By Ashok Sharma - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi greet each other before their meeting in New Delhi, India on Dec. 6, 2021. India is bracing for a disruption in Russian arms supplies following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's tightrope walk between Moscow and Washington could become more difficult due to a border standoff with China. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

Indian neutrality in Ukraine fight complicates U.S. strategic designs in Asia

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

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India to host chess Olympiad after Russia’s bid is nixed

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, second left, and Bharatiya Janata Party President J.P. Nadda arrive at the party headquarters in New Delhi, India, Thursday, March 10, 2022. Modi's Hindu nationalist party has a commanding lead in crucial state polls, despite his government's criticized handling of COVID-19, soaring unemployment and farmer protests. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

India blames technical error for missile firing that landed in Pakistan

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Students shout slogans against government during a protest against new citizenship law in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2019. Hundreds of students marched Tuesday through the streets of New Delhi to Jantar Mantar, an area designated for protests near Parliament, against the new citizenship law, that allows Hindus, Christians and other religious minorities who are in India illegally to become citizens if they can show they were persecuted because of their religion in Muslim-majority Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan. It does not apply to Muslims. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup) **FILE**

Persecution of India’s Christians on pace for second record year, group says

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

FILE- Indian traders reacting to the killing of Indian troops in a clash with Chinese soldiers in eastern Ladakh burn Chinese products and a poster president Xi Jinping during a protest in New Delhi, India, June 22, 2020. India will stay away from the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Winter Olympics with an Indian official accusing China of politicizing the event. India objected to China using a soldier involved in fighting with Indian forces in Eastern Ladakh as a torchbearer for the Olympics ceremony. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

Riled up by torchbearer, India skips China Olympics opening

By Ashok Sharma - Associated Press