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Indian PM calls for cordial relations with Pakistan

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

Wife of police officer who fled Myanmar following a military coup hands over her infant to her husband as they prepare food at an undisclosed place in Mizoram, a state bordering Myanmar, India, Friday, March 19, 2021. Several Myanmar police officers who fled to India after defying army orders to shoot opponents of last month’s coup in their country are urging Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to not repatriate them and provide them political asylum on humanitarian grounds. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Fleeing coup, Myanmar police refugees in India seek asylum

By ANUPAM NATH - Associated Press

Bangladeshis raise their footwear and shout slogans during a protest after Friday prayers, against the visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, March 19, 2021. Hundreds of people including Muslim devotees and left-leaning student activists on Friday rallied in Bangladesh's capital to denounce the upcoming visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to join the celebration of the country's 50th anniversary of independence. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

Muslims, students protest Indian PM’s visit to Bangladesh

By JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press

A police officer who fled from Myanmar following a military coup looks out to the mountains from an undisclosed location bordering Myanmar, in the northeastern Indian state of Mizoram, Thursday, March 18, 2021. Villagers in Mizoram have given shelter to 34 Myanmar police personnel and 1 fire fighter, who crossed over to the state over the last two weeks. They refused to give their names to an Associated Press photographer who met them this week in an undisclosed location in Mizoram state. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Fleeing Myanmar police: We defied orders to kill protesters

By Anupam Nath - Associated Press

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits the National Express depot in Coventry, central England, Monday March 15, 2021. The Prime Minister is unveiling a shake-up of the bus sector which aims to see lower, simpler flat fares in towns and cities. (Steve Parsons/Pool via AP)

UK to lift nuclear stockpile cap; looks to Asia post-Brexit

By SYLVIA HUI - Associated Press

Illustration on a new Sino/indian dispute by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

The China-India dispute is far from over

By Jianli Yang

Protecting the Power Grid Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Lessons of the China-India blackout war

By Peter Vincent Pry

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin listens to a question as he speaks during a media briefing at the Pentagon in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Lloyd Austin to visit India to meet with Rajnath Singh, Minister of Defense

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

More than 100 people fleeing Myanmar enter Indian village

By WASBIR HUSSAIN - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 9, 2021 file photo, Rahima Kato, a Rohingya woman displays identity cards of her family members issued by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) at their makeshift camp on the outskirts of Jammu, India. Four Indian states bordering Myanmar have stepped up measures to prevent refugees from entering India through a porous border following last month's military coup in the Southeast Asian country, a government official said Saturday. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

India steps up measures to check entry of Myanmar refugees

By WASBIR HUSSAIN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2021, file photo, employees pack boxes containing vials of COVID-19 vaccine at Serum Institute of India in Pune, India. Serum Institute of India has been contracted to manufacture a billion doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine. President Joe Biden and fellow leaders of the Indo Pacific alliance known as “the Quad” will announce on Friday, March 12, a plan to expand coronavirus vaccine manufacturing capacity in India, according to administration officials. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool, File)

US, Indo-Pacific allies to expand India’s vaccine production

By AAMER MADHANI - Associated Press

An elderly Indian woman receives COVID-19 vaccine at a private hospital in Gauhati, India, Thursday, March 11, 2021. Pandemic-weary and sequestered mostly in their homes for a year, India’s elderly are now standing in long lines at vaccination sites, then rolling up their sleeves to get shots protecting them against the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

AP PHOTOS: India’s elderly leave isolation to get vaccinated

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From left to right, Indian Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pose for a picture before a four Indo-Pacific nations' foreign ministers meeting at the prime minister's office in Tokyo Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020. (Nicolas Datiche/Pool Photo via AP)

Joe Biden to host first Quad meeting between U.S., India, Australia and Japan

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Mauricio Vivet poses for a photo with his violin at home, Dona Marta slum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, March 6, 2021. Vivet earned a living by playing at events and giving music lessons. He moved out of the neighborhood and planned to open a music studio. COVID-19 put a stop to all that. Vivet now struggles just to pay for food. He left his apartment and moved back to his mother's house in the favela. Vivet's biggest fear is not having money to provide for his 4-year-old son, Angelo. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

As pandemic enters 2nd year, voices of resilience emerge

By ANDREW SELSKY - Associated Press

Former University of Massachusetts-Amherst Professor Edwin Driver is interviewed at his home, Friday, Jan. 15, 2021, in South Hadley, Mass. Amherst is on a path toward providing reparations to Black residents for past injustices following the town council's adoption of a resolution calling for the community to become an anti-racist town. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

A price tag on trauma? College town weighs Black reparations

By PHILIP MARCELO - Associated Press

President Joe Biden walks to the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, March 9, 2021, in Washington. Biden is returning to the White House after visiting W.S. Jenks &amp; Son hardware store, a small business that received a Paycheck Protection Program loan. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Biden joining summit with key Asia-Pacific ‘Quad’ leaders

By ALEXANDRA JAFFE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 22, 2021, file photo, climate activist Disha Ravi, 22, travels in a car as she is taken to a court in New Delhi, India. To her friends, Ravi, was most concerned about her future in a world where temperatures are rising. But her life changed last month as she became a household name in the country, dominating news coverage after police charged her with sedition, a colonial-era law which carries a sentence up to life. Her alleged crime: sharing an online document to help amplify months-long farmer protests in India on Twitter. She was released after 10 days in custody. (AP Photo/Dinesh Joshi, File)

Indian activist’s arrest spotlights crackdown on dissent

By KRUTIKA PATHI and SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

Female farmers protest against new Indian agriculture laws

By NEHA MEHROTRA and RISHI LEKHI - Associated Press

Myanmar asks India to return police who say they fled army

By WASBIR HUSSAIN - Associated Press

Police officers aim their guns towards people in nearby apartments as they stand off with anti-coup protesters in Yangon, Myanmar, Thursday, March 4, 2021. Demonstrators in Myanmar protesting last month's military coup returned to the streets Thursday, undaunted by the killing of at least 38 people the previous day by security forces. (AP Photo)

At least 7 Myanmar policemen cross into India seeking refuge

Associated Press