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Pakistan army says Indian spy drone shot down in Kashmir

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This combination of May 22, 2020, left, and June 23 satellite images provided by Maxar Technologies shows construction in the Galwan river valley near the disputed border known as the Line of Actual Control between India and China. On Monday, June 22, military commanders of both nations agreed to disengage their forces in the disputed area of the Himalayas following a June 15 clash that left at least 20 soldiers dead. (Maxar Technologies via AP) Satellite image copyright 2020 Maxar Technologies

Satellite images show buildup on disputed India-China border

By SAM MCNEIL and EMILY SCHMALL - Associated Press

This June 22, 2020, satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies shows the Line of Actual Control (LAC), the border between India and China. Chinese and Indian military commanders agreed to disengage their forces in the disputed area of the Himalayas following a clash that left at least 20 soldiers dead, both countries said. The commanders reached the agreement Monday, June 22, 2020, in their first meeting since the June 15 confrontation, the countries said. (Maxar Technologies via AP)

Indian army chief visits troops near troubled China border

By ASHOK SHARMA AND AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press

A Karni Sena supporter tears a banner featuring Chinese President Xi Jinping and shout slogans during a protest against China in Ahmedabad, India, Wednesday, June 24, 2020. Chinese and Indian military commanders have agreed to disengage their forces in a disputed area of the Himalayas following a clash that left at least 20 soldiers dead, both countries said Tuesday. The commanders reached the agreement Monday in their first meeting since the June 15 confrontation, the countries said. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

New satellite imagery show new Chinese structure buildup along Indian border

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

A doctor in personal protective suit checks the papers of a woman whose relative is admitted in a COVID-19 government designated hospital, in New Delhi, India Tuesday, June 23, 2020. While India’s leaders have promised coronavirus testing and care for all who need it, regardless of income, treatment options are as stratified and unequal as the country itself. Care ranges from crowded wards at public hospitals that some worry will make them sicker than if they stayed home to spacious suites at private hospitals that only the wealthy can afford. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

India’s social inequalities reflected in coronavirus care

By Emily Schmall - Associated Press

This June 22, 2020, satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies shows the Line of Actual Control (LAC), the border between India and China. Chinese and Indian military commanders agreed to disengage their forces in the disputed area of the Himalayas following a clash that left at least 20 soldiers dead, both countries said. The commanders reached the agreement Monday, June 22, 2020, in their first meeting since the June 15 confrontation, the countries said. (Maxar Technologies via AP)

China blames India for border clash, urges stability

Associated Press

Pakistan’s foreign minister warns India against attacks

By ASIM TANVEER - Associated Press

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency and taken on June 23, 2020, staff members work in an inflatable COVID-19 testing lab in Beijing. The lab provided by Chinese biotech company BGI Genomics is capable of running 30,000 nucleic acid test daily. China appears to have tamed a new outbreak of the virus in Beijing, once again demonstrating its ability to quickly mobilize vast resources by testing nearly 2.5 million people in 11 days. (Chen Zhonghao/Xinhua via AP)

Asia Today: India to survey 29 million New Delhi residents

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov listens as Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic speaks during a joint press conference in Belgrade, Serbia, Thursday, June 18, 2020. Lavrov is on a two-day official visit to Serbia. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Moscow sees no need to mediate India-China standoff

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

In this Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016, file photo, an Indian municipal worker sweeps the road outside the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi, India. India has ordered Pakistan to halve its embassy staff in New Delhi and said it would do the same in Islamabad after two Indian officials were abducted at gunpoint in Pakistan, the Indian foreign ministry said Tuesday, June 23, 2020. India’s Ministry of External Affairs said the abducted officials returned to India on June 22, describing “graphic details of the barbaric treatment that they experienced at the hands of Pakistani agencies.” (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri, File)

India orders Pakistan to reduce embassy staff by half

Associated Press

Exile Tibetans and local Indians burn a Chinese national flag during a protest in Dharmsala, India, Friday, June 19, 2020. India said Thursday it was using diplomatic channels with China to de-escalate a military standoff in a remote Himalayan border region where 20 Indian soldiers were killed this week. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)

China claims valley where Indian, Chinese soldiers brawled

By EMILY SCHMALL - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2010, file courtroom artist's drawing Chicago businessman Tahawwur Rana, center, appears before Judge Matthew Kennelly in Chicago's federal court. Rana, a Pakistani-born Canadian, was convicted of a crime related to the Mumbai killings that are sometimes called India's 9/11, though U.S. prosecutors had failed to prove a terrorism charge that connected him directly to the three-day rampage during his 2011 trial. Rana who spent more than 10 years in prison for supporting terrorist groups has been arrested in Los Angeles to face charges in India for attacks in Mumbai in 2008 that killed more than 160 people, U.S. prosecutors said Friday, June 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Verna Sadock, File)

Ex-businessman facing murder charges in Mumbai terror attack

By BRIAN MELLEY - Associated Press

B. Upender weeps by the coffin of his son Col. B. Santosh Babu in Suryapet, about 140 kilometers from Hyderabad, India, Thursday, June 18, 2020. Babu was among the 20 Indian troops who were killed in the clash Monday night that was the deadliest conflict between the sides in 45 years. India on Thursday cautioned China against making &quot;exaggerated and untenable claims&quot; to the Galvan Valley area even as both nations tried to end a standoff in the high Himalayan region where their armies engaged in a deadly clash. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

India’s prime minister to meet with opposition on China row

By Ashok Sharma and Emily Schmall - Associated Press

Nepal moves closer to claiming disputed land with India

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA - Associated Press

Indians burn products made in China during a protest against the Chinese government in Lucknow, India, Wednesday, June 17, 2020. India and China sought Wednesday to de-escalate tensions following a fatal clash along a disputed border high in the Himalayas that left 20 Indian soldiers dead. The skirmish Monday in the desolate alpine area of Ladakh, in Kashmir, followed changes by India to the political status of Kashmir amid a geopolitical tug-of-war with the United States in the region. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

Deadly clash in the Himalayas ups ante for China and India

By EMILY SCHMALL - Associated Press

Pakistan army says Indian fire kills 4 civilians in Kashmir

Associated Press

Indian army soldiers carry the coffin of their colleague Sunil Kumar, killed during confrontation with Chinese soldiers in the Ladakh region, as the body was brought to Jai Prakash Narayan airport, in Patna, Bihar state, India, Wednesday, June 17, 2020. Twenty Indian troops were reportedly killed, in the clash in the Ladakh region late Monday that was the first deadly confrontation on the disputed border between India and China since 1975. (AP Photo/Aftab Alam Siddiqui)

India cautions China over its claim to area of deadly clash

By Ashok Sharma and Emily Schmall - Associated Press

ADDS THE LOCATION DETAILS - This satellite photo provided by Planet Labs shows the Galwan Valley area in the Ladakh region near the Line of Actual Control between India and China Tuesday, June 16, 2020. A clash high in the Himalayas between the world’s two most populated countries claimed the lives of 20 Indian soldiers in a border region that the two nuclear armed neighbors have disputed for decades, Indian officials said Tuesday. (Planet Labs via AP)

China, India disavow clash but pledge to end border standoff

By SAM McNEIL and ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

An Indian man burns a photograph of Chinese president Xi Jinping during a protest against China in Ahmedabad, India, Tuesday, June 16, 2020. At least three Indian soldiers, including a senior army officer, were killed in a confrontation with Chinese troops along their disputed border high in the Himalayas where thousands of soldiers on both sides have been facing off for over a month, the Indian army said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

India, China troops clash in Himalayans killing 20

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this Oct. 16, 2016, file photo, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, front and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands with leaders at the BRICS summit in Goa, India. At least three Indian soldiers, including a senior army officer, have been killed in a confrontation with Chinese soldiers along their disputed frontier high in the Himalayas where thousands of troops on both sides have been facing off for over a month, the Indian army said. The army said in a statement Tuesday, June 16, 2020, that a “violent faceoff” took place in Galwan valley in the Ladakh region on Monday night “with casualties on both sides.” (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

India says 3 soldiers killed in standoff with Chinese troops

By Aijaz Hussain - Associated Press