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Pakistan police: Cross-border firing from India kills woman

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India denies new road breaches territory disputed with Nepal

By EMILY SCHMALL and ROSHAN SEDHAI - Associated Press

In this April 7, 2020, photo, Rosemary Paez Carabajal, left, her husband Yonoma Saenz, their children Laisa and Leonardo pose for a photo at the room they rent in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Carabajal makes a living selling coffee on the street, and can no longer do her job after the government-ordered lockdown to curb the spread of the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Amid pandemic, the world’s working poor hustle to survive

By AYA BATRAWY and EMILY SCHMALL - Associated Press

In this Thursday, May 7, 2020 photo, an Indian man uses Aarogya Setu app on his mobile phone in New Delhi, India. As India enters an extended coronavirus lockdown, the government is fervently pursuing contact tracing to control infections. At the heart of the effort in the country of 1.3 billion people is a smartphone app that evaluates users’ infection risk based on location services such as Bluetooth and GPS. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Virus tracing app raises privacy concerns in India

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

Migrant workers from the neighboring state of Maharashtra trying to return to their villages hundreds of miles away walk through a highway during a nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of new coronavirus on the outskirts of Hyderabad, India, Monday, May 4, 2020. India's six-week coronavirus lockdown, which was supposed to end on Monday, has been extended for another two weeks, with a few relaxations. Locking down the country's 1.3 billion people has slowed down the spread of the virus, but has come at the enormous cost of upending lives and millions of lost jobs. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

Train kills 15 migrant workers walking home in India

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Indian paramilitary soldiers stand guard on a deserted road in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, May 6, 2020. Government forces killed a top rebel commander and his aide in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Wednesday and shut down cellphone and mobile internet services during subsequent anti-India protests, officials, and residents said. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)

Anti-India clashes continue in tense Kashmir for 3rd day

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press

In this April 10, 2020, photo, Judith Andeka a widow and mother of five, fetches water with a bucket in the Kibera slum, or informal settlement, of Nairobi, Kenya. Andeka used to earn $2.50 to $4 a day washing clothes in Nairobi’s Kibera, one of the world’s biggest slums. With people not going to work because of restrictions on movement, neighbors can’t afford her services. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Meet 8 people around the world hustling to survive pandemic

By AYA BATRAWY and EMILY SCHMALL - Associated Press

Smoke rises from LG Polymers plant, the site of a chemical gas leakage, in Vishakhapatnam, India, Thursday, May 7, 2020. Synthetic chemical styrene leaked from the industrial plant in southern India early Thursday, leaving people struggling to breathe and collapsing in the streets as they tried to flee. Administrator Vinay Chand said several people fainted on the road and were rushed to a hospital. (AP Photo)

More evacuations near Indian factory after fatal gas leak

By Omer Farooq - Associated Press

Virus outbreak in India market could cause cases to snowball

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL - Associated Press

People carry a woman affected by a chemical gas leak in Vishakhapatnam, India, Thursday, May 7, 2020. Chemical gas leaked from an industrial plant in southern India early Thursday, leaving people struggling to breathe and collapsing in the streets as they tried to flee. Administrator Vinay Chand said several people fainted on the road and were rushed to a hospital. (AP Photo)

Chemical leak at LG plant in India kills 11, about 1,000 ill

By Omer Farooq - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 22, 1963 file photo, the limousine carrying mortally wounded President John F. Kennedy races toward the hospital seconds after he was shot in Dallas. Secret Service agent Clinton Hill is riding on the back of the car, Nellie Connally, wife of Texas Gov. John Connally, bends over her wounded husband, and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy leans over the president. (AP Photo/Justin Newman, File)

National traumas familiar for virus-hit, unscathed countries

By TAMER FAKAHANY - Associated Press

An Indian Air Force helicopter showers flower petals on the staff of INS Asvini hospital in Mumbai, India, Sunday, May 3, 2020. The event was part the Armed Forces' efforts to thank the workers, including doctors, nurses and police personnel, who have been at the forefront of the country's battle against the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

AP Explains: India lockdown slows virus, but gaps remain

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and EMILY SCHMALL - Associated Press

Indians line up to buy liquor outside one the liquor shops which was reopened Monday after six weeks lockdown in New Delhi, India, Monday, May 4, 2020. India’s six-week coronavirus lockdown, which was supposed to end on Monday, has been extended for another two weeks, with a few relaxations. Locking down the country’s 1.3 billion people has slowed down the spread of the virus, but has come at the enormous cost of upending lives and millions of lost jobs. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

India’s virus lockdown eased while infection rate speeds up

By EMILY SCHMALL - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, April 29, 2020, photo, a Muslim priest in protective gear offers funeral prayers for a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel who died from the COVID-19 coronavirus before his burial, at a graveyard in New Delhi, India. The spreading of the coronavirus among members of India’s national paramilitary and several outbreaks in notoriously crowded prisons has brought fore the danger of the pandemic extending to country’s crowded facilities. The number of COVID-19 cases in a New Delhi-based battalion of the Central Reserve Police Force rose to 122, officials said. (AP Photo)

Rise in virus cases in crowded Indian jails prompts concerns

By SHEIKH SAALIQ and ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2009 file photo, members of the cast of &quot;Slumdog Millionaire,&quot; from left, Irrfan Khan, Dev Patel, Freida Pinto and Anil Kapoor, pose backstage with the award for outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture during the 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles. Khan, a veteran character actor in Bollywood movies and one of India's best-known exports to Hollywood, died Wednesday, April 29, 2020, after being admitted to Mumbai’s Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani hospital with a colon infection. He was 54. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

Bollywood mourns loss of two of its most versatile actors

By VINEETA DEEPAK - Associated Press

Indian migrant workers take 1st train home since lockdown

By BISWAJEET BANERJEE - Associated Press

3 Pakistanis, 1 Indian killed in exchange of fire in Kashmir

By ROSHAN MUGHAL - Associated Press

The front page of two mainline national dailies usually replete with revenue earring advertisements has news today, in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, April 29, 2020. India news publishers face a delicate balancing act as they look to offset financial losses from a drastic decline in ad sales with support from a government that has taken aggressive steps to control the coronavirus pandemic narrative, including bringing criminal cases against journalists for unflattering reports about the official response to the crisis. While news organizations globally are reeling from the loss of ad revenue during the pandemic, the Indian news industry receives the lion share of revenue from government ads, and is now looking to the government for relief. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Indian news media fight virus on financial, political fronts

By EMILY SCHMALL and SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2019 file photo, people stand in the lobby for Amazon offices in New York. The United States for the first time added five of Amazon’s overseas operations to its list of “notorious markets’’ where pirated goods are sold. Trade Representative on Wednesday, April 29, 2020 added the Amazon domains in Canada, France, Germany, India and the United Kingdom to its annual blacklist. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Trump trade office adds Amazon to ‘notorious markets’ list

By PAUL WISEMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Saturday, April 25, 2020 file photo, a Muslim man prays on a street outside Jama Masjid on the first day of Ramadan during a nationwide lockdown to control the spread of coronavirus, in New Delhi, India. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

The pandemic and rising Islamophobia mar Ramadan in India

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press