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Hindu refugees who migrated from Sindh province of Pakistan display their passports as they support the Citizenship Amendment Act in Ahmadabad, India, Monday, Dec. 23, 2019. India’s main opposition party staged a silent protest in the capital on Monday against the contentious new citizenship law, a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi defended the legislation and accused the opposition of pushing the country into a “fear psychosis.” (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

India’s ruling party loses key state election amid protests

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

In this Oct. 21, 1998, file photo, Ram Dass, best known for the 1971 bestseller &quot;Be Here Now,&quot; smiles during an interview at his San Anselmo, Calif., home. The 1960s counterculture spiritual leader and early LSD proponent died, Sunday, Dec. 22, 2019, at his home in Maui, Hawaii. He was 88. (AP Photo/Susan Ragan, File)

Baba Ram Dass, spiritual guru and LSD pioneer, dies at 88

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a rally of his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Dec. 22, 2019. Clashes continued Sunday between Indian police and protesters angered by a new citizenship law that excludes Muslims, as Modi used the rally to defend the legislation, accusing the opposition of pushing the country into a &quot;fear psychosis.&quot; (AP Photo)

India’s main opposition party stages protest against new law

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

Indian students of the Jamia Millia Islamia University and locals participate in a protest demonstration against a new citizenship law in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Dec. 21, 2019. Critics have slammed the law as a violation of India's secular constitution and have called it the latest effort by the Narendra Modi government to marginalize the country's 200 million Muslims. Modi has defended the law as a humanitarian gesture. Placard center reads &quot;Stop attacking universities.&quot; (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

India’s leader defends new law as protests against it go on

By EMILY SCHMALL - Associated Press

Pakistan says Indian shooting kills 3 in Kashmir

By ROSHAN MUGHAL - Associated Press

Indians gather for a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act after Friday prayers outside Jama Masjid in New Delhi, India, Friday, Dec. 20, 2019. Police banned public gatherings in parts of the Indian capital and other cities for a third day Friday and cut internet services to try to stop growing protests against a new citizenship law that have so far left eight people dead and more than 1,200 others detained. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

23 dead as protests grow against India citizenship law

By SHEIKH SAALIQ and EMILY SCHMALL - Associated Press

Indians throw stones on police vehicles during a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Register of Citizens in Ahmadabad, India, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019. Police detained several hundred protesters in some of India's biggest cities Thursday as they defied a ban on assembly that authorities imposed to stop widespread demonstrations against a new citizenship law that opponents say threatens the country's secular democracy. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

Amid citizenship law outcry, Indian authorities ban protest

By Ashok Sharma - Associated Press

Indian students of the Jamia Millia Islamia University hold placards as they march during a protest against a new citizenship law, in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019. India’s Supreme Court on Wednesday postponed hearing pleas challenging the constitutionality of the new citizenship law that has sparked opposition and massive protests across the country. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

1,200 detained in India amid ban on citizenship law protests

By EMILY SCHMALL and ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

In this Monday, Dec. 16, 2019, photo, an Indian trader checks onions at a market in Ahmadabad, India. Soaring prices has put the humble onion, a staple for most Indian families, out of reach, adding to worries over food inflation at a time when the slowing economy has become a severe liability for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government. Onion prices are seen by some as a key indicator of economic stability in India, and opposition parties, quick to smell an opportunity, have rallied in the streets wearing onion garlands and offering onions as wedding gifts. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

Onion crisis raises a stink for India’s Prime Minister Modi

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

Pakistan writes to UN, says India placed missiles in Kashmir

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

Activists of left student organizations light torches during a protest against a new citizenship law in Kolkata, India, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2019. Indian student protests that turned into violent clashes with police galvanized opposition nationwide on Tuesday to a new law that provides a path to citizenship for non-Muslim migrants who entered the country illegally from several neighboring countries. (AP Photo)

Protests of Indian law grow despite efforts to contain them

By EMILY SCHMALL and SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

Prayer at Kashmir’s biggest mosque for 1st time in 4 months

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press

Asha Devi, mother of the victim of the fatal 2012 gang rape on a moving bus, displays the victory sign, with her husband Badrinath walking beside her as they leave Supreme Court in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019. India's Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the final appeal of one of the four men sentenced to death for the 2012 fatal gang rape of a woman on a moving bus in New Delhi, paving the way for the four to be hanged. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

India rejects final death sentence appeal in 2012 gang rape

By EMILY SCHMALL - Associated Press

Indian students of the Jamia Millia Islamia University shout slogans during a protest in New Delhi, India, Monday, Dec.16, 2019. Thousands of university students flooded the streets of India's capital to protest a new law giving citizenship to non-Muslims who entered India illegally to flee religious persecution in several neighboring countries. The protests followed a night of violent clashes between police and demonstrators at the University. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Across India, opposition building against citizenship law

By EMILY SCHMALL and SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

7 years after Delhi gang rape, brutal India attacks continue

By EMILY SCHMALL - Associated Press

Police clear road blocks as a man tries to douse a fire set by protestors in Gauhati, India, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2019. Police arrested dozens of people and enforced a curfew Thursday in several districts in India’s northeastern Assam state where thousands protested legislation that would grant citizenship to non-Muslims who migrated from neighboring countries. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Japan PM postpones trip to India’s violence-hit northeast

By WASBIR HUSSAIN - Associated Press

A demonstrator begs a police officer to allow them to proceed ahead during a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) in Gauhati, India, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019. Protesters burned tires and blocked highways and rail tracks in India's remote northeast for a second day Wednesday as the upper house of Parliament began debating legislation that would grant citizenship to persecuted Hindus and other religious minorities from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Police kill 2 protesters defying curfew in Indian state

By WASBIR HUSSAIN - Associated Press

In this Nov. 8, 2019 photo, a lock is seen on the entrance gate of grand Jamia Masjid, the main mosque in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir. The centuries-old Jamia Masjid in Srinagar city, apart from hosting the largest Muslim gatherings in disputed Kashmir, is also one of the nerve centers of anti-India protests. Thousands of people congregate here for prayers and Friday sermons at the mosque mainly revolve around the Kashmir conflict. But more than three months have passed and mosque gates continue to remain locked. Following India’s unilateral decision to strip the disputed region’s semiautonomous status in early August, authorities have not allowed any prayers at the mosque as part of their ongoing security clampdown. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

India’s crackdown hits religious freedom in disputed Kashmir

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press

Indians participate in a torch light procession to protest against the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) in Gauhati, India, Monday, Dec. 9, 2019. The bill that seeks to grant Indian citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan is being debated in the Indian Parliament. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Indian protesters stage shutdown against citizenship bill

By WASBIR HUSSAIN - Associated Press

Indian policemen watch the forensic experts investigate at the site where four men suspected of raping and killing a woman were killed in Shadnagar some 50 kilometers or 31 miles from Hyderabad, India, Friday, Dec. 6, 2019. Indian police on Friday fatally shot and killed four men suspected of raping and killing a woman in southern India, leading some to celebrate their deaths as justice in a case that has sparked protests across the country. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

Indian woman who alleged gang rape dies after burn attack

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