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A man wades through a waterlogged street following heavy rains in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, July 2, 2019. Heavy monsoon rains in western India caused at least three walls to collapse onto huts and city shanties, killing more than two dozen people and injuring dozens of others, officials said Tuesday, as forecasters warned of more rains. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

Indian dam overflows after heavy monsoon rains, 12 dead

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This photo released by Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) shows Indian paramilitary personnel carry one among seven bodies believed to be from a missing team of international climbers after they were evacuated in helicopters from Himalayan mountain Nanda Devi and brought to Pithoragarh, northern India, Wednesday, July 3, 2019. Veteran British mountaineer Martin Moran led three other Britons, two Americans, an Australian and an Indian up Nanda Devi East. Contact was lost after a May 26 avalanche. (Indo Tibetan Border Police via AP)

Choppers retrieve 7 bodies believed to be Himalayan climbers

By BISWAJEET BANERJEE - Associated Press

Pakistan says explosion in Kashmir kills 5 soldiers

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

Indian business man Vijay Mallya leaves the High Court for a lunch break as he appeals against extradition to India to face fraud charges at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, Tuesday, July 2, 2019. Mallya, whose business empire once included Kingfisher beer, left India two and a half years ago after defaulting on debts of more than a billion dollars linked to a failing venture, Kingfisher Airlines. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

UK court rules Indian tycoon may appeal extradition

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Rescuers and onlookers stand at the spot of a wall collapse in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, July 2, 2019. Nearly a dozen people are feared killed. Building collapses are common in India during the June-September monsoon season, when heavy rains weaken the foundations of structures that are poorly constructed. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Multiple walls collapse in India monsoon rains, killing 31

By RAFIQ MAQBOOL - Associated Press

Maoist rebels kill 3 Indian government soldiers, young girl

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Rescuers stand at the site after a 23-meter (60-foot) high wall collapsed on a cluster of tin-roofed huts during monsoon rains in Pune, India, Saturday, June 29, 2019. More than a dozen workers were killed. (AP Photo/Mandar Tannu)

Wall collapses on huts in western India, killing 16

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping prepare for family photo session at G-20 leaders summit in Osaka, Japan, Friday, June 28, 2019. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Pool Photo via AP)

Putin uses G-20 to strengthen alliances, soothe tensions

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

In this Saturday, June 22, 2019 photo, a salesman holds a bag of California almond kernels for a customer at a shop in New Delhi, India. California almond farmers are facing long-term uncertainty in the wake of new tariffs on exports to India, the state's top market for almonds. Farmers and experts predict the tariffs, leveled by India amid trade tensions with the United States, will complicate almond sales abroad. The tariffs may result in increased almond prices for buyers, so farmers expect to sell less. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

India tariffs threaten California almond industry

By SAMANTHA MALDONADO - Associated Press

An activist of All India Peace and Solidarity Organization, AIPSO, a left-wing organization, holds a placard during a protest against the upcoming visit of U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to India, in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, June 25, 2019. Pompeo is scheduled to travel to India after having visited Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, on a trip aimed at building a global coalition to counter Iran. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

US secretary of state arrives in India amid trade tensions

By MARIYA AMRAYEVA - Associated Press

Activists of Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) shout slogans condemning deaths of more than 100 children in an encephalitis outbreak this month in eastern Bihar state, during a protest in Hyderabad, India, Monday, June 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

Death toll in Indian encephalitis outbreak rises to 152

By INDRAJIT SINGH - Associated Press

In this Oct. 8, 2016, photograph provided by Juniper Outdoor Pursuits Centre Pvt. Ltd., shows early morning light falling on Nanda Devi east base peak, seen from Pachu valley in Uttarakhand, India. Indian paramilitary soldiers have reached the bodies of seven of eight members from a team of international climbers believed killed on a notoriously dangerous Himalayan mountain, an official said Sunday. (Maninder Kohli/Juniper Outdoor Pursuits Centre Pvt. Ltd. via AP)

Bad weather hampers recovery of bodies from Indian peak

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Huge tent collapses at Indian ceremony, 14 reported dead

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a news conference on Monday, April 22, 2019, at the Department of State in Washington. The Trump administration on Monday told five nations — Japan, South Korea, Turkey, China and India — that they will no longer be exempt from U.S. sanctions if they continue to import oil from Iran. (AP Photo/Sait Serkan Gurbuz)

Mike Pompeo heads to India at ‘unique’ moment against China

By Guy Taylor and Maggie Garred - The Washington Times

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi performs yoga during an event to mark International Yoga Day in Ranchi, the capital of the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand, Friday, June 21, 2019. Yoga enthusiasts across the world Friday took part in mass yoga events to mark International Yoga Day. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar)

India uses yoga diplomacy to assert rising global influence

By EMILY SCHMALL - Associated Press

EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - A woman attends to her injured child receiving treatment at a hospital in Kullu, in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, Thursday, June 20, 2019. A bus fell into a deep gorge along a sharp curve on a mountainous road in northern India, killing more than 20, police said. Dozens more people were injured and hospitalized in Kullu, a town in Himachal Pradesh state, police officer Shalini Agnihotri said. (AP Photo/Aqil Khan)

39 killed as bus falls into deep gorge in northern India

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FILE- In this Feb. 23, 2016 file photo, the Indian parliament building is seen from behind a Mahatma Gandhi statue, right, in New Delhi, India. India's recent national election delivered a historic victory to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist party, but also exposed the influence of money, power and questionable morality on the world's largest democracy. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

Dozens of new Indian parliamentarians face criminal charges

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

Indian police accuse man of spreading Islamic State ideology

By EMILY SCHMALL - Associated Press

India to launch second moon mission in July

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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is shown in this Associated Press file photo. **FILE**

Mike Pompeo touts benefits of expanded trade with India

By Maggie Garred - The Washington Times