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Indian villagers crush tiger to death after it killed man

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In this Saturday, Nov. 3, 2018, photo, Sri Lankans spend their evening outside the Chinese funded sea reclamation project in Colombo, Sri Lanka. China and India are closely watching the constitutional crisis in Sri Lanka, the latest venue for their struggle for geopolitical supremacy in South Asia. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Rivals China, India cautiously watch Sri Lankan crisis

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Correction: India-Rape story

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Indian court seeks pricing of Rafale jet deal with France

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In this grab made from video provided by KK Productions, an Indian policeman injured in an ambush is taken on a stretcher out of an ambulance in Dantewada district, in Chhattisgarh state, India, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2018. (KK Production via AP)

Rebels kill TV cameraman, 2 policemen in central India

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FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018 file photo, an unidentified couple gets married at Taft Point in California's Yosemite National Park. The viewpoint overlooks Yosemite Valley, including El Capitan, a popular vertical ascent for rock climbers across the globe. Yosemite National Park officials have identified two people who died after falling from a popular overlook as a man and a woman from India who were living and working in the United States. Park officials said Monday, Oct. 29, 2018 they were 29-year-old Vishnu Viswanath and his 30-year-old female companion, Meenakshi Moorthy. Park officials recovered their bodies about 800 feet (245 meters) below Taft Point last week. (AP Photo/Amanda Lee Myers, File)

Indian couple who died in Yosemite took risks for photos

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Maoist rebels kill 4 Indian paramilitary soldiers

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Protesters burn Hindu religious center in southern India

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Explosion at Indian fireworks factory kills 8 people

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Kashmiri villagers carry body of rebel Sahir Ahmed, during his funeral procession in Arwani, 55 kilometers (35 miles) south of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, Oct. 26, 2018. Officials say eight rebels and two Indian soldiers have been killed in gunbattles in disputed Kashmir that sparked violent anti-India protests by residents seeking an end to Indian rule in the region. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

8 rebels, 2 Indian soldiers killed in Kashmir fighting

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Rahul Gandhi, center, the main opposition Indian National Congress party chief, walks towards Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) headquarters during a protest march in New Delhi, India, Friday, Oct. 26, 2018. Gandhi led a protest by his party workers demanding an investigation by a parliamentary panel into the Rafale deal Narendra Modi's government signed with the French government in 2016. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

India’s top court orders quick probe of 2 federal officials

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Indian police men use their shields during clashes with Kashmiri protesters in Srinagar, India, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018. Police say government forces have killed two rebels during a gunbattle in the outskirts of disputed Kashmir's main city, sparking violent anti-India protests by residents. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Anti-India protests in Kashmir after troops kill 2 rebels

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In this Oct. 3, 2018 photo, Satyawart, left, and Balvinder Singh, immigrants from India freed from the federal prison in Sheridan, Ore., talk at the Dasmesh Darbar Sikh temple in Salem, Ore. After Trump's zero-tolerance policy recently sent immigrant detainees to a federal prison in rural Oregon, more than 100 lawyers, retirees, recent college graduates, clergy and others in the area stepped up to help out. (AP Photo/Amanda Loman)

In a prison and a temple, Oregonians help detained migrants

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An elderly Kashmiri villager cries during the funeral of Uzair Mushtaq in Kulgam 75 Kilometers south of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Sunday, Oct. 21, 2018. Three local rebels were killed in a gunbattle with Indian government forces in disputed Kashmir on Sunday, and six civilians were killed in an explosion at the site after the fighting was over, officials and residents said. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

Anti-India strike shuts Kashmir amid anger over deaths

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Zika outbreak in northern India state exceeds 100 cases

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Kashmiri men take an injured civilian on a stretcher inside a hospital in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Sunday, Oct. 21, 2018. Three suspected rebels were killed in a gun battle with Indian government forces in disputed Kashmir on Sunday, and at least three civilians were killed in an explosion at the site after the fighting was over, officials and residents said. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

8 combatants, 6 civilians die in Kashmir battles, clashes

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The body of a victim of a train accident lies covered in cloth on a railway track in Amritsar, India, Friday, Oct. 19, 2018. A speeding train ran over a crowd watching fireworks during a religious festival in northern India on Friday, killing at least 50 people, a Congress party leader said. (AP Photo/Prabhjot Gill)

Train mows down crowd at India festival, at least 60 dead

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FILE - In this Dec. 1, 2015 file photo, Hindu worshippers stand in queues outside the Sabarimala temple, one of the world's largest Hindu pilgrimage sites, in the southern Indian state of Kerala. India's ruling party and the main opposition are both supporting a protest to keep females of menstruating age from entering the temple, in what some political observers say is a bid to shore up votes ahead of next year's general election. The country's Supreme Court had on Sept. 28, 2018, lifted the temple's ban on women of menstruating age, holding that equality is supreme irrespective of age and gender. (AP Photo/ Hareesh Kumar A S, File)

Indian temple priests turn back women, defying court ruling

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This image taken from video footage run on Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018 by China's CCTV via AP Video, shows a landslide and barrier lake on Yarlung Tsangpo in Tibet in western China. Thousands of people have been evacuated following a landslide in Tibet that blocked the flow of one of the region's key rivers, China's emergency services said Thursday. Headlines in Chinese reads: &quot;Oct. 17 footage provided by firefighter&quot; &quot;natural disaster emergency protocol activated.&quot;(CCTV via AP Video)

China orders evacuations after landslide blocks Tibet river

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Protestors who are opposed to allowing women of menstruating age from entering the Sabarimala temple chant devotional hymns as they gather at Nilackal, a base camp on way to the mountain shrine in Kerala, India, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018. The historic mountain shrine, one of the largest Hindu pilgrimage centers in the world is set to open its doors to females of menstruating age following a ruling by the country's top court. Police arrested some protesters when they tried to block the path of some females. (AP Photo)

Observers: India temple protest support a bid for votes

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press