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French President Emmanuel Macro, left, welcomes Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi before a meeting at the Chateau of Chantilly, north of Paris, Thursday Aug. 22, 2019. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be a guest at the G7 in Biarritz. (Pascal Rossignol, Pool via AP)

France presses India to opt for dialogue in Kashmir crisis

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In this Aug. 12, 2019, photo, Kashmiri Muslims shout slogans during a protest after Eid prayers in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir. Troops in India-administered Kashmir allowed some Muslims to walk to local mosques alone or in pairs to pray for the Eid al-Adha festival on Monday during an unprecedented security lockdown that still forced most people in the disputed region to stay indoors on the Islamic holy day. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Donald Trump urges Pakistan PM to talk to India on Kashmir

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2019 file photo, India's Border Security Force (BSF) soldiers patrol near the India Pakistan border fencing at Garkhal in Akhnoor, about 35 kilometers (22 miles) west of Jammu, India. Pakistan's prime minister assured Kashmiri people living in the Indian-administered part of the divided region that he supports them in their struggle for self-determination. In his statement Wednesday, Imran Khan condemned New Delhi's decision Aug. 5 to downgrade Kashmir's status, as he began celebrations marking Pakistan's independence day.(AP Photo/Channi Anand)

India’s Modi defends Kashmir policy amid clash with Pakistan

By SHEIKH SAALIQ and EMILY SCHMALL - Associated Press

FILE- In this May 16, 2014 file photo, Indians take photographs of a portrait of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Narendra Modi, with an outline of the India map made with colored powder and surrounded by rose petals, in Gandhinagar, Gujarat state, India. Modi, who became a Hindu nationalist before he was 10 years old, has upended life in India’s only Muslim-majority state, flexing those nationalist muscles for his millions of followers. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das, File)

Modi clamps down on Kashmir, and India loves him for it

By TIM SULLIVAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, March 14, 2019, file photo, an Indian paramilitary soldier holds a flag of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as he stands guard during a meeting of the party ahead of the upcoming elections in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has promised early elections in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir days after stripping it of statehood and turning it into a federally administered territory. In an address to the nation late Thursday, Aug. 8, Modi said the change in Kashmir’s set-up will help free the disputed region of “terrorism and separatism” and put it on a path of development. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan, File)

Roadmap for India’s troubled Kashmir under its new status

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 8, 2019, file photo, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, left, and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah attends the release of BJP's manifesto for the upcoming general elections in New Delhi, India. Modi’s vision of a Hindu India took a leap forward with his government’s decision in August to subsume Kashmir into the federal government by eliminating its special status and allowing anyone to buy property and move into the state, raising fears among residents that they will lose their distinct identity. Modi’s home minister, Amit Shah, considered the architect of the Hindu nationalist-led government’s aggressive agenda to convert India from a secular, multicultural democracy into a distinctly Hindu, culturally and politically homogenous state, sold the new policy on Kashmir to parliament by equating it with Pakistan, India’s staunch foe. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

Modi’s vision of a Hindu India advanced by Kashmir changes

By AMRIT DHILLON - Associated Press

Indian soldiers stand guard in Srinagar, India, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2019. Tensions have soared along the volatile, highly militarized frontier between India and Pakistan in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, as India has deployed more troops and ordered thousands of visitors out of the region. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)

India government revokes disputed Kashmir’s special status

By Sheikh Saaliq and Emily Schmall - Associated Press

FILE- In this June 26, 2019 file photo, Indian protesters shout slogans as they hold placards and candles during a protest condemning mob lynching of Muslim youth Tabrez Ansari in Jharkhand state, in New Delhi, India. Dozens of Indian celebrities have asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to intervene and stop rising incidents of attacks on minorities, misuse of religion by Hindu hard-liners and intolerance against dissent in the country. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri, File)

Indian celebrities protest attacks on dissent, minorities

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

FILE- In this June 28, 2019 file photo, President Donald Trump shakes hands with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, left, during a meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan. India's opposition leaders are angrily demanding Modi clarify his position in Parliament about Trump mediating India's long-running dispute with Pakistan over Kashmir. India's External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said in Parliament on Tuesday that Modi made no such request to Trump as the U.S. president had claimed. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Indian opposition wants Modi to clarify Trump Kashmir claim

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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

In this Sept. 9, 2015 file photo, Sanjiv Bhatt, an Indian officer with the intelligence bureau in the western state of Gujarat during the 2002 riots, speaks on his mobile phone in Ahmadabad, India. An Indian court has sentenced a former police officer, who alleged Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s complicity in the killing of Muslims in western Gujarat state in 2002, to life in prison for a custodial death. Judge D.N. Vyas on Thursday, June 20, 2019, sentenced Bhatt in a case relating to the arrest of 150 people, one of whom died in police detention in 1990 in Gujarat state. The man's family said he died after he was tortured by Bhatt and some other police officers. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki, File)

Indian police officer jailed over death of person in custody

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, center is received by the Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena, center left, upon his arrival at the presidential secretariat in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sunday, June 9, 2019. Modi arrived in Sri Lanka on Sunday for a brief visit as part of his first overseas tour since reelection that emphasizes India's &quot;neighborhood-first&quot; policy. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

India, Sri Lanka agree to step up anti-terrorism efforts

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI - Associated Press

Modi visits Maldives, signaling India’s return as key ally

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India’s new government signals Hindu and India-first goals

By EMILY SCHMALL - Associated Press

India’s prime minister names Cabinet after decisive election

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Indian Finance Minister Jaitley opts out of new government

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FILE- In this Aug. 15, 2014 file photo, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the nation on the country's Independence Day in New Delhi, India. India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi won a second term in office by presenting a muscular image to voters by ordering an air strike inside Pakistan in response to a suicide attack on Indian paramilitary forces in troubled Kashmir ahead of national elections. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das, File)

Analysis: India’s Modi faces foreign pressures in 2nd term

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

Newly elected lawmakers from India's ruling alliance led by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party raise their hands in support of Narendra Modi being elected their leader in New Delhi, India, Saturday, May 25, 2019. BJP president Amit Shah announced Modi's name as the leader of the National Democratic Alliance in a meeting of the lawmakers in the Central Hall of Parliament in New Delhi, paving the way for Modi's second five-year term as prime minister after a thunderous victory in national elections. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

India’s president appoints Modi as premier for 2nd term

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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah, second left, and Home Minister Rajnath Singh, second right, present a giant floral garland to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the party headquarters in New Delhi, India, Thursday, May 23, 2019. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party claimed it had won reelection with a commanding lead in Thursday's vote count, while the stock market soared in anticipation of another five-year term for the pro-business Hindu nationalist leader. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Analysis: Economy, Hindu-first impact are Modi’s challenges

By AMRIT DHILLON - Associated Press

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah greet supporters on arrival at the party headquarters in New Delhi, India, Thursday, May 23, 2019. Modi's Hindu nationalist party claimed it won reelection with a commanding lead in Thursday's vote count, while the head of the main opposition party conceded a personal defeat that signaled the end of an era for modern India's main political dynasty. (AP Photo)

India’s ruling party takes 303 of 542 seats in election win

By EMILY SCHMALL - Associated Press