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Fans dance as India court grants bail to Bollywood superstar

Apr 8, 2018

A court has granted bail to Bollywood superstar Salman Khan, who is appealing his conviction on charges of poaching rare deer in a wildlife preserve two decades ago

Bollywood star Salman Khan gets 5 years for poaching deer

Apr 6, 2018

Bollywood superstar Salman Khan has been convicted in a 20-year-old poaching case and sentenced to five years in prison

Indian wildlife sanctuary sees jump in one-horned rhinos

Mar 20, 2018

A tiny wildlife sanctuary in northeastern India has reported a jump in the number of one-horned rhinoceroses

US focusing anti-Taliban effort inside Kabul

Mar 14, 2018

The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan says the main focus of the fight against the Taliban insurgency is now Kabul, where militants have taken advantage of loose security to organize and carry out attacks killing large numbers of civilians

French president pokes at Trump for leaving Paris accord

Mar 11, 2018

French President Emmanuel Macron has taken a jibe at President Donald Trump for withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement

India, France to work for Indian Ocean freedom of navigation

Mar 10, 2018

India and France have pledged to work together to ensure freedom of navigation in the Indian Ocean and have signed an agreement to expedite construction of a big nuclear power plant in India by a French company

UN development program names Pakistani a goodwill ambassador

Feb 26, 2018

U.N.'s development program appoints first Pakistani woman to climb Mound Everest its goodwill ambassador for the country

Robert De Niro takes aim at Trump's climate change policy

Feb 11, 2018

Hollywood star Robert De Niro took aim at the Trump administration's stance on climate change, telling a packed audience in the Middle East that he was visiting from a "backward" country suffering from "temporary insanity."

Iranian-Canadian dies in custody in Tehran after crackdown

Feb 11, 2018

Activists and a family member say an Iranian-Canadian university professor has died while in custody in Tehran

Indian army soldiers fight fire from highly polluted lake

Jan 20, 2018

Thousands of Indian troops are fighting a huge fire emanating from a highly polluted lake that has caused panic among thousands of people in the southern city of Bangalore.