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Why did the Philippine vice president threaten to assassinate her boss?

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AI makes the fashion industry faster and greener. But what will that mean for workers?

How India’s crackdown on Kashmir – and the blowback – transformed the region’s politics

The kids are all right: How rural India’s ‘goat nurses’ help animals – and themselves

This Delhi cop wants to ‘spread goodness and happiness.’ So he set up a school.

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Sri Lanka elects Marxist lawmaker as president after years of economic turmoil

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Why Kashmir’s local election could usher in a new political era

A former prime minister facing military trial? Pakistan flirts with risky precedent.

To reach Kashmir’s Himalayan nomads, teachers bring classrooms to the pasture

Protests over women’s safety in India are taking cues from an unusual source

Five years after India stripped it of statehood, Kashmir prepares for elections

Young, educated, and jobless: Is India’s unemployment crisis ‘waiting to explode’?

On paper, Bangladesh was on the rise. Why didn’t progress translate on the ground?

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World’s longest-serving female prime minister flees Bangladesh amid protests