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Pakistan to Launch Construction of ‘Corridor of Peace’ with India

By Ayaz Gul/ VOA News ISLAMABAD — Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan will lay the foundation stone Wednesday for what is dubbed as a cross-border "corridor of peace" to allow religious devotees from...

Returning Refugees Face Uncertainty in Eastern Myanmar Settlement

by Steve Sandford/Voice of America LAY KAY KAW, MYANMAR  — Black diesel smoke belches from a rusty engine that pumps water to the relatively new eastern Myanmar town of Lay Kay Kaw, about 5...

Tribe Suspected in Death of American in India Among Most Isolated

By Anjana Pasricha/VOA New NEW DELHI — The death of an American at the hands of one of the world's most secluded tribes on an island off India's mainland has turned the spotlight on...

Interpol Elects South Korea’s Kim Jong Yang as President

VOA News Interpol's general assembly voted Wednesday to make South Korea's Kim Jong Yang its new president. Kim had been serving as the organization's acting president and will serve the final two years...

Dozens Killed in Kabul Suicide Blast

By Ayaz Gul/VOA News ISLAMABAD — Afghan officials say at least 50 people were killed and 83 others were wounded in a suicide bomb blast at a gathering of religious scholars in the capital,...

India-China Rivalry Reflected in Regional Political Developments

By Anjana Pasricha/VOA News NEW DELHI — Political developments in two tiny countries in the Indian Ocean region, Maldives and Sri Lanka, reflect the growing rivalry between India and China in the strategic region....

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