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Smuggler caught with dozens of venomous vipers ‘concealed in checked-in baggage’ on plane

A passenger smuggling dozens of venomous vipers was stopped after flying into the financial capital Mumbai, India from Thailand, Indian customs officials said. The snakes, which included 44 Indonesian pit…

John McCarthy June 2, 2025

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Father of missing US student Sudiksha Konanki asks for wider investigation in Dominican Republic

SANTO DOMINGO (AP) — The father of a 20-year-old University of Pittsburgh student Sudiksha Konanki, who went missing in the popular Dominican Republic tourist town of Punta Cana while on spring…

John McCarthy March 10, 2025

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Joy and wonder: Between the bumps of the world, exuberance shone through in 2024

She jumps, her eyes closed, and she grins — this little girl surrounded by gang violence in her own neighborhood in Haiti. The jump rope game she is playing brings…

John McCarthy December 17, 2024

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India’s Modi offers aid to Caribbean nations while meeting leaders in Guyana

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Wednesday he would share technology for combatting seaweed infestation with Caribbean nations, as he visited Guyana in the first such…

John McCarthy November 21, 2024

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India’s ban on Salman Rushdie ‘The Satanic Verses’ may end — thanks to missing paperwork

NEW DELHI (AP) — The decades-long ban of Salman Rushdie’s “The Satanic Verses” in his native India is now in doubt — not because of a change of heart more than two…

John McCarthy November 16, 2024

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India’s Modi sucks up to Putin in Russia at Moscow meeting to lock in cheap oil prices

MOSCOW — India and Russia each denied this week that there had been any disagreement between President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at their talks in Moscow…

John McCarthy July 14, 2024

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Indian Official Suspended After He Drains Reservoir To Get Phone He Dropped Taking A Selfie

The water was enough to irrigate at least 1,500 acres of land during India’s scorching summer. NEW DELHI — A government official in central India has been suspended after he…

John McCarthy May 31, 2023

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Apple Says It Will Manufacture iPhone 14 in India

NEW DEHLI — Apple Inc said today it will manufacture its latest iPhone 14 in India, as the tech giant moves some of its production away from China. The company launched…

John McCarthy September 26, 2022

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India Opens Embassy In The Dominican Republic

SANTO DOMINGO — India opened its embassy in the Dominican Republic on January 1 2022, with the arrival of the Second Secretary Arup Saha in the capital. The newly-launched twitter…

Bro Bot January 5, 2022

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Rooster Kills Indian Man During Banned Cockfight

HYDERABAD, India — A man was killed by a rooster with a blade tied to its leg during an illegal cockfight in southern India, police said, bringing focus on a…

VI Free Press March 1, 2021