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Serial bombs kill at least 65 in India’s Assam state

Eleven bomb blasts ripped through the main city of India’s troubled north-eastern Assam state and three other towns on Thursday, killing at least 65.

Monsoon misery spreads in India

Rains and rising floodwaters forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes in north-eastern India and sent elephants and rhinos fleeing.

Cyclone increases army looting on Burma borders

Cyclone damage to the Irrawaddy Delta, Burma’s rice bowl, has caused a surge in looting in its restive border areas by poorly paid troops worried about food shortages, residents…

Flooding leaves 3,5-million homeless in India

Soldiers in motor boats rescued thousands of marooned people and helicopters air-dropped food as the number of people left homeless after some of the worst flooding in years in…

South Asian floods kill 250 people, pack hospitals

Packed hospitals in eastern India struggled to cope with people suffering waterborne diseases on Saturday and marooned villagers clashed with police as some of the worst floods…

Rebels kill dozens in multiple attacks in India

Separatist rebels in India’s restive north-eastern state of Assam killed 43 people, mostly labourers and traders, in a series of coordinated overnight attacks, police said on…