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Leaders express grief over conditions in Manipur relief camps; question need for camps if state is peaceful. Congress warns of security problems.

Nancy Chingthiannang’s husband and mother in law were murdered while she was left for dead on the road.

Agitators from the Kuki-Zo community suspect that this could be an attempt to bring in ‘radical’ Meiteis disguised as State forces into Moreh, while police have called such allegations ‘misleading’

The Astoria Grande cruise ship, carrying some 800 passengers including Russians, was forced to leave the Georgian Black Sea port of Batumi on July 27 upon arriving there the same day from the Russia port of Sochi, after groups of Georgians protested its presence there.

Iranian authorities are again cracking down on women breaking the country’s strict dress code as they try to reassert control after last year’s momentous protests that were rooted in demands for more freedoms in the Islamic Republic....

At least nine people have been killed, including three children, in a blast at a fireworks warehouse in a market in southern Thailand on Saturday....

Wagner fighters in Belarus could pose as migrants and enter the EU, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has warned....

South Africa’s radical leftist opposition party on Saturday urged the leaders of China, India and Brazil to boycott the Brics summit in Johannesburg next month in solidarity with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, who will not be attending....

Here is the situation on Saturday, July 29, 2023....

For over 80 consecutive days, the volatile situation in Manipur continues to grip the region, with reports of violence, arson, and gunfire emerging on a daily basis....

Self-proclaimed ‘village volunteers’ are armed with weapons sourced from the black market and looted from police armouries.

Russian forces pounded a key village that Ukraine claimed to have recaptured in its grinding counteroffensive in the country’s southeast, while Moscow accused Kyiv of firing missiles at southern Russia and wounding 20 people....

A court in Vietnam has jailed 54 people, including several high-ranking officials and a former minister, in one of the country’s largest ever bribery and corruption cases....

Russian President Vladimir Putin says his country and the African leaders attending a summit in St Petersburg have agreed to promote a multipolar world order and fight “neocolonialism” as he offered debt write-offs and grain to woo allies....

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has spoken out in defence of the country’s armed forces, days after an independent panel accused them of being complicit in the disappearances of dozens of students nearly a decade ago....

"It is indeed most unfortunate that his views — based on considered opinion and professional investigations — have been construed as criminal by individuals outside the academic community."

After graduating from university, Palath Dilokloetthanakorn, then 22, did what many other young Thai men do before starting their careers: he joined a Buddhist monastery....

Guayaquil, Ecuador — Some 2,700 soldiers on Tuesday stormed a prison in Ecuador, retaking control of the facility as the death toll from a riot that started over the weekend rose to 31 inmates, authorities said. The latest battle between rival gangs at the overcrowded, violence-hobbled Guayas 1 prison in the port city of...

Two 17-year-old students went missing near an area dominated by another community. They are feared dead but can’t trace their bodies, say cops.

Saudi Arabia has spent at least $6.3bn (£4.9bn) in sports deals since early 2021, more than quadruple the previous amount spent over a six-year period, in what critics have labelled an effort to distract from its human rights record....

Tax assistant Letminthang Haokip was killed on May 4 by a mob in Imphal, capital of Manipur state, India