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South and central Asia

July 2024

  • Mountain Queen The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa.

    Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa review – a female Everest climber’s ascent

  • Protesters clash with guards in the street

    Bangladesh student protests turn into ‘mass movement against a dictator’

  • Young man with beard turned to one side revealing arm with severe bruising

    Bangladeshi students allege police torture after protests crackdown

  • Ramiz Safa playing his rubab

    ‘The Taliban tried to silence us’: the musicians who escaped to Portugal

  • ‘I fear they will kill me for talking’: The Pakistani poet abducted for his activism

  • Bangladesh’s top court cuts job quotas that led to deadly student-led protests

  • Bangladesh police given ‘shoot-on-sight’ orders amid national curfew

  • Rights and freedom
    Myanmar junta ‘bombing schools’, with 170 sites hit in past three years – report

  • National curfew imposed in Bangladesh after student protesters storm prison

  • Protesters attack Bangladeshi state broadcaster after PM’s call for calm

  • Snakes beware: reptiles targeted across Bangladesh after rise in sightings of Russell’s viper

  • Pakistan’s government seeks to ban party of former PM Imran Khan

  • Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi’s unlawful marriage convictions overturned by Pakistan court

  • Ambani wedding: guests from Bollywood stars to global statesmen attend lavish event

  • Ambani wedding: after months of celebrations, the ‘Windsors of India’ finally set to marry

  • UK should restore diplomatic presence to help Afghan women, says aid chief

  • Agent of Happiness review – Bhutan surveyors attempt to analyse joy

  • Record number of journalists killed in Pakistan already this year

  • Modi tells Putin that the 'heart bleeds' when innocent children are killed – video

  • Modi and Putin cement ‘bonds of friendship’ despite Ukraine tensions

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