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What happened in sub’s final moments
Investigators have begun putting together pictures of the doomed Indonesian submarine’s wreckage to find out how the tragedy occurred.
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India Covid: Delhi builds makeshift funeral pyres as deaths climb
Crematoriums in the Indian capital Delhi have been forced to build makeshift funeral pyres, as the city runs out of space to cremate its dead.
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India's Covid-19 crisis 'beyond heartbreaking' as first foreign aid trickles in
The first emergency medical supplies trickled into Covid-stricken India on Tuesday as part of efforts to staunch a catastrophic wave in the latest pandemic hotspot, with the United States also pledging to export millions of AstraZeneca vaccine doses.
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Worrying side-effect of India crisis
Critics have sounded alarm bells for the public as India’s brutal second wave of COVID-19 whittles away “whatever remains of democracy”.