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Stranded foreign passengers wait for their train at New Delhi railway station, in New Delhi, India, Monday, July 30, 2012. The electricity grid across northern India failed Monday, leaving hundreds of millions of people without electricity in one of the worst power failures of the past decade, officials said. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

370M Indians swelter in heat after power fails

Last updated Monday, July 30, 2012 - 9:44am

NEW DELHI — Northern India’s power grid crashed Monday, halting hundreds of trains, forcing hospitals and airports to use backup generators and leaving 370 million people — more than the population of the United States and Canada combined — sweltering in the summer heat.

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FILE - In this April 24, 2009 file photo, a Sri Lankan soldier stands guard near the war zone of Putumattalan in Puthukudiyiruppu, about 240 kilometers (150 miles) northeast of Colombo, Sri Lanka. On Thursday, April 26, 2012, The Associated Press obtained a copy of an email, saying unexploded cluster munitions have been found in northern Sri Lanka, appearing to confirm, for the first time, that they were used in that country's long civil war. (AP Photo/ Eranga Jayawardena, File)

UN finds cluster bombs in Sri Lanka

Ravi Nessman The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, April 26, 2012 - 11:29am

NEW DELHI -- A report from a U.N. mine removal expert says unexploded cluster munitions have been found in northern Sri Lanka, appearing to confirm, for the first time, that they were used in that country's long civil war.

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This photograph released by the Indian Ministry of Defense shows India's Agni-V missile, with a range of 5,000 kilometers (3,100 miles), being launched from Wheeler Island off India's east coast, Thursday, April 19, 2012. India announced the successful test launch Thursday of the new nuclear-capable missile that would give it the ability to strike the major Chinese cities of Beijing and Shanghai for the first time, a significant step forward in its aspirations to become a regional and world power. (AP Photo/Indian Ministry of Defense)

India tests nuke-capable missile able to hit China

Ravi Nessman The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, April 19, 2012 - 9:35am

NEW DELHI -- India announced the successful test launch Thursday of a new nuclear-capable missile that would give it the ability to strike the major Chinese cities of Beijing and Shanghai for the first time, a significant step forward in its aspirations to become a regional and world power.

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India: Pakistan spies tied to Mumbai siege

Ashok Sharma, Ravi Nessman, The Associated Press ahowell

Last updated Tuesday, October 19, 2010 - 5:09pm

NEW DELHI -- An American convicted in the 2008 Mumbai attacks said Pakistan's main spy agency was deeply involved in planning that strike, monitoring the preparations and providing funding and advice to the attackers, according to an Indian government summary of his interrogation.

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Priest accused of US abuse still working in India

Patrick Condon, Ravi Nessman The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, April 5, 2010 - 4:50pm

INTERACTIVE: The Vatican's role in sex abuse scandals

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Top officials at the Vatican were warned more than four years ago about a Catholic priest later charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in Minnesota, according to newly released Vatican correspondence, but to this day he continues to work in his home diocese in India.

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