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Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina resigns and flees to West Bengal, India.
2024-08-5

Canada withdraws 41 diplomats from India due to India's decision to revoke the diplomats' immunity following the death of Sikh independence leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
2023-10-19

In a 35-page report, a commission appointed by the World Health Organization (WHO) to investigate sex abuses during the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo finds that there were "clear structural failures" and "individual negligence" for the sex abuse and rape of women and girls between 2018 and 2020 by WHO staff. WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom apologizes for the abuses.
2021-09-28

Japan reports its first five cases of the "double mutant" Lineage B.1.617 variant first detected in India.
2021-04-22

A landslide during floods at a tea plantation in Kerala, India, leaves at least 49 people dead. It is feared that many more people are buried under debris.
2020-08-10

Authorities find the remains of two missing U.N. investigators—former Swedish politician Zaida Catalán and U.S. national Michael Sharp—in a shallow grave in the province of Kasaï-Central, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
2017-03-28

A Democratic Republic of the Congo protest calling for the resignation of President Joseph Kabila turns violent in Kinshasa, leaving at least 17 people dead, including three police officers. Opposition groups say that 50 people died.
2016-09-19

A United Nations arbitration court rules India must allow an Italian marine, facing charges of murdering two fishermen during an anti-piracy mission in 2012, to return home pending the Permanent Court of Arbitration's decision over jurisdiction. The suspect, who will remain under the authority of the Supreme Court of India, has been staying in the Italian embassy in New Delhi; his co-defendant returned to Italy with health problems in 2014.
2016-05-2

Violent riots break out in Kaliachak, West Bengal, India, after political activist Kamlesh Tiwari allegedly insulted the Muslim prophet Muhammad.
2016-01-5

A United Nations peacekeeper from India is killed in the eastern Congo. [http:--www.mercurynews.com-breaking-news-ci_21018996-un-peacekeeper-killed-volatile-eastern-congo (AP via "San Jose Mercury News")]date=August 2019
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