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Sri Lanka crisis: House of Cards in the Indian OceanSri Lanka crisis: House of Cards in the Indian Ocean
Image caption The key players: Mahinda Rajapaksa, Maithripala Sirisena and Ranil Wickremesinghe

What is happening in Sri Lanka right now sits somewhere in between House of Cards, Game of Thrones and Shakespeare's darkest Roman plays. It involves a man who betrayed his leader only now to return him to power, an

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Ramachandra Guha: How the right wing hounded out a Gandhi biographerRamachandra Guha: How the right wing hounded out a Gandhi biographer
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Three years ago, Ramachandra Guha, a historian and one of India's most respected public intellectuals, told an interviewer that India was "becoming a more intolerant country" than before.

A 50-year-old Muslim man had been killed in a mob lynching allegedly over rumours that his family had been storing and consuming beef

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Meghan and Harry: Lots of flowers, cheering and baby giftsMeghan and Harry: Lots of flowers, cheering and baby gifts
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There were lots of flowers.

There was lots of cheering. There were lots of gifts for the expected baby, the announcement of which kicked off the tour.

There were welcomes from men in grass skirts and from men with their tongues sticking out.

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Blasphemy ruling: The judges risking their livesBlasphemy ruling: The judges risking their lives
Image caption Asia Bibi's case has been hugely divisive in religiously conservative Pakistan

This could have been an open and shut case.

The complainants had quarrelled with Asia Bibi, and could be reasonably suspected of having dragged her to the court out of malice.

The fact that a formal police complaint was

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Jin Yong: The 'Tolkien of Chinese literature' dies at 94Jin Yong: The 'Tolkien of Chinese literature' dies at 94
Image copyrightReutersImage caption Mr Cha is a legend in the Chinese literary world

He's been referred to as the JRR Tolkien of Chinese literature and the grandfather of martial arts novels - but very few people have heard of him outside the Chinese-speaking world.

Novelist Louis Cha, who wrote under the name

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North and South Korea: The football game that kicked off peaceNorth and South Korea: The football game that kicked off peace
Image copyrightReutersImage caption Players of South Korea (in blue) and North Korea (in white) ran together in unison

What does it take to help bring the Korean peninsula back from the brink of war It turns out that there are two key ingredients: soccer and soju.

Last December, as US President Donald Trump was

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