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<p>Participants walk down a road during a ‘Vote-A-Thon’ to encourage turnout </p>

Modi courts India’s first-time voters as election momentum falters

With online games, parodies of reality TV and brightly coloured cartoons carrying dark and divisive messaging, India’s ruling party is using every resource at its disposal to appeal to a new generation of voters. Maroosha Muzaffar explores whether it is working

<p>Newborn baby Ruhi, pictured here before the fire at home with her parents, is one of seven killed in the blaze </p>

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'How will I tell my wife?' Anger and despair as fire at unlicensed children's hospital kills 7

<p>Taiwanese lawmakers from the Democratic Progressive Party throw inflatable balloons with words reading ‘anti evil laws’ at the Parliament President Han Kuo-yu, at the chamber inside the Legislative Yuan, in Taipei, Taiwan</p>

Taiwan passes law favouring China and limiting new president’s powers

<p>A worker installs a barrier to block the sight of Japan’s Mount Fuji emerging from behind a convenience store to deter badly behaved tourists, in the town of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi prefecture</p>

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