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News Wrap: India’s Modi visits Ukraine in bid to help mediate peace with Russia

In our news wrap Friday, Indian Prime Minister Modi met with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, the White House described ongoing Gaza cease-fire talks as “constructive,” a Canadian rail workers union issued a strike warning, 16 GOP-led states sued to end a…

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Floods cause at least 15 deaths, strand hundreds of thousands in Bangladesh and India

By Julhas Alam, Associated Press

Floodwaters have stranded hundreds of thousands of people in India’s northeast and neighboring Bangladesh’s eastern region, officials and media reports said Thursday.

India’s top court establishes task force on workplace safety after doctor was raped and killed

By Sheikh Saaliq, Associated Press

The Supreme Court's order comes days after the rape and killing of a trainee doctor in eastern Kolkata city that sparked outrage and nationwide protests.

After a colleague was raped and killed at a hospital, Indian doctors demand tougher laws

By Associated Press

The protesting doctors, holding up placards like “Justice delayed is justice denied,” were stopped by police om Monday as they tried to set up free outpatient services outside the ministry in New Delhi.

Thousands in India protest over rape and murder of a female doctor at government hospital

By Piyush Nagpal, Associated Press

The protests began Aug. 9 when police discovered the body of the 31-year-old trainee doctor at the state-run R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital’s seminar hall in eastern Kolkata city.

In India, families ran for higher ground as water surged against their doors. Now everything is wiped away

By Rishi Lekhi, Associated Press

When deadly landslides struck hillside villages in southern India on Tuesday, many people ran toward higher ground and watched their homes get swept away by torrents of mud, floodwater and giant rolling boulders.

After 3 days of searching mud and debris, hopes of finding landslide survivors wane in India

By Rishi Lekhi, Rafiq Maqbool, Associated Press

Hopes of finding missing people alive are waning as rescue workers searched through mud and debris for a third day after landslides in southern India.

Landslides caused by heavy rains in southern India kill at least 93 and bury many others

By Sheikh Saaliq, Associated Press

Multiple landslides triggered by torrential rains in southern India have killed 93 people and left many others feared trapped under the debris.

At least 18 dead in northern India after double-decker bus collides with milk truck

By Biswajeet Banerjee, Associated Press

India has some of the highest road death rates in the world, with hundreds of thousands of people killed and injured annually.

Putin hosts India’s prime minister in Russia to deepen ties, but war in Ukraine looms

By Emma Burrows, Krutika Pathi, Associated Press

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has met President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, seeking to deepen the two nuclear powers' relationship as NATO leaders gathered in Washington and Russia and launched deadly missile strikes in Ukraine that destroyed a children's hospital.