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Hundreds of trash-laden balloons have been dropped in South Korea, reigniting a tit-for-tat exchange after South Korean activists sent floating packages in the other direction carrying K-pop and K-dramas on USB sticks.

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The sister to India's main opposition Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, is set to contest her first election, ending decades of anticipation by her supporters.

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Rahul Gandhi, India's opposition leader, has demanded an investigation into a stock market crash that hit investors at the end of the general election.

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A fatal train crash in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal has claimed the lives of 8 Indian citizens and injuring 60 others.

The accident occurred when a goods train hit a stationary passenger train, the Kanchenjungha Express, in the New Jalpaiguri area on Monday morning. Dramatic visuals from the accident site showed one wagon of the express train suspended in the air.

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World's biggest election that saw hundreds of millions of votes cast, more than six weeks of polling, and billions of dollars spent comes to an end. India on Tuesday will declare a new leader after a mammoth nationwide election that has become a referendum on the last decade of leadership by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Four Iowa Cornell College instructors were taken to hospital after a "serious incident" during a daytime attack by a 55-year-old man in the northern province of Jilin.