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Railway officials oversee the clear up operation of the mangled remains of the Bangalore-bound Hampi Express after it collided with a stationary goods train near Penukonda, about 105 miles north of Bangalore, India, on May 22, 2012.

The Associated Press reports — A passenger train rammed into a parked freight train and caught fire before dawn Tuesday in southern India, killing at least 25 people and injuring dozens more.

Rescuers worked for about six hours to pull some 70 survivors from the twisted and smoldering wreckage near the southwestern border of Andhra Pradesh state. Read the full story.

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Rescuers evacuate an injured woman from the train.

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Emergency services search for injured passengers under the derailed carriages.

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A man salvages his belongings after a fire in a slum at Shyamoli in Dhaka, the Bangladeshi capital, on May 16, 2012.

At least 10 people were injured, including a firefighter who sustained burns, and more than 150 shanties were burned down as a blaze swept through a Dhaka slum, Reuters reports. The local fire department said the cause of the blaze had yet to be ascertained.

Bangladeshi photographer Abir Abdullah, who took the photo below, has been documenting the havoc created by Dhaka's frequent fires for several years. He spoke to The New York Times about the project last month.

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A woman cries holding her child after she lost her shanty house in the fire.

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Firefighters work to control the blaze.

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A laborer lifts a sack of rotting wheat grain trying to salvage any that was still edible, at an open storage area in Khamanon village, some 133 miles from Amritsar, India, on May 9, 2012.

The Associated Press reports — Millions of tons of wheat are rotting in the open after India ran out of warehouse space to store another bumper crop.

Opposition parties have called the rotting grain a scandal. Nearly half of India's children under age 5 are malnourished.

Food Minister K.V. Thomas said Thursday the government was taking "all necessary steps" to increase its storage capacities and that the government was looking at private partnerships to attract investment in building warehouses. Read the full story.

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A laborer stands on rotting wheat grain at an open storage area in Khamanon village on May 9, 2012.

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Kashmiri government employees are sprayed with purple colored water by Indian police to disperse a protest in Srinagar on May 9.

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Indian police in Srinagar on May 9 used a water cannon and batons to disperse hundreds of government employees while detaining dozens as they attempted to reach the civil secretariat.

Indian police in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, detained dozens of government employees, used water cannons to control protestors and resorted to baton charging during a protest on May 9.

The government employees were demanding an increase in the retirement age from 58 to 60 and the release of arrears.

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A man, whose home was demolished, visits the area on May 9 where 250 squatter homes were demolished, in Kathmandu.

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A woman holds a picture of her grandson recovered from her demolished house in Kathmandu May 9.

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A boy looks up while searches for his belongings in the rubble of his former house at the slum settlement in Kathmandu, May 9, 2012.

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An elderly woman searches for her belongings in the rubble where her house used to stand May 9 at the slum settlement near the bank of Bagmati River, a day after 250 squatter homes, built illegally, were demolished, in Kathmandu.

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A demolished wall of a school is all that is left of the slum settlement near the bank of Bagmati River, in Kathmandu, May 9.

At least 1000 people living in a Kathmandu slum have become homeless and now are living in the park near the slum area. The demolition follows the government's decision to begin evicting nearly 10,000 people who've created squatter camps along the Bagmati river in the Nepali capital.

“I cried my heart out when I saw bulldozers demolishing our home,”34-year-old Manju Adhikari, a mother of daughters aged 15 and 17, told AFP.

“When my younger girl came back from school, she asked me where were we going to live. I didn’t have the answer. We have nowhere to go.”

Full story at Dawn.com

Photos from yesterday's riot, preceding the demolition on PhotoBlog.

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Landless people hurl stones towards riot police during a clash in Katmandu, Nepal, on May 8, 2012.

Riot police in Kathmandu arrested more than 20 protesters on Tuesday during clashes sparked by an attempt to evict landless squatters from their homes. Dozens were injured.  

The demolition drive follows a Nepali government decision to force the squatters out from an area beside the Thapathali hospital and move them to an alternative settlement along with the introduction of a property ownership document, according to local media reports.

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Police arrest landless squatters who live beside the Thapathali hospital during clashes with police personnel who arrived to demolish illegally-built houses in Kahmandu on May 8, 2012.

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A girl who used to live beside the Thapathali hospital cries during the clashes in Katmandu on May 8, 2012.

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A patient lies on a hospital bed upon receiving anesthesia during cataract surgery at the Tilganga Eye Center in Kathmandu, Nepal on April 25, 2012. About 150,000 of Nepal's 26.6 million people are estimated to be blind in both eyes, most of them with cataracts.

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A man smiles as he receives a routine eye check-up after his cataracts were removed.

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A simple eye operation pioneered by Doctor Sanduk Ruit, pictured, has benefited tens of thousands.

Reuters reports — Dressed in his hospital scrubs, Sanduk Ruit looks into the eyes of a patient through a microscope hanging over an operating table.

He makes two tiny holes in one eye, takes out a jelly-like mass of natural lens and replaces it with an artificial one that fits snugly into the patient's eye, all in about five minutes, deftly moving his fingers clad in thin white gloves.

The patient is then moved away swiftly, without any stitches, and Ruit repeats the process to remove cataracts - a leading cause of blindness in Nepal - from the eyes of another person.

"We are trying to set up a model of how you can conduct a very high quality prevention of blindness program at low cost and make it sustainable," said Ruit, who pioneered the simple operation. "If you can do it in Nepal it can be done anywhere in the world."

"Like a magician, he has given back my sight," said Krishna Kant Paudel, 81. It was the first time in four years that he could see. Read the full story.

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Ethiopian doctor Fikru Melka checks a patient's eyes at the Tilganga Eye Centre on April 26, 2012.

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A low-cost acrylic lens, also called an intraocular lens, is pictured on the monitor at the Tilganga Eye Centre's laboratory in Kathmandu on April 26, 2012. The lenses are produced at the center's laboratory by workers wearing bio-safe masks, helping bring the cost down to $4 per lens from more than $100 a piece.

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Patients wait to receive anesthesia before undergoing cataract surgery.

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Low-cost acrylic lenses are produced at the Tilganga Eye Center's laboratory. The center produces about 350,000 lenses annually and sells them to other nations.

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Villagers along with Border Security Force (BSF) personnel engaged in a rescue operation for a capsized ferry at the Brahmaputra River in Bura-Buri village in Goalpara district in Assam, India, on May 1, 2012.

The Associated Press reports — Army divers and rescue workers pulled 103 bodies out of a river after a packed ferry capsized in heavy winds and rain in remote northeast India, an official said Tuesday.

At least 100 people were still missing Tuesday after the ferry carrying about 350 people broke into two pieces late Monday, said Pritam Saikia, the district magistrate of Goalpara district.

Deep sea divers and disaster rescue soldiers worked through the night to pull bodies from the Brahmaputra River in Assam state. Rescue operations were centered around the tiny village of Buraburi near the India-Bangladesh border. Read the full story.

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Divers and rescue workers stepped up the search for survivors on Tuesday, May 1, 2012. The double-decked ferry was carrying approximately 300 passengers when it capsized during a storm in the western district of Dhubri on Monday evening. Some 100 people swam to safety or were rescued.

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A villager watches the rescue operation from the top of a banana tree on the bank of the Brahmaputra River.

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Relatives mourn alongside the bodies of victims of the ferry disaster on May 1, 2012. Indian authorities said that some bodies might have been washed downstream into Bangladesh.

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A shepherd leading his livestock along a road in Abbottabad, Pakistan on April 29, 2012.

Slideshow: After the raid: Inside bin Laden's compound

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U.S. forces found and killed the al-Qaida leader in the affluent Pakistani town of Abbottabad, where he had been living in a large compound.

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One year since U.S. commandos flew into this army town and killed Osama bin Laden, Pakistan has tried to close one of the most notorious chapters in its history, The Associated Press reports from Abbottabad. The compound that housed him for six years was razed to the ground, and the wives and children who shared the hideaway were flown to Saudi Arabia just last week.

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• US official acknowledges drone strikes, says civilian deaths 'exceedingly rare'
• More pictures of Abbottabad one year on

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Pakistani security officials in civilian clothing take position following an operation against alleged criminals in restive Lyari area of southern port city of Karachi on April 27, 2012.

Pakistani police mounted an operation against alleged criminals in a restive district of Karachi on Friday, EPA reports. The Lyari area has been the site of a gang war that has cost many lives in recent years. 

Pakistan's Express Tribune reported that police were targeted with rockets and hand grenades during the operation, and that three people including two policemen had been killed.

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A woman cries as security officials take up positions following an operation against alleged criminals in the restive Lyari area of Karachi on April 27, 2012.

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People stand outside their house during the police operation in Lyari, Karachi, on April 27, 2012.

Slideshow: Pakistan: A nation in turmoil

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Images of daily life, political pursuits, religious rites and deadly violence.

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