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Thousands have availed of the visa amnesty programme at the Indian Consulate in Dubai. Consulate General of India, Dubai

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Shigeru Ishiba attends a special parliamentary session in which he was re-elected as Japan's Prime Minister in Tokyo on Monday. EPA

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