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There's something striking about Southeast Asian countries: More than any of the countless other places where I've pulled out my camera, people like this rickshaw driver on the Indonesian island of Java, would naturally just smile back at me.

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Trump Indicted, India Temple Collapses, Paltrow Cleared

Rescue operations under way after the well covering at a temple in Indore, in central India, collapsed, killing at least 35.

Emma Albright, Inès Mermat & Anne-Sophie Goninet

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Welcome to Friday, where Donald Trump becomes the first U.S. president to face criminal charges, at least 35 are killed after a well covering collapses at a temple in India, and Gwyneth Paltrow’s bizarre trial comes to a close. Meanwhile, Nicaraguan publication Divergentes takes the temperature of the clubbing scene, impacted by both the country’s Sandinista past and emigration.

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