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AP Photos: Naked pot-smoking sect grows at Indian Hindu festPRAYAGRAJ, India (AP) — At the world's largest pilgrimage in Prayagraj in northern India, tens of millions of Hindu faithful travel to the sacred sangam — the confluence of three holy rivers — to take a dip. The Kumbh Mela, or pitcher festival, is a series of baths by Hindu sadhus and sadhvis, holy men and women, and other pilgrims who believe the ritual cleanses them of their sins and ends the process of repeated reincarnation. For some, stripping down for a holy dip also signifies the stripping away of the material world.
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AP Photos: Editor selections from the past week in AsiaYoung Buddhist novices attend a dance festival as part of Tibetan New Year celebrations in Kathmandu, Nepal. In other images from the Asia-Pacific region this week, South Korean high school seniors clad in traditional attire bow during a joint graduation and coming-of-age ceremony in Seoul. Thousands of students and faculty from the Catholic-run St. Scholastica's College in Manila, Philippines, flash No. 1 sign at the end of a mass dance performance as part of a campaign to combat violence against women and children on Valentine's Day.
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AP Interview: Philippine journalist sees threat to democracyMANILA, Philippines (AP) — The head of a Philippine online news site who was arrested by government agents in a libel case accused President Rodrigo Duterte's administration on Thursday of acting like a dictatorship and using the law as a weapon to muzzle dissent. 'What we're seeing ... is a level of impunity that I frankly haven't seen, and I've been a journalist for more than 30 some odd years,' Maria Ressa told The Associated Press on Thursday after posting bail in a Manila court.
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AP Explains: Catalans appear at 'trial of century' in SpainMADRID (AP) — It's being billed as Spain's 'trial of the century': A dozen politicians and activists are in in the Supreme Court on Tuesday stemming from their involvement in Catalonia's push for independence in 2017. The defendants face charges including rebellion and sedition in a proceeding that is being televised live and expected to last at least three months. It could set the course for the Catalan secession movement and the tone of national politics for years to come. HOW DID WE GET HERE?
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AP Was There: Exclusive interview with serial killerEDITOR'S NOTE — On July 24, 1979, serial killer Ted Bundy was convicted by a jury in Miami of the murder of two sorority sisters in a rampage a year earlier. Three days later, Associated Press reporter Dan Sewell sat down with Bundy in the Dade County Jail for an exclusive interview. The AP is republishing Sewell's story as the 30th anniversary of his execution is marked by a new Netflix documentary series on the killer (available now) and last month's premiere of a biopic about Bundy — played by Zac Efron —at the Sundance Film Festival. Killer confident after conviction
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