Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Brunei on Tuesday, following an invitation from Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, the world’s second-longest reigning monarch, after the late Queen Elizabeth II.

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Pope Francis said on Friday politicians who rage against homosexuals, gypsies and Jews remind him of Hitler. "It is not coincidental that at times there is a resurgence of symbols typical of Nazism," Francis said in an address to participants of an international conference on criminal law.

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Brunei's sultan has announced death by stoning for gay sex and adultery will not be enforced after a global backlash, but critics Monday called for harsh sharia laws to be abandoned entirely.

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