India, Bangladesh Swap Border Enclaves, Settle Old Dispute

NEW DELHI (AP) -- At the stroke of midnight Friday, tens of thousands of stateless people who were stranded for decades along the poorly defined border between India and Bangladesh will finally get to choose their citizenship, as the two countries swapped more than 150 pockets of land to settle the demarcation line dividing them....

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