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  • A worker at a factory in Pyongyang, North Korea

    How?North Korea’s lucrative trade in human hair is helping it skirt the impact of sanctions

  • Participants march in Bangkok Pride. Thailand is on the brink of legalising same-sex marriage.

    Thailand on the brink of legalising same-sex marriage in historic vote

    If the bill passes, Thailand will become just the third territory in Asia ? after Taiwan and Nepal ? to legalise same-sex marriage
  • Jens Stoltenberg speaks at a podium

    Row?as Nato chief hints at talks to increase availability of nuclear weapons

    Jens Stoltenberg accused of ‘escalation of tension’ as he warns of growing threat from Russia and China

  • Vladimir Putin to visit North Korea as he seeks further military support

  • Governor installs crowd control gate on Mount Fuji to limit tourists

  • Consensus or division? How Modi will manage Indian coalition government

  • Global spending on nuclear weapons up 13% in record rise

  • Drone footage shows mudslides after heavy rain in southern China ? video

  • India: author Arundhati Roy to be prosecuted over 2010 Kashmir remarks

  • Russian ties and cheap tech: G7 leaders unequivocal in criticism of China

Asia Pacific

  • Sophia Huang Xueqin, a freelance journalist who reported on China’s MeToo movement and the Hong Kong democracy protests, holds up a sign saying #MeToo

    China
    China #MeToo journalist sentenced to five years in jail, supporters say

  • Chung Hsing private high school in Taipei, Taiwan, which closed in 2019 due to low enrolment. Dozens of schools, colleges and universities are closing their doors due to population decline.

    Taiwan
    Empty classrooms, silent halls: Taiwan’s declining birthrate forces schools to close

  • Kim Jong-un and Putin composite image

    North Korea
    US?and South Korea sound warning amid reports Putin is headed to North Korea

  • Chinese Coast Guard vessels fire water cannons towards a Philippine resupply vessel Unaizah on May 4 as it made its way to the disputed Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea

    Philippines
    Philippines increases South China Sea patrols as Beijing set to roll out new trespass laws

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South & central Asia

  • Gurpatwant Singh Pannun

    US news
    Indian suspect in plot to kill Sikh separatist pleads not guilty in US court

  • Ukraine

    Rights and freedom
    ‘Know how loved you were’: fathers write to their children from the frontline

  • A girl in a hijab puts her hand over her face as she cries

    Rights and freedom
    ‘Nobody is coming to help us’: Afghan teenage girls on life without school

  • An Indian woman squats down beside a big pile of clay and a mould, with stacks of finished bricks behind her

    Global development
    Too?ill to work, too poor to get better: how debt traps families working at India’s kilns

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Pictures & video

  • Modi claims Indian election victory despite likely loss of majority ? video

  • A man looks through the window of a property which has the slogan and logo of a political party painted on it and a bicycle resting against it

    India’s ‘sinking island’ looks to election for survival ? in pictures

    For many on Ghoramara, the general election is about the climate crisis and survival. The island, 150km south of Kolkata, has lost nearly half its area to soil erosion in the past two decades and could disappear if a solution is not found
  • Two acquitted defendants of sixteen pro-democracy campaigners had denied charges spoke to journalists

    'We see everyone's love': acquitted defendants after Hong Kong national security trial ? video

    Two acquitted defendants of sixteen pro-democracy campaigners had denied charges spoke to journalists
  • Hundreds of Indian farmers who have been protesting outside Delhi endured a savage heatwave

    Protesting Indian farmers endure severe heatwave ? video

  • A volunteer distributes drinking water to train passengers on a hot summer day at the Jalandhar Cantonment railway station in Jalandhar

    Record-breaking heatwave hits Delhi as India swelters ? in pictures

  • Don't refund your tickets yet! Here are the facts behind turbulence

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    Is?turbulence getting worse? And where were the worst flight paths in 2023 ? video

  • Taiwan scrambled fighter jets as China held a second day of military drills targeting the island, this time testing its military’s ability to 'seize power'

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    Taiwan deploys jets to monitor Chinese drills around island ? video

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