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The American and Chinese flags wave at Genting Snow Park, February 2, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China.
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National security officials meet with US telecom execs to share intel on Chinese cyber-espionage campaign, White House says
Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte, left, and President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
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Philippine vice president says she would have Marcos assassinated if she is killed
KYIV, UKRAINE - AUGUST 18: A view of debris of residential buildings damaged following Russian forces attacked Kyiv with 2 ballistic missiles KN-23 in outside of Kyiv, Ukraine on August 18, 2024. (Photo by Danylo Antoniuk/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Ukraine is being hit with a surge of attacks using North Korean missiles. Western components help make it possible
This screengrab shows damage on a rehabilitation centre for people with disabilities, following a Russian attack in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro on November 21, 2024.
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Russia’s use of a nuclear-capable missile is a clear departure from Cold War doctrine of deterrence
Zhong Shanshan, founder of bottled water company Nongfu Spring, pictured in 2013
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China’s richest man blasts tech giants and government inaction in rare rebuke
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UFOs, boats and castles: Surreal photos of Japan’s most peculiar ‘love hotels’
Indian international students in the US outnumber Chinese for the first time in 15 years
Indonesia to return death-row drug convict to Philippines after yearslong appeal for mercy
Ford to cut 4,000 jobs in Europe
Smuggler arrested with 300 tarantulas strapped to his body
Trump’s turn to bask in Musk’s reflected glory
The disputed region of India that bakes bread to rival France
Hong Kong hears from jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai for the first time in four years at his trial
Stealth fighters and a massive mothership drone: The high-tech weapons China unveiled at its largest airshow
Ukraine fires US-made longer-range missiles into Russia for the first time
Joshua Wong shouts ‘I love Hong Kong’ as more than 40 leading democracy leaders handed lengthy prison terms in mass trial

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China

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A construction worker builds petrochemical equipment parts at Lanshi Heavy Machinery Co., LTD., Hongshiya Street, in Qingdao, China, on October 31, 2024. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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China is armed and ready for trade war 2.0 with Donald Trump
China rebuffs meeting with US defense secretary
The $50 trillion guardrail on Trump
Car crashes into people outside primary school in central China: state media
Weight-loss drug Wegovy launched in China

India

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Doctors stage a protest demanding security and the safety of doctors, at Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital in Chennai
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Stabbing renews debate over India hospital safety months after rape and murder of trainee doctor
‘It’s impossible to breathe’: Life in the world’s most polluted city
India’s successful test of hypersonic missile puts it among elite group
Hospital fire kills 10 newborn babies in northern India
US returns looted antiquities worth $10 million to India

Japan

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U.S. Navy <em>Clemson</em>-class destroyer USS <em>Edsall</em> (DD-219) (misidentified as "HMS Pope") being sunk on 1 March 1942 south of Java.
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Wreck of US Navy’s heroic ‘dancing mouse’ WWII warship found off Australia
Long-lost ocean worms photobomb tiny seahorses, surprising scientists
American tourist arrested for allegedly defacing gate at Tokyo shrine
Japanese Princess Yuriko, oldest member of imperial family, dies at 101
Nissan shares slump after it announces 9,000 job cuts and a plan to slash production

North Korea

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meets with leading officials of the Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang, North Korea, in this photo released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on September 10, 2024. KCNA via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. REUTERS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THIS IMAGE. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. SOUTH KOREA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN SOUTH KOREA.
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FBI seizes websites that North Koreans allegedly used to impersonate American companies
Biden authorizes Ukraine to use long-range US weapons in Russia
Biden’s green light for Ukraine to use ATACMS in Russia just raised the stakes in a war Trump will inherit
Bad news mounts for Ukraine across the frontlines. But Russia is under pressure too
North Korea to mass produce self-detonating explosive drones, state media reports

Pakistan

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Local residents and volunteers gather and wait for the arrival of victims of gunmen firing incident on passenger vehicles, at a hospital in Parachinar, in Kurram district of Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Dilawar Hussain)
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At least 42 killed as gunmen open fire on vehicles carrying Shiites in northwest Pakistan
Toxic smog in Pakistan is so bad you can see it from space
Dozens killed in Pakistan train station suicide blast, as militants claim responsibility
Pakistan province calls for ‘climate diplomacy’ with India as record smog chokes major city
Thick smog chokes northern India and eastern Pakistan ahead of Diwali

South Korea

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Hwang Dong-hyuk attends Netflix's FYSEE Showcase Photocall for "Squid Game" Season 2 at TUDUM Theater on November 03, 2024 in Hollywood, California.
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‘Squid Game’ creator Hwang Dong-hyuk put his actual teeth into making the show
After Trump’s win, some women are considering the 4B movement
South Korean actor Song Jae-lim dead at 39
South Korean president takes up golf again to prepare for Trump’s second term
Trump claims Kim Jong Un ‘misses’ him. But he faces a very different North Korean leader this time around

Southeast Asia

A Bajau Laut freediver swims amongst a large school of jack fish shoaling on a reef at Sipidan Island in the Celebes Sea, Sabah, Malysia.
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They’ve sailed across Southeast Asia for centuries. Now, these sea nomads are being forced to live on land
Thai court gives death penalty to woman accused of cyanide serial killings
Weary Philippines cleans up after Super Typhoon Man-yi becomes fourth major storm to hit in the past fortnight
Duterte returns as Philippines’ political clans wage ‘a fight to the death’
The ancient UNESCO-listed city that’s considered the cradle of Thai culture