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In this pool photograph distributed by Russian state owned Sputnik agency Russia's President Vladimir Putin takes part in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the Alexandrovsky Garden near the Kremlin wall in Moscow on June 22, 2024. (Photo by Alexander KAZAKOV / POOL / AFP) (Photo by ALEXANDER KAZAKOV/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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The latest on Russia’s war in Ukraine
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
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
Sararat Rangsiwuthaporn is escorted by officers at a police station in Bangkok, Thailand on April 26, 2023.
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Thai court gives death penalty to woman accused of cyanide serial killings
Commuters step out in a foggy winter morning amid rising air pollution, on November 19, 2024 in Greater Noida, India.
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‘It’s impossible to breathe’: Life in the world’s most polluted city
SHANGHAI, CHINA - APRIL 25: The national flags of the United States and China flutter at the Fairmont Peace Hotel on April 25, 2024 in Shanghai, China. At the invitation of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit China from April 24 to April 26. (Photo by Wang Gang/VCG via Getty Images)
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Indian international students in the US outnumber Chinese for the first time in 15 years
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
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

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China

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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
Ford to cut 4,000 jobs in Europe
Trump might nix America as a climate tech leader. 5 charts show China winning that race
How different a commander in chief will Trump be?
Eight killed and 17 injured in mass stabbing in eastern China

India

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Mr. Rajnath Singh Indian Union Minister of Home Affairs and Indian ruling political party Bharatiya Janata Party senior leader at Meet the press after the end her Party Workers Internal Meeting for new plan coming Bengal Panchayat Election on April 14, 2017 in Kolkata, India.
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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
‘In so many ways, I broke so many barriers:’ Former Pepsi boss Indra Nooyi on life as a trailblazing CEO
China is building new villages on its remote Himalayan border. Some appear to have crossed the line

Japan

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UFOs, boats and castles: Surreal photos of Japan’s most peculiar ‘love hotels’
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

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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An official holds a tarantula that was seized from a South Korean national as he was attempting to smuggle hundreds of tarantulas and centipedes along with bullet ants out of the country at Jorge Chavez International Airport, in Lima, Peru, in this handout distributed on November 13, 2024. Servicio Nacional Forestal y de Fauna Silvestre (SERFOR)/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES.
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Smuggler arrested with 300 tarantulas strapped to his body
‘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

Southeast Asia

Protest groups stage a prayer rally at Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) for Mary Jane Veloso, a Filipino who was arrested and sentenced to death for smuggling heroin into Indonesia, in Pasay, Philippines, on September 6, 2022.
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Indonesia to return death-row drug convict to Philippines after yearslong appeal for mercy
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
Few have heard of this scenic train journey through Indonesia (and it’s a bargain, too)