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  • A woman worships a cow as Indian Hindus offer prayers to the River Ganges, holy to them during the Ganga Dussehra festival in Allahabad, India, on June 8, 2014.
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    Why an email about cows is intensifying concerns about academic freedom in India
  • Tourists take pictures near Japan's Mount Fuji last month.
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    China warns citizens against Japan travel as Taiwan spat escalates
  • Crowds of people on Bangla Street in Phuket Island, Thailand on November 25, 2024.
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    Russian alleged cyber-hacker faces extradition to US after arrest in Thailand
  • Shipping containers from Hede Shipping, from the Chinese state-owned Hebei Port Group, are seen stacked at the Port of Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California on October 13, 2025.
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    China used its trade juggernaut to withstand US tariffs. Can it keep its edge?
  • Newly elected leader of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Yoshihide Suga (C) is applauded after he was elected as Japan's prime minister by the Lower House of parliament in Tokyo on September 16, 2020. - Japan's parliament votes on September 16 for the country's next prime minister, with powerful cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga all but assured the top job, as Shinzo Abe ends his record-breaking tenure. (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP) (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images)
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  • In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chen Zhongrui, a Shenzhou-20 astronaut, is carried out from the Shenzhou-21 spaceship's return capsule after it touched down on Earth at the Dongfeng landing site in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous region on Friday, Nov. 14, 2025. (Li Zhipeng/Xinhua via AP)
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    Chinese astronauts arrive home after suspected debris strike delays return to Earth
  • Students wait for the start of the annual college entrance examinations at an exam hall in Seoul, South Korea, November 13, 2025.
    Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters
    South Korea bans flights as 500,000 take crucial university admission test
  • North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un before a meeting with US President Donald Trump on the south side of the Military Demarcation Line that divides North and South Korea, in the Joint Security Area (JSA) of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized zone (DMZ) on June 30, 2019.
    Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images
    The phone notes that reveal an alleged plan to bait Kim Jong Un with drones
  • Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, left, shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the start of a meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea on October 31, 2025.
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    Trump’s trade war is pushing Canada closer to China

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  • Members of the Israeli special forces check the apparent remains of a ballistic missile lying on the ground following missile attacks by Iran in June.
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    US lawmakers demand answers from Trump administration over Chinese chemical shipments to Iran following CNN reporting
  • How Japan’s new prime minister has brought China’s ‘wolf warriors’ back out
  • Former aide to two NY governors, accused of being Chinese agent, goes on trial for money laundering and fraud
  • Chinese ‘cryptoqueen’ who had royal aspirations jailed in UK over $6.6 billion Bitcoin scam
  • Two of China’s most popular gay dating apps have disappeared from app stores

India

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  • A layer of smog can be seen in the early hours of the morning at Wazirabad, in New Delhi, India, on October 18, 2025.
    Sanchit Khanna/Hindustan Times/Getty Images
    After festival of lights, New Delhi plunged into toxic darkness and world’s most polluted air
  • The last of India’s mythic superstars
  • Trump claimed India had agreed to stop buying Russian oil. New Delhi says it knows nothing about it
  • A newborn baby was found buried alive. The reason may have been her gender
  • Taliban minister confronted by rare challenge on trip abroad: women journalists
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Japan

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  • A bear attack in a supermarket in Gunma, Japan, on October 7, 2025
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    US State Department warns Americans in Japan: Watch out for bears
  • The world’s best hotel for 2025 is a waterfront skyscraper
  • Facing a spike in deadly bear attacks, Japan turns to the military and drones that bark
  • From hunger to luxury: The story behind the world’s most expensive rice
  • Japan’s new leader Takaichi says she wants to meet North Korea’s Kim Jong Un

North Korea

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  • Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol arrives at a court to attend a hearing to review his arrest warrant requested by special prosecutors in Seoul, South Korea, July 9, 2025.
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    South Korea special prosecutor indicts former President Yoon on charges of aiding an enemy state
  • North Korea’s longtime ceremonial head of state Kim Yong Nam has died, Pyongyang says
  • Why is there so much talk about nuclear weapons this week?
  • Trump instructs Pentagon to start testing nuclear weapons ‘on an equal basis’ with Russia and China
  • Trump has departed Asia without meeting Kim Jong Un. North Koreans don’t seem to care

Pakistan

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  • An MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft flies over Creech Air Force Base, Nevada, on April 15. Most of the strikes against alleged drug traffickers have been carried out using MQ-9 Reaper drones.
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    ‘Enemy KIA’: Trump revives playbook from Afghanistan for campaign targeting alleged drug boats
  • Pakistan parliament approves more powers for army chief, curbs top court
  • Two blasts a day apart in India and Pakistan’s capitals fray regional nerves in an already tense year
  • At least 12 killed in Islamabad suicide attack – the most deadly assault in the Pakistani capital since 2008
  • Pakistan and Afghanistan agree to new ceasefire after more than a week of deadly clashes

South Korea

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  • This image from video provided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via DVIDS shows manufacturing plant employees waiting to have their legs shackled at the Hyundai Motor Group’s electric vehicle plant, in Ellabell, Georgia, on September 4, 2025.
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    Some Korean workers detained in Georgia immigration raid have returned to their jobs at Hyundai site
  • The White House has shared images of Xi Jinping that most Chinese don’t see at home
  • China’s Xi in the limelight at Pacific summit with Trump conspicuous by his absence
  • Three billionaires went out for chicken and beer, and paid for everyone’s meal
  • The US and China are close to a landmark trade agreement. Here are the wildest moments leading up to it

Southeast Asia

  • An oil tanker passes through the Strait of Hormuz.
    Hamad I Mohammed/Reuters
    Iran confirms seizure of tanker carrying petrochemical cargo
  • Trump’s Thailand-Cambodia peace agreement is falling apart after Cambodian villager killed in fresh clashes
  • Thailand ‘halts’ peace agreement with Cambodia hailed by Trump after landmine explosion injures troops
  • He was a US-backed dictator who led sweeping massacres. Why is he now being named a national hero?
  • Near dozen dead in Thai-Malaysia search after Rohingya migrant boat sinks
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