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  • Photo of 100-day-old Sohn Yang-young or Kimchi 1 taken after the family settled on Geoje Island after evacuating from Hungnam.
    Charlie Miller/CNN
    Naval nativity: As their mothers fled North Korean forces 75 years ago, five Christmas babies were born at sea
  • Ruby Verma Centre. This is India, and that’s nearly a billion people whose details need to be verified before they’re allowed to participate in the world’s largest democracy. Across the country, tens of thousands of civil servants are rushing to input voter details into a database. By hand. And the deadline is Friday for India's most populous state of Uttar Pradesh. The last list dates from 2003 and authorities say it needs cleaning up to reflect mass migration from the countryside to the cities, the accumulation of deceased voters and to remove those on the list illegally.
    Esha Mitra/CNN
    Half a billion voters. One list. Just seven weeks to clean it up
  • North Korea's leader Kim JOng Un inspected the country's nuclear-powered submarine, claimed to be 8,700 ton, as he called Seoul's nuclear-powered submarine development plan "an offensive act"
    KCNA
    North Korea reveals new images of its first ‘nuclear-powered’ submarine
  • A US military helicopter flies over the Panama-flagged Centuries, which was intercepted by the US Coast Guard in the Caribbean Sea on December 20.
    Department of Homeland Security/Handout/Reuters
    China has condemned Trump’s Venezuela blockade. But it may also see some upsides to a new era of gunboat diplomacy
  • Tokyo Electric Power Company's Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant in Kashiwazaki, Niigata, Japan on June 17, 2025.
    The Asahi Shimbun/Getty Images
    Japan to restart the world’s biggest nuclear power plant, 15 years after Fukushima disaster
  • People shop at a market ahead of Christmas, in Manila, on December 20, 2024.
    Lisa Marie David/Reuters
    While most of the world is preparing for Christmas, the Philippines has been at it for months
  • Handout image from South Korea's Navy of the Jang Yeongsil submarine that launched on October 22, 2025 in Geoje, South Korea.
    South Korea Navy
    US submarines are outnumbered in the Pacific. South Korea has a plan to help
  • An excavator digs a pit to bury the carcass an Asiatic wild elephant being removed from a railway track after a speeding train hit a herd of wild elephant in Changjurai village in Assam, India, on Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025.
    Anupam Nath/AP
    High-speed passenger train kills 7 elephants crossing railway tracks in northeast India
  • Taiwanese investigators secure the perimeter after several smoke grenades were set off inside the Taipei Main Station in Taipei, Taiwan, on Friday.
    Ritchie B Tongo/EPA/Shutterstock
    Knife-wielding attacker kills three in central Taipei

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  • Wildlife conservation photographer Sebastian Kennerknecht in Malaysia
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    Video The conservation couple chasing every wild cat on Earth 3:27
  • <p>A police officer hailed as a hero for shooting dead one of the attackers responsible for the Bondi Beach massacre has been identified by Australian media as Detective Senior Constable Cesar Barraza. He is believed to have shot dead Sajid Akram, 50, according to the Sydney Morning Herald and CNN affiliates 9News and 7News.</p>
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    Video Police officer hailed as a hero for shooting dead one of the Bondi Beach attackers 2:40
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    Video What we know about the victims of the Bondi Beach massacre 2:38
  • Funeral of Bondi Beach attack victim
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    Video Funerals underway as Sydney’s Jewish community confronts rising antisemitism 3:26
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    Video Suspected gunmen in Bondi Beach shooting were father and son, police say 1:26
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    Video Israeli PM says Australia poured “oil on the flames of antisemitism” through inaction 1:22
  • CNN affiliate Seven Network Australia shared an interview with the cousin of the man who tackled Bondi Beach gunman.
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    Video “He’s a hero, 100%,’ says cousin of man who tackled Bondi Beach gunman 0:52
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    Video Rabbi says his nephew was hiding while bullets whizzed by in Australia shooting 2:48
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  • The logo of online video service operator Kuaishou Technology is seen at the China Digital Entertainment Expo and Conference, also known as ChinaJoy, in Shanghai on July 30, 2021.
    Aly Song/Reuters
    China’s TikTok rival flooded with porn and violent video in cyberattack
  • From AI to Venezuela: Why 2026 is a hinge year for global power
  • US bans new foreign drone models in a blow to Chinese giant DJI
  • Hung jury ends trial of ex-New York governors’ aide accused of selling influence to China
  • US pursuing another tanker ship near Venezuela amid Trump blockade

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  • Tourists visit the Taj Mahal at sunrise in Agra, India, on October 18, 2025.
    PUNIT PARANJPE/AFP/AFP via Getty Images
    A Bollywood film is turning India’s monument to love into a symbol of division
  • A trade deal with Washington and a warm welcome for Putin: Can India have it both ways?
  • Lethal smog is back in the world’s most polluted capital. Residents have had enough
  • India arrests Kashmir resident in connection with deadly Red Fort bomb attack
  • Why an email about cows is intensifying concerns about academic freedom in India
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  • Israelis look at troops standing guard during a weekly settlers' tour in Hebron, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on December 13, 2025.
    Mussa Qawasma/Reuters
    Israel’s approval of new West Bank settlements condemned by 12 European countries, Canada and Japan
  • Why the weirdest sea level changes on Earth are happening off the coast of Japan
  • These Japanese wrestlers throw down in latex and glitter
  • United flight to Tokyo returns to Dulles after losing power in an engine and igniting brush around runway
  • ‘On bear patrol’: Inside Japan’s fightback against a surge of deadly bear attacks

North Korea

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  • North Korean leader Kim Jong Un embraces a soldier during a welcoming ceremony for members of the 528th Engineer Regiment after they returned from an overseas mission, at the April 25 Cultural and Tourism Center in Pyongyang, North Korea on December 12, 2025, in this picture released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on December 13, 2025.
    KCNA/Reuters
    North Korea’s Kim Jong Un hails troops returning from Russia
  • North Korean operatives running fake job portal targeting US AI firms
  • The phone notes that reveal an alleged plan to bait Kim Jong Un with drones
  • 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

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  • An Afghan Taliban fighter sits on a tank near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border October 15, in Spin Boldak, Kandahar Province, following exchanges of fire between Pakistani and Afghan forces in Afghanistan.
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    Pakistan and Afghanistan trade fire along the border but no casualties are reported
  • ‘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

South Korea

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  • Students wait for the start of the annual college entrance examinations at an exam hall on November 13, in Seoul, South Korea.
    Kim Kong-Ji/Pool//AFP/Getty Images
    This college entrance exam was so hard an official had to resign. Could you ace these questions?
  • South Korea’s aging population finds comfort, care in ‘robo-grandma’ dolls
  • New Zealand woman jailed for life over murder of her two children found in storage locker suitcases
  • US Air Force Reaper drone crashes off South Korea
  • South Korean man gets life sentence over blackmail ring that sexually exploited or abused hundreds

Southeast Asia

  • A man takes a bath amid the remains of a community where houses were swept in the floods brought on by Typhoon Kalmaegi in Talisay, Cebu, Philippines on November 6, 2025.
    Eloisa Lopez/Reuters
    The disaster-prone Philippines invested billions in flood control. Then officials looted the funds
  • The Kremlin’s brazen tactics: Russia’s shadow fleet is doubling as a spy asset, intelligence sources say
  • Bondi attack suspects had no visitors and barely left hotel during month-long Philippines stay, employee says
  • Celebrated ex-CNN correspondent Peter Arnett, who reported from Vietnam and Gulf War, has died
  • Herbal compresses have been used for thousands of years. Researchers in Thailand are exploring the science behind them
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